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Mass Matters
Mass Matters
- Journal pages 24-25
- Copy and complete the steps in your journal.
- You should have 3 sections - Hook, Part 1, Part 2
- Set up your journal like the picture below.
HOOK - Newton Knew that Mass Matter
Activity Instructions:
1. Blow up a balloon and tie it off.
2. Find the mass of each item (balloon, steel ball, clay ball). Weigh the mass (g) of each item and record in your notebook.
3. Use your thumb and finger to flick each the balloon, clay ball, steel ball, forcing it to move as far as possible. USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLICK FORCE on all 3 items!
4. Illustrate Each example. Be sure to draw a labeled diagram for each of your 3 tests and show the motion with force arrows.
5. Complete the following questions
QUESTIONS:
A. WHICH ONE - THE BALLOON, STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL - RESISTED CHANGE MORE? IN OTHER WORDS, WHICH ONE HAD MORE INERTIA?
B. WHICH ONE - THE BALLOON, STEEL BALL, OR CLAY BALL - HAS THE MOST MASS? DOES INERTIA AND MASS MAKE A MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN HOW FAR THE OBJECT GOES? EXPLAIN.
PART 1 ~
page 25 (top half)
1. Title the top portion of your notebook
2. Put the wooden block on top of the car
3. Push the car with the wooden block on top into a book.
4. Observe the motion of the car and the WOODEN BLOCK.
5. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 1 just as the car strikes the barrier. Show any motion with force arrows.
6. Using complete sentences: Describe the motion of the car and the wooden block underneath the diagram.
7. Using complete sentences: EXPLAIN how INERTIA affected the motion of the wooden block when the car hits the barrier.
2. Put the wooden block on top of the car
3. Push the car with the wooden block on top into a book.
4. Observe the motion of the car and the WOODEN BLOCK.
5. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 1 just as the car strikes the barrier. Show any motion with force arrows.
6. Using complete sentences: Describe the motion of the car and the wooden block underneath the diagram.
7. Using complete sentences: EXPLAIN how INERTIA affected the motion of the wooden block when the car hits the barrier.
Part 2 ~
page 25 (bottom half)
1. Title the bottom portion of your notebook
2. Put the wooden block on top of the car and secure it with a piece of tape.
3. Push the car with the wooden block taped on top into a book.
4. Observe the motion of the car and the wooden block.
5. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 2, just as the car strikes the barrier. Show any motion with force arrows.
6. Using complete sentences: Describe the motion of the car and the wooden block underneath the diagram.
Part 2 ~
page 25 (bottom half)
1. Title the bottom portion of your notebook
2. Put the wooden block on top of the car and secure it with a piece of tape.
3. Push the car with the wooden block taped on top into a book.
4. Observe the motion of the car and the wooden block.
5. Draw a labeled diagram of Setup 2, just as the car strikes the barrier. Show any motion with force arrows.
6. Using complete sentences: Describe the motion of the car and the wooden block underneath the diagram.