Air Resistance
1) Engage: Sky Diving
Some Questions to Ponder as you watch:
- How can the skydiver control his speed?
- How can the skydiver control his direction when falling?
- How do they all fall at the same rate?
- What forces are acting on the skydiver?
- What happens to the forces when he pulls his parachute?
2) Explore: Force Diagrams Review
Mr. C will guide the force diagram discussions.
What are forces acting on the following:
1) Person standing on the ground
2) Person in a plane
3) Person falling through air
4) Person with a parachute.
What are forces acting on the following:
1) Person standing on the ground
2) Person in a plane
3) Person falling through air
4) Person with a parachute.
3) Explore: Air Resistance Mini Lab
Part 1: Using the materials provided, determine one factor that affects Air Resistance. You must ensure a fair test. You must also have data to show (at least a chart with categorical data)
Part 2: Think of your hand out the window when riding in a car. What two things affect how much force pushes your hand back?
Part 2: Think of your hand out the window when riding in a car. What two things affect how much force pushes your hand back?
5) Sky Diving: Explained
Use the video to help explain what happens in skydive.
4) Explain: Air Resistance/Terminal Velocity
You will take Cornell Notes Outlining and Summarizing the information found Here. Remember to shorten the information in an outline and to draw pictures to help you understand. Key words also are to go in the left side.
6) Evaluate
Once you finish with your Cornell Notes, answer these questions in a google doc labeled "G8-4 Air Resistance NAME"
1) What are two factors that affect the amount of air resistance?
2) What is terminal velocity? How are the forces acting during terminal velocity?
3)Draw three free body diagrams of a parachutists
5) Why is there no skydiving on the moon? Explain in detail and reasoning?
6) Which has more air resistance, a large truck, a school van, or a F1 Sports Car?
1) What are two factors that affect the amount of air resistance?
2) What is terminal velocity? How are the forces acting during terminal velocity?
3)Draw three free body diagrams of a parachutists
- A skydiver sitting in a plane
- A skydiver falling at terminal velocity
- A skydiver with his parachute out
5) Why is there no skydiving on the moon? Explain in detail and reasoning?
6) Which has more air resistance, a large truck, a school van, or a F1 Sports Car?
5) Elaborate
1) Use the application to find how air resistance affects the flight time and flight path of an object. Also find out what the drag coefficient is. Phet Projectile Motion Link
2) Look up aerodynamics on cars, planes, cyclists, etc.
3) Felix Baumgartner's Record Breaking Fall
2) Look up aerodynamics on cars, planes, cyclists, etc.
3) Felix Baumgartner's Record Breaking Fall