Please write your answers on this sheet and follow the step-by step instructions.

1)  Read and study the Student Guide sections titled Speed!, Displacement and Path, and Path and Displacement.

2)  Go to Worksheet 1 at the end of the Path and Displacement section and answer the following questions (Remember to include direction in your answers):

 Question 1____________________________

 Question 2____________________________

3)  Read and study the section titled Speed and Average Velocity.

4)  Go to Worksheet 2 and click on the web site address that is given.

5)  After reviewing that web page, go Back to Worksheet 2 and answer the following questions:

     a)  Which car goes faster? ___________________________

     b)  How can you tell which car goes faster only by looking at the graph?

     c)  Make a table of the data that shows each position and time.  Calculate the velocity of the red car and the blue car from their positions on the graph at different times and include this as a 3rd column in your table.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6)  Go Back to the Student Guide section on Speed and Constant Velocity and click on the web address given: http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/insti/lesson1.html

7)  Read and study "Describing Motion with Words".  DON'T LOOK AT THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE ATTEMPTED YOUR OWN ANSWERS! Record your answer and then the correct answer for each question on this page.

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8)  Go Back to the Sudent Guide and read the section titled Acceleration. Click on the web address that is given: http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/insti/lesson2.html

7)  Read and study "Describing Motion with Diagrams".  DON'T LOOK AT THE ANSWER UNTIL YOU HAVE ATTEMPTED YOUR OWN ANSWER! Record your answer and then the correct answer for each question on this page.

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8)  Go Back to the section titled Acceleration and click on Worksheet 3.

9)  Study the diagram and construct a position vs. time graph on the graph paper given to you.

10)  Answer the following questions:

 a) What is the difference between red and green?
 
 

 b) What is similar between red and green?
 
 

 c) What is the difference between violet and blue?
 
 

 d) What is similar between violet and blue?
 
 

 e) Compare what you obtained (the shape of the curves) with what you see on http://www.american.edu/IRVINE/bardhyl/DimKin2.htm. Write a descriptions of how your graph is similar and/or different than the  ones at this web site.
 
 
 
 
 
 

11)  If you have time, go Back to the Student Guide and click on next module.  Read the sections on Acceleration and Free Fall and then click on
the web address listed: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9208/efff.html

12)  Read through this information and write a summary of what you learned about acceleration and free fall on the back of this page.