Physics is about studying how the universe works, and since you're in it, it's really about understanding you and the world you live in. Hopefully you'll find this very interesting! Seek to improve your learning by polishing each portfolio objective, each online text assignment, and then by noticing physics in your life!

Thursday, September 18, 2014

5 Ways of analyzing motion

In keeping with our philosophy of multiple perspectives of describing motion, you'll be polishing your techniques in five different methods of representing motion.  Those five are (in no particular order):
    1. Kinesthetic (can you make your body or something else like a sphero) do the motion
    2. Verbally (can you use words to fully describe the motion)
    3. Stacked Graphing (position and velocity for now...)
    4. Algebraic Analysis (using models we have developed like v=dx/dt)
    5. Motion Mapping (Lots of Dots and Arrows showing positions and vectors)
We will be practicing these in oh so many ways this year, but for you to demonstrate mastery of these techniques, you will need to show you can do them for each of the motion graph match samples in Logger Pro. (b,c,d,e,f,g)