Acceleration
Forces and Motion

Supporting an appreciation of instantaneous events

Teaching Guidance for 14-16 Supporting Physics Teaching

A sequence of more and more precisely defined events

Teacher Tip: It might help this discussion to have a number of movie clips, in the first of which the movement is blurred, because the exposure time for each image was too long. In other clips the image can be sharper, gradually approximating to an instant.

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Accumulating changes - Teaching and learning issues

The Teaching and Learning Issues presented here explain the challenges faced in...

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Acceleration
Forces and Motion Supporting Physics Teaching

Noticing and recording

The first thing you need to do in developing physics is to bring a phenomenon into focus, separating it out from its...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Acceleration
Forces and Motion PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Distinguishing between velocity and acceleration

Demonstration: This experiment allows you to focus on what happens when a constant force is applied to a trolley: its velocity...

Practical Activity 14-16

Acceleration
Forces and Motion Supporting Physics Teaching

Relative motion and PoV

Here students get to see a process from a second point of view, moving with respect to the first, and so get practice in...

Classroom Activity 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Forces and Motion

Many students think that an object's acceleration is always in the direction in which the object is moving

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RESEARCH REVIEW Forces and Motion

Many students think that, if an object has a speed of zero (even instantaneously), it has no acceleration

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RESEARCH REVIEW Forces and Motion

Many students cannot correctly identify the forces acting on an object that has been set in motion but is slowing down

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Acceleration
appears in the relation F=ma a=dv/dt a=-(w^2)x
has the special case Centripetal Acceleration Uniform Acceleration Non-Uniform Acceleration
is used in analyses relating to Terminal Velocity
can be represented by Motion Graphs
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