1/29 HS Physics update and homework due 2/5

Hi folks, 

To make sure the students really have a full grasp of the concepts we've been working with this year, I gave the students a "Newton's Scavenger Hunt" today where they had to use things in the classroom to exemplify the concepts.  They really worked well taking their knowledge and applying it, in order to show me how each concept worked. I've included the questions below if you want to take a look.  I also included a copy of today's quiz.  It's a great overview of everything we've studied so far this year.

Homework for this week is to find a video game, a movie or a book and use it to provide examples of the following concepts. Feel free to have fun with this and if you can find an example of how physics is "wrong" in the movie, game or book, (cough, cough, the most recent Star Wars)  that may be even more fun!  You can use the same or different books, movies, etc. if you wish.

1. Impulse

2. Momentum

3. Impulse causing a momentum change.

4. Conservation of momentum.

5. Newton's 3rd Law

6. Newton's 2nd Law

7.  Inertia

8. Acceleration (lots of good wrong examples here)

9.  Gravity (good wrong examples here too)

Questions from the scavenger hunt (just for reference, you don't need to do anything with them).

Newton's Scavenger Hunt of DOOOOOM!!!!

1. Show me an example of Newton's First Law.
2. Find the velocity of something.
3. Show me an example of Newton's Second Law.  Be sure to tell me what the M, the F and the A is.
4. Show me an example of Newton's Third Law.
5. Show me an example of acceleration.
6. Show me an example of impulse.
7. Show me an example of something with equal outside forces acting on it.
8. Show me an example of momentum.
9. Prove that gravity pulls on things differently.
10. Show me an example of something that has a net force acting on it.
11. Show me an example of conservation of momentum.
12. Show me that gravity doesn't care what direction something is moving in.
13. Show me an example of impulse changing momentum.
14. Show me an example of constant velocity.
15. Show me (best you can) that gravity accelerates all things equally.
16. Show me an example of something with a lot of inertia.