PHYSICS IN ACTION

To gain understanding of science principles necessary to meet this challenge, students work collaboratively on activities in which they continue their exploration of the conservation of energy and uncover the concepts described by Newton’s laws of motion.  In the process of this exploration they will observe the constant interaction of force and mass that surrounds them.  Students will also describe how forces, such as gravity and friction, can do work and cause an object’s energy to transfer from potential to kinetic and vice versa.  As a final component of the chapter, students will examine the concept of momentum and how momentum, like energy, is conserved.