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    This document provides background information and instructions for three activities to demonstrate Newton's three laws of motion. Procedure A demonstrates Newton's first law of inertia using a coin on a card over a container. Procedure B demonstrates Newton's second law of acceleration by timing a marble rolling down a ramp at different heights. Procedure C demonstrates Newton's third law of action and reaction using spring scales pulled in opposite directions. An extension asks students to apply the laws to describe a plane taking off and a multi-stage rocket launch.

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    This document provides background information and instructions for three activities to demonstrate Newton's three laws of motion. Procedure A demonstrates Newton's first law of inertia using a coin on a card over a container. Procedure B demonstrates Newton's second law of acceleration by timing a marble rolling down a ramp at different heights. Procedure C demonstrates Newton's third law of action and reaction using spring scales pulled in opposite directions. An extension asks students to apply the laws to describe a plane taking off and a multi-stage rocket launch.

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    This document provides background information and instructions for three activities to demonstrate Newton's three laws of motion. Procedure A demonstrates Newton's first law of inertia using a coin on a card over a container. Procedure B demonstrates Newton's second law of acceleration by timing a marble rolling down a ramp at different heights. Procedure C demonstrates Newton's third law of action and reaction using spring scales pulled in opposite directions. An extension asks students to apply the laws to describe a plane taking off and a multi-stage rocket launch.

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    Easy as 1-­‐2-­‐3: Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion

    Activity Objective

    •   To learn and experience examples of Newton’s three laws of motion

    Materials
    ü   Marble or other small sphere
    ü   Two meter sticks taped together in a “v” shape
    ü   Three spring scales
    ü   Plastic cup
    ü   Index card
    ü   Coin
    ü   Stop watch

    Background
    An understanding of the motion of planes and rockets requires a general knowledge of
    Newton’s three laws. The following activities are specific to each of the laws and will help
    students see relationships between all three.

    Instructions

    Procedure  A
    Newton’s First  Law is generally stated as, “Things in motion tend to remain in motion, things at  
    rest  tend to remain at rest.” The tendency to stay at rest  or, once moving, in motion, is called
    INERTIA. Things move or stop only if acted upon by another force.
    1.   Set  a container on a table.

    2.   Place a card on top of the container and place a quarter on top of the card.

    3.   Flick the card away with your finger.

    4.   Did the coin have inertia?

    5.   What  force acted on the card to set  it  in motion?

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    6.   What  force acted on the coin after step 3? (If the card is flipped out  of the way fast  
    enough,  the coin will remain over the container and fall into it.)

    Procedure  B
    Newton’s Second Law is “Acceleration of an object  increases as the force causing acceleration
    increases.”
    1.   Prepare a ramp about  1 meter long.

    2.   Lift  one end of the ramp and place a pencil under it.

    3.   Roll a marble down the ramp and time the roll from one end to the other.

    4.   Lift  the ramp higher.

    5.   Place a book under the lifted end and start  the marble on a ramp with one end pencil
    high. As the marble starts out, lift  the end of the ramp higher.

    6.   What  was the effect  on the speed of the marble?

    7.   Compare the results of the first  two experiments.

    8.   What  was the result?

    9.   What  was the force that  was acting on the marble?

    10.  How was it  increased?

    11.  What  was the effect  of this Increase?

    Procedure  C
    Newton’s Third law is, “For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.”
    1.   Take two spring scales and hook them together.

    2.   Have two students pull on the scales in opposite directions. Record the readings from
    both scales.

    3.   Place a third scale between the other two. Record the readings from all three.

    4.   What  were the differences in the readings for the two scales?
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    5.   What  were the differences when three scales were used? (The readings should all be
    the same in each experiment.)

    Extension
    Have the students apply the principles of Newton’s laws to the description of:
    -­‐   A plane taking off and climbing to 2,000 feet  while accelerating to 120 miles per hour.

    -­‐   A three-­‐stage rocket  launched into orbit  around the Earth then sent  on to the moon.
    Which of Newton’s laws are being applied in each case and at what  point  are they being
    applied?

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