Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- How to use mathematical computations to solve for unknown variables in the impulse momentum theorem.
- How to interpret area under a curve of a graph.
- How to solve for kinematics variables using mathematical computations.
- Appropriate units of measure.
- How to identify the system.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Manipulate equations.
- Interpret graphical data.
- Follow written and verbal instructions.
- Draw force diagrams.
- Identify the forces acting on an object.
- Solve mathematical equations.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The same change in momentum can be caused by different force—time combinations.
Vocabulary
- model
- graph
- position
- velocity
- acceleration
- displacement
- distance
- speed
- instant
- interval
- kinematic equations
- analyze
- slope
- area under curve
- intercepts
- vector
- scalar
- coordinates
- origin
- magnitude
- units of measure
- significant figures
- friction
- free-body diagram
- force diagram
- net force
- inertia
- action-reaction
- proportional
- force
- mass
- system
- momentum
- impulse
- peak
- trough
