Dynamics

A causual model for motion

Mr. Porter - AP Physics 2025

Contents:

Which objects move with constant speed?

What do you notice about the conditions where the objects move at a constant speed?

Mallet Ball

Mallet Ball

We are going to try and recreate uniform motion (constant acceleration) where and with objects moving over smooth, hard, level surfaces.

• First with a bowling ball,
• then by looking at a simulation

Bowling Ball Situations - Using a mallet and a bowling ball:

Each time we use the mallet, let it bounce. (Don’t use the mallet like a bulldozer.)

• Start with a stationary bowling ball. Then, speed up the bowling ball from rest.
• Have someone roll a bowling ball. Then, bring it to a stop.
• Have someone roll a bowling ball. Then, keep it moving at a CV.
• Have someone roll a bowling ball. With one tap, have the bowling ball make a 90 degree turn.
• Keep a bowling ball moving in a circle at constant speed.

Your goal: summarize the relation between taps and motion in as few statments as possible

Lab Safety:

1. No High Mallets
2. Be aware of your surroundings
3. No excessive rolls
4. No smashing into walls, mats, classmates, etc.

Lab Instructions:

1. Everyone in your group should play mallet ball at least once.
2. As a group think about how you will accomplish the mallet ball task.
3. Attempt to accomplish task.
4. Record how you successfully accomplished the task
   • Written description
   • Drawing that models the motion and your mallet taps
5. Finally, write a general descriptive model that explains how mallet taps relate to the motion of the bowling ball

How do taps relate to

the motion of

the bowling ball?

Does our rule relating motion and taps work for the bowling ball tapping the mallet? Or in other words does the bowling ball tap the mallet?

What would happen as we make the taps more "constant"?

Describe the "taps" that affect the motion of the fan cart

Phet Tug of War

CER

On the next slide there is a list of statements. Decide if they the statement is true or false and then support that claim with evidence from the simulation and reasoning based on our models of motion and forces.

Phet Tug of War:

1. A person's location on the rope matters.
2. Different combinations of people can produce the same sum of forces.
3. The sum of the forces on the cart is always equal to the addition of the individual forces.
4. It is impossible for the cart to accelerate to the left if there are people pulling it to the right.
5. The side with the bigger person will always win.
6. The side with more people will always win.
7. It is impossible to make the cart decrease in speed.
8. It is impossible to make the cart move at a steady speed.
9. The cart will always move in the direction of the sum of the forces.
10. If the sum of the forces is zero, the cart must be at rest.

Write a Summary

How do forces affect the motion of an object?

You can do this in 2 sentences

Newton's First Law

When the forces acting on a system are unbalanced the system will accelerate.

When forces acting on a system are balanced the system will maintain its constant velocity.

A force is

an interaction between two objects.

Forcse can be a result of contact or due to forces at a distance

Newton's Third Law

A force is an interaction between two objects. The two objects mutually apply this force on each other. The force is always equal in magntiude and opposite in direction.

Force Pairs

• Newton's Third Law describes force pairs
  • You can identify these pairs with an interaction diagram
  • The line that connects each bubble or object is the force pair.

Contact Interactions

1. Compression: when two objects' surfaces are pushed together and the surfaces deform
2. Stretch: when two objects pull on each other and are elongated
3. Shear: When surfaces pull on each other as they slide or attempt to slide

Common Forces

Make a Table

Force Diagrams

Free Body Diagrams

Vector Addition Diagrams

Unbalanced Force Lab

What variables affect the acceleration of the fan cart?

Unbalanced Forces

Design an experiment(s) to find a mathematical relationship between those variables and acceleration

Consider:

• What will you measure?
• How will you measure it?
• What tools can you use to limit uncertainty?
• How can you design your experiment to limit uncertainty?

Before you begin...

How will you measure the fan force for each settings?

Unbalanced Force Lab

Create a mathematical model relating mass, force, and acceleration.

Essential Questions:

1. How is mass related to the acceleration for a constant net force?
2. How is net force related to the acceleration for a constant mass?

Notes:

• Be sure to take at least 8 data points
• Design two experiments to answer the above questions
• Linearize data in analysis

Board Meeting Goal: Develop a mathematical model relating net force, mass, and acceleration

Gravity

Notes:

• Weight == == Force of Gravity...so
• Weight is a FORCE, mass is scalar quantity
• is the gravitational field strength
  • Measured in N/kg
  • changes based on planet and location on that planet
  • near the surface of the Earth

Solving Force Problems

Quantitatively

Try it - Mild

Two giant holiday ornaments are hanging on Mr. Porter's front porch as show in the diagram to the right.

1. Draw the FBD for each ornament.
2. Determine the value of all of the forces.

Medium

In another episode of Don't Do This At Home, Jason secures a strong cable to two dead trees in the woods behind his home and attempts to jump-start his tight-rope walking career. His first attempt ends in the rather precarious position shown in the diagram. The rope makes an angle of 10° with the horizontal. Jason has a mass of 70 kg. Determine the tension in the cable.

Spicy

Tarzan, much to his dismay, gets his loincloth stuck on a branch. He’s left hanging with the vine pulling upward at a angle and his loincloth pulling him horizontally to the right.

1. Draw FBD for Tarzan
2. Write the equation for the vertical forces on Tarzan () and horizontal forces ()
3. Tarzan is 75 kg what is his weight?
4. Determine the tension in the vine and his loincloth.

Lab

Notes:

• is proportional to stretch or compression ()
• The proportionality constant, , is called "the spring constant" (creative)

• A spring is Hookean if it follows the equation above

AP Practice

Fan Cart Lab

Draw a FBD and vector addition diagram for the fan cart for the following three situations:

1. Fan off, cart at rest
2. Fan on, held in place by Mr. Porter
3. Fan on, moving on level track

Newton's Second Law

Applying Newton's Second Law

1. Draw Free Body Diagram
2. Split Forces into x & y components
3. Sum forces in x & y direction ( and )
4. Solve

Elevator Problems

Solve on whiteboard with your group first & then make notes for your future forgetful self in your notebook.

Elevator Scale Reading

Assuming Friction...

Rank the boxes from easiest to acceleration to most difficult to accelerate. Explain your reasoning...

Boxes are held at rest against rough, vertical walls by forces pushing horizontally on the boxes as shown.

Rank the magnitude of the normal force exerted on the walls by the boxes.

Friction

Notes:

• is only for static friction
  • Why? Only need friction to balance so you don't need the maximum amount of static friction
• (greek letter mu, pronouced "mew") - coefficient of friction
  • how likely surface pairs are to interlock
  • always less than 1

Static Friction Lab Example

Common Values

** From NYS Regents Physics Reference Tables

How do Kinetic compare to Static values?

In both cases below, Grace pulls the same large crate across a floor at a constant speed of .

Is the magnitude of the force exerted by Grace on the rope (i) greater in Case A, (ii) greater in Case B, or (iii) the same in both cases?

Explain your reasoning.

Friction Practice

Consider the free-body diagram for an object accelerating across a surface. The object has a mass of 2.12-kg. There is a forward thrust force of 50.0 N. The coefficient of friction between the object and the surface is 0.365. Determine the …

Dexter Eius is running through the cafeteria when he slips on some mashed potatoes and falls to the floor. (Let that be a lesson for Dexter.) Dexter lands in a puddle of milk and skids to a stop with an acceleration of . Dexter weighs .

Determine the coefficient of friction between Dexter and the milky floor.

Amaya is driving his car home after soccer practice. He is traveling down Lake Avenue with a speed of . A deer runs onto the road and Amaya skids to a stop in .

Determine the coefficient of friction between the car tires and the roadway.

Consider the free-body diagram shown at the right. If the applied force is 97.7 N at an angle of 27.4 degrees, the force of gravity is 110 N and the coefficient of friction is 0.369, then what is the acceleration (in m/s/s) of the object?

Friction Lab

Objective

Determine the coefficient of static friction between your block and a two flat surfaces in the classroom.

Inclined Planes

Inclined Planes

Component of gravity perpendicular to incline

Component of gravity parallel to incline

**if you can't find these with ease using trig, you MUST memorize those equations

Lab partners Anna Litical and Noah Formula placed a 0.25-kg glider on their air track and inclined the track at 10.4° above the horizontal. Use the structure provided at the right to determine the …

1. Force of gravity
2. Parallel component of gravity
3. Perpendicular component of gravity
4. Normal Force
5. Net Force
6. Acceleration

The image shows our Einstein action figure sitting on a slab of wood coated with plastic tape. The angle at which Einstein slip's is . Determine the maximum coefficient of static friction, for Einstein in terms of , , and physical constants.

Accelerating Systems

Three blocks are connected by strings and pulled to the right by a force with magnitude , as shown in the figure above. All frictional forces are negligible. The tension in the right and left strings have magnitudes and , respectively. Taking the positive direction to be toward the right, which of the following is a correct equation of motion for the block of mass?

If the acceleration is derive an expression for , , and in terms of , , , and any universal constants.

Acceleration Systems

Boxes are pulled by ropes along frictionless surfaces, accelerating toward the left. All of the boxes are identical, and the accelerations of all three systems are the same.

Rank the tensions in the ropes. Explain your reasoning

Accelerating Systems

In both cases a spaceship is pulling two cargo pods, one empty and one full. At the instant shown, the speed of the pods and spaceships is 300 m/s, but they have different accelerations as shown. All masses are given in terms of M, the mass of an empty pod.

Will the tension at point S in the tow rod be (i) greater in Case A, (ii) greater in Case B, or (iii) the same in both cases? Find the tension in each rope to help.

With your table

AP Workbook 2.K

In each case shown below, a box is sliding along a horizontal surface. There is friction between the box and the horizontal surface. The box is tied to a hanging stone by a massless rope running over a massless, frictionless pulley. All these cases are identical except for the different initial velocities of the boxes.

Rank the magnitudes of the accelerations of the boxes at the instant shown. Explain your ranking