Physics Unit 2 AOS 1 - How is motion understood?

This unit is composed of three different modules that can be completed individually (approximately 4 hours each). The modules include:

Physics Unit 2 AOS 1: 1.1 - Concepts used to model motion

Students will use interactive activities including simulations, videos and apps, to:

• Identify parameters of motion as vectors or scalars.

• Analyse straight-line motion under constant acceleration.

• Analyse non-uniform motion in a straight line.

• Apply concepts of momentum to linear motion.

Physics Unit 2 AOS 1: 1.2 - Forces and motion

Students will use interactive activities including simulations, videos and apps, to:

• Explain changes in momentum as being caused by a net force.

• Model the force due to gravity.

• Model forces as vectors acting at the point of application.

• Apply Newton's three laws of motion to a body on which forces act.

• Apply the vector model of forces to readily observable forces.

Physics Unit 2 AOS 1: 1.3 - Energy and motion

Students will use interactive activities including simulations, videos and apps, to:

• Apply the concept of work done by a force.

• Investigate and analyse Hooke’s Law for an ideal spring.

• Analyse and model mechanical energy transfers and transformations using energy conservation.

• Analyse rate of energy transfer using power.

• Calculate the efficiency of an energy transfer system.

• Analyse impulse in an isolated system.

• Investigate and analyse theoretically and practically momentum conservation in one dimension.