UNIT 6: Momentum
Text resources:
OpenStax - College Physics for AP - Chapter 8 sections 1-8
Walker - Physics - Chapter 7
Handouts
Student Packet here
Slide sets:
Answers
Recommended videos
Learning Targets
OpenStax - College Physics for AP - Chapter 8 sections 1-8
Walker - Physics - Chapter 7
Handouts
Student Packet here
Slide sets:
- Momentum intro here
- Center of mass here
- Conservation of momentum here
- Collisions here
- Collisions in 2 dimensions
Answers
Recommended videos
- Slinky drop video here
- Center of mass video by Mr. Anderson here
- Worked problems by IlectureOnline (here)
- OkGo video (here)
Learning Targets
- Be able to calculate momentum
- Be able to describe momentum
- Be able to describe difference between
- momentum, energy and force
- Be able to define impulse
- Be able to use the conservation of momentum to solve collision and explosion problems
- Be able to use the conservation of kinetic energy to solve problems where appropriate
- Be able to identify perfectly inelastic collisions
- Be able to define elastic and inelastic collisions
- Be able to identify quantities conserved or not in collisions