Thursday, November 4, 2010

It's not a real force!

Today we are learning about circular motion along with centripetal (real) and cetrifugal (fake) forces.

One of the tricks is trying to get the students to understand that the forces are because of the constantly changing velocity.

There is lots of drawing circles and arrows on the board, and then me swinging a bucket of water around and above my head.

I haven't swung the bucket yet, hopefully it works well :)

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