Acceleration
The formula for acceleration, given Force and mass.
What is a = F/m ?
The part of car designed to fold and squish in a crash.
What is the crumple zone?
The formula for force.
What is F = ma?
We are using this software to collect acceleration data for our crash tests.
What is Vernier graphical analysis?
True or false; cell phones are allowed in class.
What is false?
The units used to measure acceleration.
What are m/s2 ?
The number of identical crumple zones you have to build.
What is 3?
The units used to measure force.
What are Newtons?
The number of crash tests you have to perform in the competition.
What is 3?
True or False; Mrs. Jamieson takes late work.
What is false?
We will use this to measure the acceleration of the crash car.
What is an accelerometer?
This cannot be used when making your crumple zone.
What is duct tape or prefabricated parts?
The force on a 500 kg car that impacts at 6 m/s2.
What is 3000 N?
The day the class competition is on.
What is October 24th?
Professionalism is this percentage of your grade.
What is 30%?
Acceleration has two components, a magnitude and a ...
What is direction?
When your crumple zone causes your car to bounce back.
What is not good?
The force that causes the car to go down the ramp.
What is gravity?
The day the district competition is on.
What is October 29th?
Cleaning up your work area and putting materials away.
What is my responsibility?
Increasing the stopping time will cause the acceleration to do this.
What is decrease?
The crumple zone decreases the force of impact by doing this.
What is increase the stopping time?
This causes the force of impact to be decreased.
What is a decrease in acceleration?
Doing this will win the competition.
What is have the lowest average acceleration?
You will not get to build your crumple zone.
What happens if you don't finish your forms?