Forces

Everyone is fully on forces today with Introductory Physics moving on from the nature of forces to Newton's Laws of Motion. We looked at Newton-1 and Newton-2 in class today, so we got a conceptual and quantitative look at how forces impact matter and tomorrow we'll spend time working on problems that focus on Newton-2 and bring in our work with kinematics, as well.

Physics D worked on their Atwood's Machine lab and, tomorrow, will discuss that lab as part of our work with net force. Make sure you have your labs with you so you can take notes that might be useful for when go begin to script a conclusion for your lab write-up. Physics F and Honors Physics had that discussion today and we used their lab results from the previous day to illustrate the concepts associated with net force and acceleration. For all groups, we'll get more work with free-body diagrams and net force tomorrow in class before moving on formally to Newton's 1^st Law of Motion.