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Forces, Net Forces & Acceleration WorksheetForces, Net Forces & Acceleration Worksheet
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Olathe Public Schools
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Forces, Net Forces & Acceleration

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Pass along the knowledge of the great Sir Isaac Newton with this instructional activity on the laws of motion. Including three separate problems, each involving multiple parts and calculations, this resource is a great way to monitor students' understanding of the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

force, newton's laws of motion, acceleration, mass, net force, friction

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Implement this worksheet as an in-class or homework assignment during a physics unit on the laws of motion
  • Use this as a summative assessment following a lesson series on net forces and acceleration
  • Encourage students to create force diagrams to better visualize each problem

Pros

  • Problems include a range of contexts involving force and acceleration calculations
  • An answer key for the problem set is included

Cons

  • None

Common Core

HSN-Q.A.1 HSA-SSE.A.1.a HSA-REI.A.2 HSA-REI.B.3 HSF-LE.A.1.a HSF-LE.B.5 MP4 MP6

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