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written by Dean Baird
This item is a chapter on Newton's First Law and inertia from "The Book of Phyz," an educator's guide to teaching introductory high school physics.  It features easily-understood content support in the fundamentals of inertia, including a brief history of how the idea of inertia evolved from Aristotle through Newton.  Related student activities, experiments, and a practice test are included in the materials.

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Classical Mechanics
- Motion in One Dimension
= Acceleration
= Velocity
- Newton's First Law
- High School
- Instructional Material
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Law of Inertia, free fall, motion graphs, motion labs, quiz, test
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Metadata instance created January 14, 2009 by Caroline Hall
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Next Generation Science Standards

Disciplinary Core Ideas (K-12)

Forces and Motion (PS2.A)
  • For any pair of interacting objects, the force exerted by the first object on the second object is equal in strength to the force that the second object exerts on the first, but in the opposite direction (Newton's third law). (6-8)
  • All positions of objects and the directions of forces and motions must be described in an arbitrarily chosen reference frame and arbitrarily chosen units of size. In order to share information with other people, these choices must also be shared. (6-8)
Relationship Between Energy and Forces (PS3.C)
  • When two objects interact, each one exerts a force on the other that can cause energy to be transferred to or from the object. (6-8)

Crosscutting Concepts (K-12)

Patterns (K-12)
  • Patterns can be used to identify cause and effect relationships. (6-8)
Cause and Effect (K-12)
  • Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems. (6-8)

AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4F. Motion
  • 6-8: 4F/M3a. An unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed or direction of motion, or both.
  • 9-12: 4F/H8. Any object maintains a constant speed and direction of motion unless an unbalanced outside force acts on it.
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Baird, D. (2004, January 1). The Book of Phyz: Newton's Laws. Retrieved March 19, 2024, from http://phyz.org/phyz/BOP/2-NEWTON/PHY.html
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Baird, Dean. The Book of Phyz: Newton's Laws. January 1, 2004. http://phyz.org/phyz/BOP/2-NEWTON/PHY.html (accessed 19 March 2024).
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