Transcript Halloween questions - elyceum-beta

Halloween questions
Answer the following questions that
connect Halloween to Physical
Science.
1) Connect the following concepts to some aspect
of the Halloween celebration events
• Acceleration
Constant Velocity
• Unbalanced Forces
Balanced Forces
• Free Fall
Friction Forces
• Newton’s 1st Law
Newton’s 3rd Law
• 2nd Class Lever
Wheel and Axle
• Momentum
Frame of reference
• Work
Power
Halloween questions
2) If you go out trick or treating, what will be your
overall displacement?
3) Estimate how many residences do you visit on
your best trick or treat run?
4) Estimate the length between one door to the
next on your journey to gather candy?
5) Use your answers in 3 and 4 to estimate your
overall distance
Halloween questions
6) Estimate the total number of pieces of
candy you got on your best run.
7) If the average piece of candy weighs 5.5
grams, estimate the total mass of your
candy haul in kilograms
8.a) What is the total weight of your candy?
Halloween questions
8.b) Draw a free-body diagram of a
Jack-O-Lantern being pushed across a
table.
9) You are accelerating at 3.4 m/s2 away
from a pack of demented Teletubie
dressed 7 year olds with your bag of
candy from question 7. What is the net
force applied to your bag?
• 10) Create a short story-description of a
Halloween event to which you can relate
the following ideas correctly:
– Terminal Velocity
– Force of Air Resistance
– 1st class Lever
– Wedge
– Change of momentum
• Answer all on a clean sheet of paper
• Best story (description) gets a 3 point
bonus for the 2nd marking period