My students need a velocity speed gun to study the velocity of various objects as we drop them, hurl them and otherwise cause them to move.
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My Students
My students will be introduced to a variety of high tech pieces of equipment to study the motion of objects. They are certainly familiar with the speed guns used by local police and would cherish the ability to use the same equipment in the lab! Help them understand the physics of moving objects.
My students come from all over the District of Columbia but the majority come from single parent homes.
We are a charter school where 35% of our students receive free or reduced lunches. Their exposure to high tech devices is limited to cell phones. By purchasing this equipment, we will be able to expand our lessons on projectiles, objects rolling down ramps, velocity of students running etc. We will then complete graphs using the data collected and compare it to data obtained using hand held stop watches.
My Project
The concept of velocity is easy for our students, however, expanding this to include acceleration and deceleration is always a challenge. By using the radar gun, we will be able to measure velocity at different points in an objects (or students) flight and thereby underscore the key concept that a change in velocity is known as "acceleration." This device will also be used with our student athletes so that they will understand that physics is not limited to the classroom.
The impact of this device will expand far beyond the doors of our classroom into other disciplines and will help our students understand that physics is the keystone to all other sciences.
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