FORCES AND MOTIONBy:

Drew Harris

Every time you push or pull something, you use a force, or push or pull. Forces transfer energy. Examples:When you throw a ball, the force of your muscles moves your arm to push the ball into the air.When you pick up a book, the force of your muscles move your arm to pull the book off the desk.

There are other, indirect examples, including: the force of a car’s engine turns the car’s wheels.

Forces

Examples of Force

Force

MotionsMany of the things around you are

motionless. Motion is a change of position. Position is a certain place. Objects stay in place until a force moves them. If something is moving, it means a force moved it.

Mass is a large factor in motion. If you push with equal force on a toy car and a wagon filled with books, when you stop pushing the toy car will move faster. That is because the wagon weighs more. Weight is a measure of the force of gravity put on an object.

Motion

Motion

Position – a certain place

Motion – a change of position

Force vs. ForceThe force needed to start an object moving also

depends on other forces that are acting on the object. What if your coat is fastened closed with Velcro. To open it you would need more force than the Velcro.

Once an object is moving, it moves until a force stops it. It’s easy to see where the stopping force comes from when a soccer goalie stops a kicked ball. Sometimes, however, the force is harder to name. You know that even if no player stops the ball it will stop on its own. That is friction. Friction is a force that keeps objects that are touching from sliding past each other quickly.

Friction

Which one has more friction?

Changing Motion

Changing Motion

We know it takes a force to start a motion. It also takes a force to change a motion as well. Changes are things like speeding up, slowing down, turning, and stopping.

Starting and slowing to a stop are examples of changing speed. Turning is an example of changing direction. Starting, slowing, speeding up, and turning are accelerations, or changes in the speed or direction of motion.

Acceleration

Acceleration

Gravity

There are many kinds of forces. The force that pulls objects toward Earth is gravity. The larger the mass of an object- the stronger the gravity. Gravity is a force that pulls all objects toward each other. Gravity gets weaker the further out you get. Weight is a measure of the force of gravity upon an object. If you go to a place that has a weaker force of gravity, like the moon, your weight will be less, too. If you were at a place with stronger gravity, like Jupiter, you would weigh more.

Weight

Weight

FRICTION

As you know, friction is a force that keeps objects that are touching from sliding past each other easily. However, friction can be useful. If there was no friction walking on a sidewalk would be like walking on perfectly smooth ice and the brake on a bike would be useless.

Sometimes people want to make the force of friction smaller. Friction can rub away machine parts that rub against each other. People put oil on machine parts to make them slippery.

WHICH ONE HAS MORE FRICTION?

HOW CAN WE REDUCE FRICTION?

By using bearings By using lubrication (usually oil)

By having a smooth surface such as skis or ice

By using a aerodynamic shape that air slips over easily

                                                              

                                                               

                                                                                                                

Frame of Reference

Look around you, would you say you’re moving? How did you answer that question? You looked at the things around you. That is called frame of reference. Motion is based on a type of frame of reference called relative motion. Relative motion is a motion described based on a frame of reference.

Frame of Reference

SPEED

Speed is the measure of an object’s change in position during a unit of time. For example, a swimmer has a time of about 1 yard per second. So, from this information you know that they will have a time of about 3 yards in 3 seconds.

Newton

Newton is the metric, or Systeme International (SI) unit of force. The abbreviation for it is N. One Newton is about the amount of force needed to lift a medium-sized apple.

Vocabulary• position – a certain place

• motion – a change of position • frame of reference – the things around you that you

can sense and use to describe motion

• relative motion – a motion that is described based on a frame of reference

 • speed – a measure of an object’s change in position

during a unit of time; for example, 10 meters per second

• force – a push or pull

Vocabulary• newton – the metric, or Systeme International (SI),

unit of force

• acceleration – a change in the speed or direction of an object’s motion

• gravity – a force that pulls all objects toward each other

• weight – a measure of the force of gravity upon an object

• friction – a force that keeps objects that are touching each other from sliding past each other easily

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