Warm Up: Gather the materials listed below. Each person will need their own cardboard.
Learning Goal: To be successful in this unit, you should work towards understanding the answers to these big questions.
Today: Whatever Floats Your Boat
Assignment: Chapter 10 Assignment Sheet
Learning Goal: To be successful in this unit, you should work towards understanding the answers to these big questions.
- How are pressure and depth related?
- How is the buoyant force related to Archimedes’ principle?
- What are the simplifications used in describing ideal fluid flow?
- How is energy transformed within a system and between a system and the environment?
Today: Whatever Floats Your Boat
- Given: piece of cardboard 12”x12”, scissors, masking tape
- Find: Design a boat from the material that will keep the most mass afloat.
Assignment: Chapter 10 Assignment Sheet
- Due Mon. 8/20: Practice 10.3
- Thurs. 8/23: Quiz 10.1*
- Due Fri. 8/24: Mini Research Project - Archimedes and Buoyant Force
- Due Mon. 8/27: Practice 10.4