GUIPOS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Pob. Guipos, Zamboanga del Sur

WORKSHEET IN SCIENCE 9
Quarter 4 – Week 1

Name of Learner: ________________________________ Grade & Section: _____________ Date: ________

A. Topic: DESCRIBING UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION QUALITATIVELY

B. MELCS with Code: Describe the horizontal and vertical motions of a projectile (S9FE-IVa-34)
C. Week Number: Quarter 4 – Week 1
D. Objectives: After going through this module, you are expected to:
a) Identify bodies or objects that exhibit uniformly accelerated motion.
b) Value the importance of following and observing speed limits on roads.
E. Background Information:
Are you familiar with these blue uniformed men who are
usually positioned in the busy streets of Pasig City? You might
have seen them as you cross the streets to reach your school, or
on your way to the market or a friend’s house. Who are they and
what do they do?
They are the Pasig City Traffic and Parking Management
Officers. They are also usually called “Blue Boys”. They play a
crucial role in maintaining the flow of traffic and in implementing
laws and rules and regulations on the road that every motorist
should follow. They may also be considered as “front-liners” amidst
Figure 1: The Traffic and Parking Management the COVID-19 pandemic as they assist soldiers and police officers
Officers of Pasig City
in checkpoints around Pasig City.
Speed limits are observed on roads, they vary and depend
on several conditions. Speed limits for highways are different from speed limits on small avenues and streets.
This prevents vehicles to speed up or accelerate unnecessarily in our busy streets, as they are being
monitored by our Pasig TPMO.

Acceleration is defined as the rate of change in velocity with time. It

is a vector quantity having both magnitude and direction. Acceleration of
vehicles usually changes from time to time. A vehicle may speed up as it
travels to highways or slow down as it approaches an intersection. It should
also halt when the stoplight is red and eventually accelerate when the light
turns green. We can say that most type of acceleration that we observe is not
constant or non-uniform due to these factors.
When you are riding a vehicle, you can say that it speeds up or slows down
based on its speedometer. A speedometer indicates the speed of a vehicle, it Figure 2. Speedometer
is usually combined with a device known as an odometer
that records the distance traveled.
Assume that you are riding a vehicle and observed these speedometer readings:
Elapsed Time Reading on the Speedometer
After 1 minute 30 km/h
After 2 minutes 31 km/h
After 3 minutes 32 km/h
What can you say about the readings on the speedometer during each minute? What can you infer
from the data in the table above?
This means that the vehicle speeds up. Every minute there is a 1 km/h increase on the speed of the
vehicle. The increase for every minute is constant, therefore we can say that the vehicle has uniform
acceleration.
The vehicle in the example above exhibits a uniform or constant acceleration. It is a type of motion in which the
velocity of an object changes by an equal amount in every equal time period.
In Uniformly Accelerated Motion (UAM), the value of the acceleration is constant. It does not change.
The velocity changes but at a constant rate. An object with zero acceleration is said to be in uniform motion. An
object in uniformly accelerated motion has non-zero but constant acceleration. Acceleration represents how
velocity changes with time, velocity represents how position changes with time.
Toss a coin upward. Does it stay up? What makes it go down?
Gravity pulls the coin down. Things that are thrown upward, will go down
because of this force. Gravity also pulls us towards the earth. That is why we are not
being thrown outside space.
What floor was your classroom when you were in Grade 7 and 8? Was it on the
4th, 5th or 6th floor of the school building? Which is easier, climbing to your classroom or
going down to the school canteen?
When you climb a high place, you go against gravity. When you are on a high
place, and you go down, you are moving toward gravity so you use less force.
Figure 3. Toss a coin
 Same is true with freely-falling objects.
Objects at free-fall also exhibit uniformly accelerated motion. The
acceleration due to gravity (9.8 m/s2) neglecting air resistance, is a
constant acceleration for all falling bodies, regardless of their mass and
weight.
All objects on the earth’s surface are being accelerated toward the center of
the earth at a rate of 9.8 m/s2. This means that if you raise an object above
the surface of the earth and drop it, the object will start from rest and its
velocity will increase by 9.8 meters per second for each second it is falling
toward the earth’s surface until it strikes the ground.
In general, a uniformly accelerated motion is the one in which the
acceleration of a body throughout the motion is uniform. It can be observed in either vertical or horizontal
dimension, and also in two dimensions. We will prove these examples of
Figure 4. Free Fall
uniformly accelerated motion on the next module mathematically or
quantitatively.

F. Activities
ACTIVITY 1 “Am I in UAM (Uniformly Accelerated Motion)
Directions: Analyze each scenario. Write UAM if it exhibits Uniformly Accelerated Motion, write Non-UAM if it
DOES NOT.
_______________ 1. A bike that is at rest.
_______________ 2. A boy holding a book.
_______________ 3. A girl walking leisurely.
_______________ 4. A hanging picture frame.
_______________ 5. A rock falling from a cliff.
_______________ 6. A fruit dropping from a tree.
_______________ 7. A rolling ball on an inclined plane.
_______________ 8. A man standing still in an escalator.
_______________ 9. A car increasing its velocity at a constant rate.
_______________ 10. A truck running with a constant acceleration.

ACTIVITY 2 “ FACT or BLUFF”

Directions: The following statements are about bodies and objects exhibiting Uniformly Accelerated Motion
(UAM). Write FACT if the statement is TRUE and write BLUFF if the statement is FALSE.
_______________ 1. Acceleration is constant in bodies in uniformly accelerated motion.
_______________ 2. UAM can only be observed along the horizontal line of action.
_______________ 3. Objects at free-fall exhibit uniformly accelerated motion.
_______________ 4. In UAM velocity changes but at a constant rate.
_______________ 5. An object in UAM has zero acceleration.

ACTIVITY 3: “Observing Speed Limits”

Directions: Write an open letter addressed to drivers and motorists. Make an appeal to them to follow speed
limits and explain to them the consequences of not following such. Integrate what you have learned about
uniformly accelerated motion. You can cite examples to deliver your message clearly.