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Quarter 4 – Week 1-2
9
“Describing Uniformly Accelerated
Motion Qualitatively”
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Science 9 Describing Uniformly
Fourth Quarter
Accelerated Motion
Week 1
Qualitatively
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EXPECTATIONS
Your first task for Quarter 4 is to describe the uniformly
accelerated motion (horizontal and vertical) qualitatively.
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. define uniformly accelerated motion operationally;
2. cite examples of bodies that exhibit uniformly
accelerated motion; and
3. value the importance of following and observing
speed limits on the roads.
RECAP
In Grade 8 you have learned about Newton’s Second Law of Motion –
the Law of Acceleration. According to this law, the net force (F) is
equal to the product of the mass (m) of the object and its
acceleration (a), F=ma. Can you state this Law?
Let’s have a simple activity to refresh your mind. State the Second
Law of Motion by completing the paragraph below. Choose your
answer from the two words inside the parentheses for each number.
Newton’s Second Law of Motion: The Law of 1. _____________
(Inertia/Acceleration)
The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is 2.
_____________ (directly/inversely) proportional to the magnitude of
the net force, in the 3. _____________ (same/opposite) direction as
the net force, and 4. _____________ (directly/inversely)
proportional to the 5. _____________ (mass/weight) of the object.
It is good that you can still recall the Law of Acceleration!
Remember that the larger the force applied on an object, the larger
its acceleration. Usually, the acceleration of a body may change and
vary from time to time due to several factors. If that is the case,
when can we say that there is constant acceleration?
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In this module we will focus on describing uniformly accelerated
motion qualitatively.
LESSON
Describing Uniformly Accelerated Motion Qualitatively
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?
Figure 1: The Traffic and Parking Management Officers of Pasig City
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 the COVID-19 pandemic as they assist
soldiers and police officers 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
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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 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:
Figure 2. Speedometer
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
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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,
Figure 3. Tossing a coin, you are moving toward gravity so you use
less force.
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
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the surface of the earth and drop it, the object will start Figure 4.
Free-fall 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 uniformly accelerated motion on
the next module mathematically or quantitatively.
ACTIVITIES
Let us do some activities for you to understand Uniformly Accelerated Motion more!
These activities are designed for you. The materials are easy to find and the procedures are
easy to follow. You can also do these simple activities at home with the help of any home companion.
Activity 1: “Am I in UAM (Uniformly Accelerated Motion)?”
Learning Competency:
The learners should be able to describe uniformly accelerated motion (horizontal and vertical)
qualitatively. S9FE-Iva-34.1
Objective: Identify bodies or objects that exhibit uniformly accelerated motion. Procedure: 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.
Closure: When can we say that an object exhibits uniformly accelerated motion?
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Activity 2: “UAM (Uniformly Accelerated Motion) Comic Strip”
Learning Competency:
The learners should be able to describe uniformly accelerated motion (horizontal and vertical)
qualitatively. S9FE-Iva-34.1
Objective: Cite objects or situations showing uniformly accelerated motion.
Procedure:
1. Construct a comic strip about uniformly accelerated motion on a bond paper. The comic strip
should be composed of at least six frames.
2. The setting of your comic strip must show a scenario or a situation exhibiting uniformly
accelerated motion.
3. Set the scene as if the characters are having a conversation describing uniformly accelerated
motion based on the scenario or situation. The comic strip will be evaluated based on this
scoring rubric:
Category 5 4 3 2 1
There are very
There are There are
few There are no
references to the references to the Unfinished or no
references to the references to the
Content topic topic output
assigned assigned topic in
assigned in each assigned in most submitted.
topic in the a few the comic strip.
frame. frames.
frames.
The graphics are
somewhat Little or no
The graphics are
meaningful, The graphics are graphics were
meaningful,
colorful, and scarce evident. It is
colorful, and clear that the
appropriate. throughout Unfinished or no
appropriate. effort was
Graphics It is clear the piece and output
It is clear that lacking and
that some time not much submitted.
time and
and time or effort they did not
effort went into
effort went into was put forth. complete the
their creation.
their creation. assignment.
They have
included at least They have They have They have 3 or
Unfinished or no
6 included 5 included 4 less
Format frames to frames to the
output
frames to frames to comic
their comic strip. submitted.
their comic strip. strip. comic strip.
Comic is easy to Comic is easy to
read and read and most
elements are Comic is hard to
all elements Comic is hard to Unfinished or no
Clarity and clearly read with few
are so clearly read and output
Neatness written, illustrations and
written, understand. submitted.
labeled and labels
labeled and
illustrated. illustrated.
Closure: Aside from the given scenario on your comic strip, can you cite other situations of bodies or
objects exhibiting uniformly accelerated motion?
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