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Year 10 Motion Lesson 6 - Falling Bodies

This lesson focuses on the motion of falling bodies, emphasizing the acceleration of freefall (g = 9.8 m/s²) and the effects of air resistance. Students will learn to describe the motion of falling objects, calculate time and speed without air resistance, and understand the forces acting on falling objects. The lesson includes questions and tasks to reinforce these concepts.

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Year 10 Motion Lesson 6 - Falling Bodies

This lesson focuses on the motion of falling bodies, emphasizing the acceleration of freefall (g = 9.8 m/s²) and the effects of air resistance. Students will learn to describe the motion of falling objects, calculate time and speed without air resistance, and understand the forces acting on falling objects. The lesson includes questions and tasks to reinforce these concepts.

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2 Motion 23/03/2025
Lesson 6 – Falling Bodies
Learning objectives:
- Know the approximate value of the acceleration of freefall, g, for
an object close to the Earth’s surface.
- Describe the motion of falling objects with and without air/liquid
resistance

Starter:
1) What is the force called that keeps us on the Earth?
2) What is the force that acts against our movement when moving
through the air?
3) How do you calculate acceleration?
Watch the video and answer the questions:
What forces are acting?
Weight (towards the Earth)
and air resistance (opposite to
movement).
Why do the feathers and
bowling ball fall at different
speeds in the air?
Air resistance acts against the
direction of movement,
reducing the resultant force.
What happens when they
fall in a vacuum?
There is no air resistance and
acceleration is the same for
both, so they hit the ground
Falling Objects

In questions, if you are asked to do calculations using the


acceleration equation we have looked at in this topic for falling
objects, you will not need to take air resistance into account.
Falling without air resistance
Falling without air resistance

There is only one force acting in


the ball - weight
weight
Falling without air resistance
The ball falls faster …….

weight
Falling without air resistance
The ball falls faster and faster…….

weight
Falling without air resistance
The ball falls faster and faster…….

It gets faster by 9.8 m/s every


second (9.8 m/s2)

This number is called “g”, the


acceleration of free fall.

weight
Falling without air resistance

distance

time
Falling without air resistance

distance

time
Falling without air resistance

speed

time
Falling without air resistance
speed

Gradient = acceleration
= 9.8 m/s2

time
Questions
Task:
1) An object falls from a hovering helicopter and hits the ground at a
speed of 30 m/s. How long does it take the object to fall? Sketch a
speed-time graph for the object (ignore air resistance).
2) A stone falls from rest from the top of a high tower. Ignore air
resistance and take g = 9.8 m/s2. Calculate:
1) The speed of the stone after 2 seconds.
2) How far the stone has fallen after 2 seconds.
3) At a certain instant a ball has a horizontal velocity of 12 m/s and a
vertical velocity of 5 m/s. Calculate the resultant velocity of the ball
at that instant.
Extension: Complete the Kognity assignment.

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