Friday 22 March 2013

Easter fun

Practice your projectiles with these two games
For the second one, what angle is optimum for shooting furthest?
Much more work on kerboodle.
Happy Easter!
Ms Hamnett

Monday 18 March 2013

Year 12 homework

Year 12 homework is on kerboodle, answers to questions will be posted on there today. 
12a homework for Monday 18th March is to plot a graph of the data below and they to try and calculate the speed for each section.
Thanks
Ms H

Time
Displacement
0
200
5
190
10
160
15
120
20
80
25
70
30
60
35
50

Friday 8 March 2013

Stability and centre of mass - work for Friday 8th March

Use the idea of centre of mass, forces, moments and stability to answer the following questions.  Bring your answers ready to discuss next lesson (Wednesday).

Why are you more likely to fall over if you are wearing high heels

Why are wedge heels more sensible than stiletto heels?

What is the most stable position for a human?

Why do tall people tend to have bigger feet?

Why is a double decker bus less stable if the top deck is full of people?