Summary of Quarter 1

These past three units have really been centered on motion. We are constantly moving every second of the day - whether we are running, driving, or just breathing. This first week and a half of physics has helped me to put that constant motion into perspective to see how it really applies to us in our everyday lives. In unit 1, we learned about the units we use when referring to motion - acceleration, velocity, time, and distance. We put those newly learned units to use as we learned Kinematics in unit 2. We learned about how distance or velocity looks like on graphs. In this unit, many things we previously assumed had been challenged through our labs and activities. We learned things such as how we don’t feel motion when we are moving at constant speeds, or how the velocity of fast objects such as planes is 0 because the speed is constant. In unit 3, we learned about the effects of gravity on the motion we had been studying. We learnt through labs that everything is always accelerating downward and that gravity will pull down on objects with the same force no matter what its mass. In these three short units, I learned a lot about motion and it helps me to see movement around me with a new perspective.