OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
A. describe uniform circular motion and its parameters;
B. differentiate speed, velocity, and acceleration;
C. identify the things and events that exhibit uniform circular motion; and
D. explain the relationship of Newton’s laws of motion to uniform circular motion.
D. SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED:
Explaining, identifying, describing, analyzing, and differentiating one
parameter from the other.
E. VALUES:
The students will apply the Newton’s laws of motion in understanding the
concept of uniform circular motion.
The students will see the importance of understanding the concept of
uniform circular motion to various laws of physics.
F. MATERIALS USED:
Laptop, LCD projector, board marker, and visual aid
G. REFERENCES:
Giancoli, Douglas C.,Physics(Fifth Edition).pp.112-115
www.m.sparknotes.com
www.wedassign.net
www.gktoday.in/uniform-circular-motion
III. LEARNING TASKS
A. Preparation
a) Review of the past lesson
C. Presentation
Class, familiarize yourselves with
those terms because those terms will be
given an emphasis to our new lesson
which is the uniform circular motion.
D. Lesson Proper
What is uniform circular motion?
From the word uniform, what does
it mean?
Yes, Girlie.
Uniform means constant.
Very good!
What else?
Yes, Lyra.
It means unchanging.
That’s right!
What else?
Yes, Sunshine.
It means steady.
Very good!
All your answers are correct.
An object that moves in a circle at
constant speed is said to experience
uniform circular motion. The magnitude
of the velocity remains constant in this
case, but the direction of the velocity
continuously changes as the object
moves around the circle.
When we say magnitude of the
velocity and direction of the velocity,
what does it mean?
Yes, Rayma.
When we say magnitude of the
velocity, it is only referring to its
speed while the direction of the
velocity talks about the velocity
itself.
Precisely!
So, based on what Rayma have said, will
you differentiate speed from velocity?
Yes, Marisa.
Speed is just how fast you’re
moving. Velocity on the other hand,
is your speed and direction.
Very good!
Between the speed and velocity, where is
the scalar and the vector quantity?
Yes, King.
Speed is the scalar quantity and
velocity is the vector quantity.
Exactly!
How did you say that speed is scalar and
velocity is vector? Will you cite an example?
Yes, Kate.
Speed is scalar because it
doesn’t have a direction, while
velocity is vector because it does
have a direction. For example, the
speed of the car is 300 miles/hour,
and its velocity is 300 miles/hour
South.
Very well said.
Now, let’s talk about acceleration.
What is acceleration?
Yes, Reynald.
Acceleration is a change in
velocity.
That’s right.
So how can something moving in a circle
at constant speed have an acceleration?
Yes, Hilario..
Since an object moving in a
circle is constantly changing
direction, its velocity is constantly
changing. And whenever
something’s velocity is changing-
even if only its direction, not its
speed, that object must be
accelerating.
Exactly!
Class, do you have any question about
the difference among speed, velocity, and
acceleration?
None Ma’am.
If that’s the case, let’s proceed to
centripetal acceleration or a so called
center-pointing acceleration.
But before that, let’s have a group activity.
Your group will be based on your group
lately. Here are the instructions and guide
questions.
1. At your station you have a ball attached
to a string. Your group should move to an
area in the room where you have space to
swing the ball in a circular motion without
hitting someone.
2. Observe the motion of the ball as you
swing it in a circular motion. Draw a diagram
of the ball and its path.
3. Observe the motion of the ball as you change
the speed. Explain what happens to the motion.
4. Change the length of the string. Explain
what happens to the motion.
After you finished the activity, each group
will choose one rapporteur to present and explain
your work here in front.
You only have 5 minutes to do the
activity, and your time starts now.
(The students did the activity)
Class, are you finished?
Yes Ma’am.
Okay. Let’s begin your presentation.
(The students presented their
work)
Class, I want to congratulate all of you,
because you did well your activity.
Let’s give everyone an awesome clap.
For centripetal acceleration, we have the
equation ; where a is the centripetal a v2
r
acceleration(m/s2), v is the velocity(m/s), and
r is the radius(m).
What does it mean?
Yes, Hilario.
Centripetal acceleration is
directly proportional to velocity
squared and inversely proportional
to the radius.
Very good!
Take a look on this figure.
V. AGREEMENT
A. Research about Non-uniform Circular Motion and using a venn diagram, compare
and contrast uniform from non-uniform circular motion.
Reference:
Physics by Douglas C. Giancoli. pp. 122-123
Republic of the Philippines
ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
San Mariano Campus
Sta. Filomena, San Mariano, Isabela
A DEMONSTRATION PLAN
IN
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
(Uniform Circular Motion)
Submitted by:
NOVY-ANN U. SANCHO
Submitted to:
CLARINA S. SARMIENTO, Ph.D.
Program Chairman, Education Department