9-24-08

__**The Class of Physic!**__ The late bell has rung, and every body is ready to begin the day. As I turned onto the white board, there is the daily question ready for the students to answer. "How would Galileo explain a falling apple?" it stated. The students worked diligently trying to answer the question. After a few minutes, Mr. Manning started to ask for the answer. One student bravely raised his hand to answer the question. "The apple wants to stay at rest, but the force of the earth pulled on it with enough force, the apple will fall". Then we started going over our homework. Mr. Manning reviewed all the answers to the questions. The question 2a has one student curious. “Is it right that the car is hitting us, not us hitting the car?" she asked. Mr. Manning proudly answered yes because she actually understands the process of the inertia. Then the students divided into groups of two to work on the lab. The lab was about seeing the motion, and the force that is applying to the cart. The students used the rubber band to see the force that applied to the cart. As the rubber band expands, the force is greater, and the cart is going at a constant speed. Another way to know if the force is increasing by listens to the sound of the cart. If the sound is getting louder when the cart travel down the table then the force is greater.