AC9S10U05 Year 10 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

investigate Newton’s laws of motion and quantitatively analyse the relationship between force, mass and acceleration of objects

Elaborations

• 1 investigating a moving object to analyse and propose relationships between distance and time, speed, force and acceleration
• 2 using mathematical representations including graphs and algebraic formulas to quantitatively relate force, speed, acceleration and mass
• 3 investigating how First Nations Australians achieve an increase in speed and subsequent impact force through the use of spearthrowers and bows
• 4 modelling how a change in net force acting on an object affects its motion and relating to the purpose of safety features such as seatbelts, airbags and crumple zones in vehicles
• 5 investigating the application of Newton’s laws in sport and how these are applied to improve an athlete’s performance or safety
• 6 constructing an argument, supported by data, to support lower speed limits near schools or for trucks in urban environments
• 7 investigating how driverless vehicles apply Newton’s laws of motion to brake in time

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