Lesson Plan: Applying Newton’s Third Law of Motion to Collisions Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to apply momentum conservation to find the forces acting on colliding objects and show that these forces obey Newton’s third law of motion.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- apply the principle of the conservation of momentum to two colliding objects to determine the forces acting on the objects in the collision and the time of contact for the objects.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the conservation of momentum,
- Newton’s second law of motion,
- Newton’s third law of motion.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- Two-dimensional motions of colliding objects.
