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Newton's Laws Stations Activity
Crash Test Dummy (student handout continued)
Test Your Understanding:
Resting Car
1. Using a force diagram, identify the forces that are acting upon the resting car.
2. Provide a description of the motion of the resting car:
3. The part of Newton's 1st Law that applies to the resting car is
Rolling Car
4. I predict that when the car rolls down the ramp it will:
5. After the car rolled down the ramp it…
6. Newton's 1st Law applies to this rolling car because:
Soft Impact
7. I predict that when the car hits the crumpled paper:
8. When the car hit the paper, the car and passenger:
9. The passenger was thrown _____cm. What direction was the passenger thrown?
10. How does this direction compare with the direction the car was moving?
Car Crash
11. I predict that when the car hits the book…
12. What distance did the passenger travel? _____ cm
This crash was different from the crumpled paper crash because:
Summary Questions:
13. How does wearing a seat belt change the effects of Newton's first law?
14. Car manufacturers use crash dummies in their test cars to analyze the safety. Based on what you have learned
about Newton's first law, what features would you tell car manufacturers to add to new cars?
