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Newton's Laws Stations Activity
Deep Impact (student handout continued)
Test Your Understanding Questions:
1. When comparing the impacts on the sand, is size OR mass of the dropped object more important?
What evidence supports this?
2. When comparing the impacts on the sand, which hit the sand with more force?
What evidence supports this?
3. Use Newton's second law to calculate the force of each impact. Since both balls are dropped from
the same height, we can use the acceleration due to gravity, which is 9.8 m/s2. Show all work. Do your
calculations support what you answered in question 2? Why or why not?
Material Mass (g) Diameter (cm) Height of drop (cm) Observations
Marble
Golf Ball
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