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Pasta Car Lab Report

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n this report the students learn and understand the concepts of why they are doing this. For example the pasta car lab, they understood and learning how newton's laws works such as the Newton's first law of motion, newton's second law of motion and, newton's third law of motion. Therefore they knew that Newton's first law is talking about inertia, then again some call it the law of inertia, it is when an object in rest stays at rest and also an object in motion stays in motion. For example, if the students have a vehicle on a hill and they let go of the brake it will roll and it will build up momentum until it's is not on the hill anymore and rolls until it runs out of energy until all that energy runs out that was built going down the hill. …show more content…

Newton's second law of motion is when two objects with different types of mass are forcing up together with acceleration. They were taught that if there is two objects moving with the same force and different mass that one will beat the other and the one will win is the car due to the car it has less mass than the van. For example, a force of a semi with the same force as pushing a truck the semi truck will go farther than the truck because it has less mass. Another thing the found out from the pasta car lab is Newton's third law of motion. Newtonś third law of motion is a motion that every action performed there is an equal and opposite reaction that reacts with the same momentum. An example is if a student jumps off a diving board into the water in the pool the student will push himself forward towards the water. Lastly in the pasta car lab the students also found out about potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is when a car on top of a hill sitting doing nothing until something happens. The potential energy will stress within itself by an electric charge where to go, but it is undecided until something happens. For kinetic energy it is when energy passes into the body due to being in motion. An example of kinetic energy is when car goes down a hill, it produces kinetic energy by rolling down the hill building up

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