Newton's First Law


Read chapter 4 in your book and visit The Physics Classroom for source material. You need two other sources




Be sure to have information for each bullet point below.

  • Define all boldface terms for your team.

  • Be able to differentiate between mass and weight.
  • Given the mass, calculate the weight in Newtons
  • Given the weight, calcualte the mass in kilograms

  • Draw free body diagrams with reasonable representation of size of vectors.
  • Draw free body diagrams with direction of vectors.

  • Utilize the free body diagrams to calculate net force.

  • Name action and interaction forces. - this is in chapter 6


First Project