Action Packed Newton's Laws Project By: Kenneth Crowe, Hogan Heartsill, Trey Berney, and Carter Burkett

 (*The scene on the security screen is a joke and Trey is fine)

Newton's First Law - An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. 

For this law you saw that we used the bucket "vehicles" to simulate objects which begin to move from a rested position once a force acts upon them. The first bucket had no wheels on it and therefore had a force of friction being applied to it. As you can see in the diagram, friction begins to slow the bucket down the farther that it travels until it no long travels anymore. The second bucket was on a platform with wheels which simulated no friction (not actually no friction but it is as close as we could get) and therefore was able to travel much farther than the first bucket. As you can see in the diagram, there is no friction acting upon the bucket which allows it to continue travel until another force acts upon it. 

Newton's Second Law - Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass the greater the amount of force needed to accelerate the object.


For this law you saw us throw the ball across the room 3 different times. The first one thrown by Trey did not go very far compared to the 2 that Carter threw and that was because the force he applied to his throw had less magnitude than the force Carter applied to his throws. When the balls were thrown at Hogan, he punches both of them out of the way. The first one he punches with a certain force in a direction that causes the ball to go straight back to Carter with a certain acceleration. The second time he punches the ball, he punches it in a direction causing the ball to go upwards with a certain force causing it to go up with a certain acceleration. The ball that was punched upwards stayed in the air longer than the ball that was punched straight at Carter because more force was applied to it and therefore it went higher. 

Newton's Third Law - For every action there is an equal and opposite re-action.


For this law you saw Kenneth shooting the shotgun into the sky. When he pulled the trigger of the shotgun and the gun was fired you saw the butt of the gun get forced back into Kenneth's shoulder. This is the example of the equal and opposite reaction from the gun being fired. Kenneth was knocked down after firing the gun because the force of the gun being fired was greater than Kenneth had originally intended.