A Detailed Lesson Plan in Physics
I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of 60 minutes the students should be able to:
A. Give examples of projectiles.
B. Calculate the unknown values in various projectile motion problems; and;
C. Compose an oath stating their roles in conserving and protecting wildlife.
II. SUBJECT MATTER:
A. Lesson: Projectile Motion
B. References
Danac, Alfonso C. and Santos, Gil Nonato C. Physics (Investigatory
Physics) 1st Edition. Manila: REX Book Store, Inc. pp. 158-160.
C. Materials:
Piece of Colored Paper
Calculator
III. PROCEDURE:
Teacher Activity Student Activity
A. Daily Routine
1. Greetings
2. Classroom Management
3. Priming
B. Review:
Let’s Play a game!
The title of this game is “Complete
Me”.
In this game you need to find out
the word of the day. To be able to
do that you will answer the
unfinished statement in Column
A. The answers are provided in
Column B. You will be choosing
the letter of the correct answer,
after that, you will be pasting it on
the space provided by each Yes sir!
number. If you got all the correct
answer the word of the day will
appear.
Are you ready guys?
Complete Me
Column A Column B
P. 1. A change in the position of the [Link] Quantity
object is ______.
R. 2. The rate of motion refers to P. Motion
______.
O. 3. Speed that does not change is R. Speed
_______.
J. 4. When there is a change in the J. Average Speed
speed of an object in every given
time the speed is called _______. [Link] Speed
E. 5. The speed of the vehicle at the
O. Constant Speed
instant you were reading the
speedometer is called ____.
T. Displacement
C. 6. The length of path of a moving
object travelled is _____.
[Link]
T. 7. The shortest distance between
two points is _______. L. Scalar Quantity
I. 8. Is the ratio of displacement and
Time of travel is _____. [Link]
L. 9. The quantity that has magnitude
only is ______.
E. 10. The quantity that has both
magnitude and direction.
C. Lesson Proper: The word of the day is PROJECTILE!
What is the word of the day?
Good job guys!
Now, what is a projectile? Projectile is any object that has been
launched/ dropped or thrown in a
particular direction from one point.
What is the two dimensional path The two dimensional path that a
that a projectile follow? projectile follow is called trajectory.
The motion of the projectile is
described in terms of its position,
velocity and acceleration.
Now, give some examples of 1. soccer ball begin kicked
projectiles. 2. a baseball begin thrown
3. drops of water
For better understanding of
projectile motion you will be
doing varied activities.
You will be focusing on this
situation, then, after awhile you
will answer the questions.
Situation:
Suppose that a car slowly passes
as you stand by the side of a
road. A passenger in the car
accidentally drops an apple out of
the window. Imagine that you
can watch the apple only.
Remember that the apple has the
same horizontal velocity as the From my point of view the path will be
car. curved like that of the launched golf
ball. No, because the passenger will
1. From your point of view, what
see a straight vertical path like that of
path will the apple take? Does
the dropped golf ball.
the passenger will see the
same path? Yes.
2. Talking about the time for the
apple to hit the ground, will
you with passenger if he tells
that the apple hits the ground The shape of trajectory and the
in 2 seconds? horizontal motion depends on the
point of view of the observer.
3. Where the shape of trajectory
and the horizontal motion do
depends?
The independence of vertical
and horizontal motion and
our motion equations can be
used to determine the
position of the objects. If we
call the horizontal
displacement x and the initial
horizontal velocity Vx then, at
time t,
X= Vxt and Vxf=Vi
The equation for an object
falling with constant
acceleration, g, described the
vertical motion. If y is the
vertical displacement, the
initial vertical velocity of the
object is Vy. At time t, the
vertical displacement is,
y=Vyt+1/2gt2, also,
Vyf=Vy+gt
Using these equations, we
can analyze the motion of
projectiles.
We will first look at the
motion of objects that have
an initial velocity of zero.
Projectile Launched Horizontally
A stone is thrown horizontally at +15 m/s from the top of a cliff 44 m high, a.
How long does the stone take to reach the bottom of the cliff? B. How far from the
base of the cliff does the stone strike the ground? C. Sketch the trajectory of the
stone.
Given:
Horizontal velocity, Vx=+15 m/s
Initial velocity, Vy=0 m/s
Vertical acceleration, g=-9.80 m/s2
Unknowns:
a. time of flight, t
b. horizontal displacement, x
Basic equations:
X= Vxt
y=Vyt+1/2gt2
Solutions:
The cliff height is 44 m, so if we assign the initial position y=0, then at the end of the
flight (time t) the position is y=-44m.
a. We know all the quantities in the equations y=V yt+1/2gt2 except the unknown, the
time t. Since Vy=0, y=1/2gt, or t2=2y/g.
t2=2(-44m)/-9.8 m/s2
=9.0 s2
T2=√9.0 s2
=3.0 s
[Link] find the horizontal displacement use
x=Vxt
=(+15 m/s)(3.0 s)
=+45 m
Let us have other exercises. Answer the following problems:
1. A stone is thrown horizontally
at a speed of +5.0 m/s from
the top of a cliff 78. 4 m high.
a. How long does it take the
stone to reach the bottom
of the cliff?
b. How far from the base of
the cliff does the stone
strike the ground?
c. What are the horizontal
and vertical components
of the velocity of the stone
just before it hits the
ground?
2. A steel ball rolls with constant
velocity across a tabletop
0.950 m high. It rolls off and
hits the ground +0.352 m
horizontally from the edge of
the table. How fast was the
ball rolling?
3. An auto moving too fast on a
horizontal stretch of mountain
road, slides off the road,
falling into deep snow 43.9 m
below the road and 87. 7 m
beyond the edge of the road.
a. How long did the auto
take to fall?
b. How fast was it going
when it left the road? (in
m/s and km/h)
c. What was its velocity 10 m
D. Generalization: below the edge of the
What is a projectile? road?
Projectile is any object that has been
What do you call to the two launched/ dropped or thrown in a
dimensional path that a particular direction from one point.
projectile traveled?
The two dimensional path that a
IV. EVALUATION: projectile traveled is called trajectory.
Let us have a quiz.
On a sheet of paper answer the
following:
1. Alice throws the ball to the +x
direction with an initial
velocity 10 m/s. Time elapsed
during the motion is 5s,
calculate the height that
object is thrown and Vy
component of the velocity
after it hits the ground. (Draw
the its trajectory)
2. ___________ is any object
that has been launched/
dropped or thrown in a
particular direction from one
point.
V. VALUES INTEGRATION: *Projectile
3. The two dimensional path that a
Are you familiar with the game
“Angry Birds”? projectile traveled is called ________.
* Trajectory
What is the mechanics of the 4. Give two examples of projectiles.
game?
Upon playing the game, is
there any moral values you
gained? Yes sir!
What do you think will happen
if that game will take by the The mechanics of the game is to use
people in wrong way? the birds in order to hit the pigs.
Remember that birds are one Nothing sir.
of the wonderful creations of
God. So, we should give them
importance. We need to love The people will develop an attitude
them. Not only birds but also hurting and killing the birds.
other animals in wildlife.
So, what shall we do in order
to protect the birds and other
animals?
For your last activity, in a piece
of colored paper you will In order to protect the birds and
compose an oath stating your other animals we need to take care of
role in protecting and them. We should not kill them. And
conserving the wildlife. Then, we should not kill their freedom.
you will share your oath to
your classmates by reading it. (The students will compose their
After the reading of oaths you oath)
will be pasting your oath on
our “Wall of Oaths”.
VI. Agreement:
On your Physics Notebook, answer problems 1-5 from pp. 175-176 of Physics
(Investigatory Physics) by Gil Nonato C. Santos and Alfonso C. Danac.
