Distance, Time, Velocity and Rates of Change - March 2006, Stage 3&4

Problems

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How Far Does it Move?

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

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Decimal Time

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Use the clocks to investigate French decimal time in this problem. Can you see how this time system worked?

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Speeding Up, Slowing Down

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its speed at each stage.

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Up and Across

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

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Motion Sensor

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Looking at the graph - when was the person moving fastest? Slowest?

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Steady Free Fall

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you adjust the curve so the bead drops with near constant vertical velocity?

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Symmetric Trace

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Points off a rolling wheel make traces. What makes those traces have symmetry?

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