This week we were looking at Vectors. It can become a bit tedious so no harm to introduce the topic with a fun puzzler.
So you’re travelling in a pick-up at 30 mph and you fire your beer bottle backwards at exactly the same speed. What happens?
Well Naturally Mythbusters had to find out.
The original was Japanese:
And finally, for a few minutes fun at the end of the class, what happens when the second largest ship in the US Navy is on patrol in the Irish Sea and encounters . . .
For teaching addition of Vectors the pHet site is very useful
These links can all be accessed through the Vectors page of the website.