Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.
Students who demonstrate understanding can use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.
Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem, based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as potential social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).
Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers).
Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, analyzing the specific results based on explanations in the text.
Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
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A device that measures altitude, the height above a reference level, typically the Earth's surface.
A gravity protractor used to determine the height of a rocket flight from the angle of the user’s body to the apogee of the rocket flight.
The vertical distance or height above a reference point, often the Earth's surface.
The highest point in the trajectory of a projectile, such as a rocket, or the point in an orbit farthest from the Earth.
The force generated by a rocket's engine to propel it upwards.
Force attracting a body toward the center of the earth or another mass.
Vertical distance from a base level, such as ground or sea level, to an object or point above it.
In trigonometry, the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the length of the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle, often used in calculating angles and heights.
A branch of mathematics dealing with the relationships between the sides and angles of triangles, used in this context for height estimation.
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