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Forces on Resting Objects Activity

The document describes an activity to identify the forces acting on objects at rest. Students are asked to observe a hanging pen and a book placed on a table. For the pen, they identify gravity as the balancing force keeping it at rest. For the book, they recognize the normal force from the table balancing gravity's downward pull. Pushing the book with equal forces in opposite directions results in no motion, showing balanced forces are needed to keep an object at rest.

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Forces on Resting Objects Activity

The document describes an activity to identify the forces acting on objects at rest. Students are asked to observe a hanging pen and a book placed on a table. For the pen, they identify gravity as the balancing force keeping it at rest. For the book, they recognize the normal force from the table balancing gravity's downward pull. Pushing the book with equal forces in opposite directions results in no motion, showing balanced forces are needed to keep an object at rest.

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Activity 1 Forces on objects at rest

Objective: After performing this activity, you should be able to identify the forces acting on an object at
rest.

Materials: pen pair of scissors string book

Procedure

Situation 1

1. Hang a pen by a piece of string as shown in Figure 3a.

Figure 3a. Hanging pen

Q1. Is the pen at rest or in motion?


Q2. Are there forces acting on the pen? If yes, draw the forces. You may use arrows to represent
these forces.

2. Cut the string with a pair of scissors.


Q3. What happens to the pen?
What could have caused the pen’s motion?

Situation 2

1. Place a book on top of a table as shown in Figure 3b.

Q4. Is the book at rest or in motion?


Q5. Are there forces acting on the book? If yes, draw the forces acting on the book.

2. Let one member of your group push the book in one direction and another member push it in
the opposite direction at the same time with the same amount of push (force).

Q6. Did the book move?


How will you make the book move?

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