8.01SC Classical Mechanics
Age 8Sample8-year-old · 3rd grade

The same shove, two different stories

From Newton's Laws of Motion · Peter Dourmashkin

A force changes how something is moving. Heavy things are stubborn about changing.

Original lecture on MIT OpenCourseWare

Before this sitting

Can you already do this?

Two quick checks on “you will be able to…”. Right on both and this sitting becomes mixed practice, not a lecture. Wrong is useful — we keep the full sitting.

  1. What does a force do?

  2. Same shove, more mass. The motion change is…