Grade 12 · Week 23 · U6
Essential question: What causes repeated motion around equilibrium?
A mass-spring or pendulum returns repeatedly toward equilibrium.
Build an initial model and explanation for: What causes repeated motion around equilibrium?
Record observations, questions, an initial model, and one claim that could be tested. Use these concepts where relevant: period; frequency; amplitude; restoring force; phase.
Study and explain the week's core ideas: period; frequency; amplitude; restoring force; phase
Open oscillation text.
Revise Monday's model. Add two evidence-backed annotations and explain one limitation or uncertainty.
Graph periodic motion; period/frequency.
Show units, setup, calculation or graph reasoning, then write what the quantitative evidence can and cannot establish about: What causes repeated motion around equilibrium?
Small pendulum or virtual oscillator; secure lightweight mass.
Use the course safety charter. If supervision, facilities, materials, or conditions are not appropriate, use the supplied-data/simulation alternative rather than improvising hazardous procedures.
Record variables or design constraints, procedure/model, observations/data, and one revision you would make after reviewing the evidence.
Answer the essential question: What causes repeated motion around equilibrium?
Submit a claim, at least two specific pieces of evidence, reasoning that connects them, one limitation/counterclaim, and a correction note for any essential concept below 80%.
Select one artifact from this week and explain why it is trustworthy evidence of growth.