{"id":78,"date":"2014-01-03T22:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-01-03T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:17:12","slug":"teaching-idea-toy-car-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Idea &#8211; Toy Car Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69\" alt=\"updated\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated.jpg 560w, https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/updated-300x45.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>To introduce (or review) the concept of average speed for physics students, there&#8217;s nothing more fun than measuring the speed of toy cars!<\/p>\n<p>Students are provided with a selection of toy cars and then asked to assess average speed of the vehicle. I highly recommend buying a few toys from your nearby &#8220;dollar store&#8221; &#8211; these toys often have strange behaviours and idiosyncrasies that make the task just a little more challenging!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79\" alt=\"toy_cars\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars.png\" width=\"449\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars.png 449w, https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a>Students are allowed to use any technique they wish, but some choose to use motion sensors to track the amount of ground their toys cover. For example, here is some motion sensor data illustrating toy cars accelerating away from the sensor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars_graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80\" alt=\"toy_cars_graph\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars_graph.png\" width=\"322\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars_graph.png 322w, https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toy_cars_graph-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an example of a formal lab for this type of activity, <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toycarspeed.pdf\">try clicking here to download ScienceMan&#8217;s version<\/a>.\u00a0This activity is a great excuse to go toy shopping, so go have some fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To introduce (or review) the concept of average speed for physics students, there&#8217;s nothing more fun than measuring the speed of toy cars! Students are provided with a selection of toy cars and then asked to assess average speed of the vehicle. I highly recommend buying a few toys from your nearby &#8220;dollar store&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching_ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}