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Department of Education
Region IX – Zamboanga Peninsula
Schools Division of Isabela City
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Name: Score:
Learning Area: SCIENCE Grade Level: 9
Lesson/Topic Uniformly Accelerated Motion (UAM) - Week/Day:
Projectiles launched vertically.
MELC: Describe the horizontal and vertical Code: (S9FE-Iva-
motions of a projectile. 34)
1. Describe Uniformly Accelerated Motion (UAM) - Projectiles launched
OBJECTIVES vertically.
2. Perform an inquiry-based activity involving Uniformly Accelerated Motion
(UAM) - Projectiles launched vertically.
3. Appreciate the importance of the concept of Uniformly Accelerated
Motion (UAM) - Projectiles launched vertically by solving mathematical
and conceptual problems.
A. Recall
Activity 1: Scalar or Vector
Identify whether the following terms are scalar or vector quantities.
Put an S before the number for scalar quantities, and V for vector quantities.
After which connect the terms to their respective SI units.
______1. Distance a. m/s
______2. Speed b. m/s2
______3. Acceleration c. s
______4. Velocity d. m
______5. Time

Activity 2: Remember me
ACTIVITY Identify the words being described in the following statements.
Choose from the box below.
Gravity Force Acceleration
Velocity Displacement
______________1. A push or pull that causes that causes an object to move
faster or slower.
______________2. Direction and distance of the shortest path between an
initial and final position.
______________3. Speed in a given direction.
______________4. Force that attracts all objects towards the center of the
Earth.
______________5. The rate of change in velocity.

B. Motivation (Use separate sheet/s of paper to answer the given

questions.)
Introduce the concept of Uniformly Accelerated Motion (UAM) in vertical
dimension by eliciting the student’s knowledge about free-fall.
Consider a stone dropped from a cliff as shown
in figure 1, answer the following questions:
 What is gravity?
 What is acceleration due to gravity on
earth?
 Is the rate of gravity (acceleration) the same
for all objects on earth?
Figure 1. Motion of the stone
dropped from a hill.

C. Discussion of Concept (Use separate sheet/s of paper to answer the

given questions.)
Activity 2: DROP ME!
Objectives:
 Record the time for the ball to reach the ground.
 Calculate the height of a building.
Materials:
- Stopwatch/cellphone
- Ball (e.g. tennis ball, softball, baseball, etc)
- Long string
Procedure:
1. Look for a tall building in your school. Drop the tennis ball from the
tall building.
2. Using the stopwatch, ask your classmate to record the time it takes
the ball to reach the ground. Record your data.
3. Calculate the height covered by the ball using the formula:
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h = ½ agt2 (since vi = 0)

TABLE 1. Data on the time and height of the building

Trial Time, t (s) Height, h(m)
1
2
3
average

4. Using the data from the table, calculate the final velocity of the ball
using the formula vf = at since vi = 0. Try calculating the final velocity
using the formula vf = √2agh and compare your answers.
Guide questions:
Q1. What is the velocity of the ball just before it hits the ground?
Using a very long string, get the actual height of the building.

Q2. How will you compare the actual height of the building from the result of
the experiment?
Q3. What is the percentage error?
Activity 2: YOU RAISE ME UP!
Objectives:
 Determine the initial velocity of a ball thrown upward.
 Record the time for the ball to reach the ground.
 Record the time for the ball to reach its maximum height, and
 Calculate the maximum height reached by the ball thrown vertically
upward.
Materials:
- Stopwatch/cellphone
- Ball (e.g. tennis ball, softball, baseball, etc)
Procedures:
1. Throw the ball vertically upward in the air as hard as you can in an
open space.
2. Using your stopwatch, ask your classmate to record the total time the
ball remains in the air. Get the time of the ball from point of release to
its maximum height by dividing the total time into row. Record your
data.
TABLE 2. Data on the total time and time of the ball in the air
Trial Time, t (s) Height, h(m)
1
2
3
average
Guide questions:
Q4. What do you think happens to the speed of the ball as it reaches its
maximum height?
Q5. Calculate the initial velocity of the ball by using the formula vf = vf + agt.
Use -9.8m/s2 for ag.
Q6. Solve for the maximum height reached by the ball using h = vit + ½ agt2.
Use -9.8m/s2 for ag.

TABLE 3. Data on the velocity of the ball and height of the building.
Trial Velocity, v(s) Height, h(m)
1
2
3
average
Guide questions:
Q7. What will happen to the ball’s velocity as it falls further below the point of
release?
Key concepts:
LESSON  An object in free-fall experiences an acceleration of -9.8m/s2. (The
negative sign indicates a downward acceleration) Whether explicitly
stated or not, the value of the acceleration in the kinematic equations
is -9.8 m/s2 for any freely falling object.
 If an object is merely dropped (as opposed to being thrown) from an
elevated height, then the initial velocity of the object is 0 m/s.
 If an object is projected upwards in a perfectly vertical direction, then
it will slow down as it rises upward. The instant at which it reaches
the peak of its trajectory, its velocity is 0 m/s. This value can be used
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as one of the motion parameters in the kinematic equations.
 If an object is projected upwards in a perfectly vertical direction, then
the velocity at which it is projected is equal in magnitude and
opposite in sign to the velocity that it has when it returns to the same
height.

TABLE 4: Vertical Component Formulae

Uniformly Vertical (y) component
Accelerated Motion Formulae
Formulae viy = 0
1. vf = at + vi vf y= ayt + viy vf y = ayt
2. d = vit + at2 y= viy t + ay t2 y =ayt2
2 t2 2
3. d = vf + vi y = vfy_
2
t 2
2
4. Vf =
Vfy2 = viy2 +2ayy Vfy2 =2ayy
vi2+2ad
Read and understand the given situation: (Use separate sheet/s of paper
VALUING to answer the given questions.)
Problem Solving:
A stone is thrown upward with an initial speed of 20m/s. See figure 2. It goes
up to a certain height, then comes down to the same level from where it was
thrown. Assume ag = 10m/s2.

a. How high does the stone go before it

starts to come down?
How long does it take the stone to
reach this point?
b. What is the acceleration of the stone
at the highest point it reached? What
is its speed at the highest point?
c. How long does it take the stone to
reach the same level from where it
was thrown?

Figure 2. path of the stone thrown upward

Try solving this:
CHECKPOINT To check your understanding, try to solve the following problem: Use
separate sheet of paper.
1. The acceleration of gravity on the moon is 1.62m/s2. If a ball is
dropped on the moon from a height of 1.50m, determine the time for
the ball to fall to the surface of the moon.

2. A ball is thrown upward from a balcony with a speed of 3m/s, 8m

above the ground. Find the time taken for the ball to hit the ground
and the speed at which it hits the ground. Take g = -9.8m/s 2.

3. A stone is dropped into the river from a bridge 7.0 high. How long
would it take before the stone crashes into the water?