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This Work and Force: Lifting a Bucket interactive also includes:
- Work and Hooke's Law
- Student Reference
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How much work does it take to lift a bucket? An interactive presents a problem of lifting a bucket from the ground to the top of a building. Using their knowledge about work and integrals, pupils calculate the amount of work required to lift the bucket including the rope. Learners break apart the integral to understand the components of the work required.
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Instructional Ideas
- For those struggling to grasp the change in the amount of work required to lift the rope, have them use a spring scale and measure the weight of different lengths of the same rope
Classroom Considerations
- The class should understand how to calculate work
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Pros
- Provides hints for some of the challenge problems
- The reference material includes additional examples and problems
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- None