Unit 3 Work and Machines Reflection

Questions:
How much did you know about Work and Machines before we started? This requires at least 3 sentences–complete sentences.
How would you improve your Inclined Plane Lab report? Not just I would do better–think about the criterion rubric and make yourself goals to work toward!
Discuss what would you like to studied more about in this unit? Why?
Thinking about work and power–how do you think they will relate to the next unit–Energy?

I already know pretty much about Work and Machines before the unit started, as I’ve learned about it from past lessons in school. I haven’t really learned about how work and forces applied to the simple machines though. The unit taught me how to utilize these formulas and how to apply them to different simple machines, which really helped me understand them better.
Ci and Cv are the criterion rubrics I would like to improve my Inclined Plane Lab report on since my question and hypothesis wasn’t about work, which is what I would have to alter in order to make my lab report work. I would also have to add my self-assessment, which I forgot to include.

I would like to actually learn about each simple machine, since we haven’t been taught any of them when the presentations started, only inclined plane, so I would like to learn more about each simple machine rather than just be assigned this random simple machine that I didn’t even understand how it works and was then expected to do my own research rather than to learn in classes.
I think work and power would relate to energy in this lesson, as energy is a form of power and work. I believe what the textbook does is to build ideas on top of each other, each relating to the one previously learned before, in order for us to learn the ‘big picture’ of the subject, which, in this case, is Physics.

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