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"A friggin' sweet way to start class!", said one student who was more than happy to watch Mr. manning attempt to rap. The class didn't just get to sit and enjoy Mr. Manning lay down some fresh rhymes, instead they joined in with a non-stop refrain of, "//net force zero, same speed, straight line, or full stop."// After a few failed attempts the class managed to keep up to Mannings crazy awesome freestylin' skills and gave him a tastey rythm to spit to. Needless to say, "AutoControl" (the name of the song) was a hit.====== Having to actually "teach" something, Manning went over a worksheet (p. 16) on net force to tie in the rap to the class. The handout was pretty much busy work and talked about how the motor of a car pulls it foward, while friction, such as air resistance and road surface, pushes it backwards. There were a few simple questions to be answered on the back regarding the friction of a car. A lab was then started entitled "Static Equilibrium Lab: Physics 1" (p. 17), in it they learn that a Newton can also be a unit of weight, as opposed to the more common use of it as a unit of foce. The premise of the lab is that the students will hang a 10N weight on sring scales that are arranged differently each time. All they got to do in the lab so far was make their predictions about what the scales would read because the bell rang ending yet another fun-filled physics class with Mr. "DJ" Manning.