Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Classical Mechanics
College-level online course highlighting the study of classical mechanics. This course focuses on Newtonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, and kinetic gas theory. Course features include a 35 video lecture series by Walter Lewin. Also link...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Robert Hooke
The transcript of a talk given on the syndicated radio broadcast titled "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." Interesting account of Robert Hooke. Using a captivating and engaging story line, the article tells of Hooke's many interests in...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: A Christian Gentleman
The transcript of a talk given on the syndicated radio broadcast titled "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." The story contrasts the lives and personalities of two scientific colleagues - Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle. Discusses their...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring Vibrational Frequency With Light
Strike a key on the piano, and you hear the string vibrating. Just about any object vibrates when it's knocked, but how much and how fast? This project helps you find out. You'll build a simple light-sensing circuit for measuring the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Applying Hooke's Law: Make Your Own Spring Scale
Hooke's law says that the opposing force of a spring is directly proportional to the amount by which the spring is stretched. How accurately Hooke's law describe the behavior of real springs? Can springs be used to make accurate scales...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses & Springs
Hang various mass weights on spring scales while you adjust the spring stiffness and damping in this online activity. Slow down the action, take it to another planet, or watch the amount of potential, thermal, and kinetic energy.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Gravity and Orbits
An interactive simulation that teaches about gravitational force, circular motion, and astronomy by manipulating the sun, earth, moon, and a space station to observe the effects of gravity and orbital paths. This simulation can either be...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Hooke's Law
An interactive simulation that teaches about force and potential energy by changing variables to stretch and compress springs. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and includes handouts, lesson plans, and additional...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Masses & Springs
An interactive simulation that teaches about springs, Hooke's Law, and conservation of energy observing changes in kinetic, potential, and thermal energy by adjusting the stiffness and damping of springs holding various masses. This...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Gravity Force Lab
An interactive simulation that teaches about gravitational force, Newton's Third Law, and force pairs by varying properties affect the gravitational force exerted between two objects. This simulation can either be downloaded or played...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Elasticity: Stress and Strain
In the following interactive students will learn about Hooke's Law. They will explain this law using graphical representation between deformation and applied force and discuss the three types of deformations such as changes in length,...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Potential Energy and Conservative Forces
In the following interactive students will define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. They will explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke's Law applies. Students will also...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Hooke's Law
Stretch and compress springs to explore the relationships between force, spring constant, displacement, and potential energy. Investigate what happens when two springs are connected in series and parallel.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Using Hooke's Law to Understand Materials
Students explore the response of springs to forces as a way to begin to understand elastic solid behavior. They gain experience in data collection, spring constant calculation, and comparison and interpretation of graphs and material...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Science of Spring Force
Students use data acquisition equipment to learn about force and displacement in regard to simple and complex machines. In the engineering world, materials and systems are tested by applying forces and measuring the resulting...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection
Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Be the Radiologist!
In addition to the associated lesson, this activity functions as a summative assessment for the Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer unit. In this activity, students will create a 1-D strain plot in Microsoft Excel depicting the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer
In this project, students are challenged to answer the question "Is there a way to detect the presence of tumors that isn't as painful as mammography but more reliable and quantifiable than a breast-self exam or clinical breast-exams?"....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Detecting Breast Cancer
This lesson introduces students to their task of developing a painless means of identifying cancerous tumors. Solving the challenge will depend on an understanding of the properties of stress and strain. After being introduced to the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
This lesson offers an introduction to Hooke's Law as well as stress-strain relationships. Students will first learn the governing equations. Then students will work through several example problems first individually, then as a class. In...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, young scholars must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Applications of Linear Functions
This lesson plan culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activities, students use linear models to depict Hooke's law as well as Ohm's law. To conclude the lesson plan, students apply they've...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Potential Energy
This site from Georgia State University Physics Department defines and explains the concept of potential energy. Using equations and graphics to illustrate the idea, it discusses the many types of potential energy (gravitational,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Spring Away!
This lab demonstrates Hooke's Law with the use of springs and masses. Students attempt to determine the proportionality constant, or k-value, for a spring. They do this by calculating the change in length of the spring as different...