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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students are asked to demonstrate and apply the law of conservation of momentum.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Impulse

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will be asked to calculate the impulse applied to a physical system.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Conservation of Momentum in One Dimension

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online lesson students will apply the concept of conservation of momentum using action and reaction forces.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Momentum and Impulse

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate what momentum is, how to calculate it, and how it relates to impulse.
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Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Impulse and Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
Students explore impulse and momentum. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, impulse, Newton's laws, and momentum. The resource consists of lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions. Practice problems and exam...
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Interactive
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Relativistic Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
A clear (as these things go) presentation of the calculation of relativistic momentum. Given with a handy calculator that even calculates the % error. The site goes on to Momentum of a Photon, and to Relativistic Energy in Terms of...
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Relativistic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
A mathematically understandable presentation of relativistic energy. Parts include Relativistic Energy, Rest Mass Energy, Conservation of Energy, Pair Production, Relativistic Kinetic Energy, and even Kinetic Energy. A couple of...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Newton Knew

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For race car engineers, F = m a, is the backbone of the vast majority of calculations. The selection of gear ratios is one example. Investigate and create a mathematical model for the relationship between force, speed, mass, distance and...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Forces

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to various forces.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Acceleration and Force

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of acceleration and force.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Impulse and Momentum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of impulse and momentum.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Distance From Earth Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A number line showing the distance from Earth to the eight planets and the Sun.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Circular Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will examine the student's comprehension of the basic rotational motion concepts in the field of physics.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Turning the corners is the limiting process for racing cars. Going straight is simply about speed, but making the turns faster than other cars is a real challenge. In this activity, we ask how does weight balance affect the turn radius...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: An Inclined Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, Students can use a Force Sensor to measure the force needed to lift an object and the force needed to pull the same object up an inclined plane. They will also calculate work done and efficiency and make conclusions.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Work, Power and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of work, power, and energy.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Time Laps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will create a picture of time and speed as they relate to changes in the weight of a radio controlled race car. This picture will be a graph - a mathematical model- that allows to you predict the speed of your radio...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: How Much Energy From Aa Batteries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Work output from any process comes at a price. That price is the energy input required to drive the process. A fact of reality (also called the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is that the input energy is always greater than the output...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc:investigating Friction:investigate How the Force of Friction Opposes Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this investigation, students will learn that speed, velocity, and changes in velocity are the result of the action of forces on objects such as friction. They will be able to explain how the force of friction opposes motion by...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second: Having a Ball With Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will create a gravity ball launcher to demonstrate their understanding of mass, force, momentum, and motion. The students will use critical thinking, measurement, and observation and analysis of data to make changes and improve...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Com Padre: Will the Egg Break?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate why an egg does not break when thrown at a hanging sheet, but does when thrown at a wall. They will learn about momentum, and its applications.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Angular Momentum Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading about the historical development of concepts of conserved motion, students are directed to a series of activities to gain a better understanding of momentum, conservation of momenta, angular momentum, and conservation of...