NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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Maryland Science Center
Maryland Science Center: Field Goal! [Pdf]
Create a catapult using the provided link, then experiment with it to see how your accuracy at making a field goal is affected by distance from the goal posts. Learn about the physics of the football's trajectory path.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Elephant & Feather (Free Fall)
A demonstration involving an elephant and a feather and explanation of why all objects maintain the same acceleration in the state of free fall without any air resistance.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Applying Gravity to a Particle
Next, let's apply all these ideas to the case where a particle is being acted on by both gravity and air resistance using this 5-question quiz/practice. The gravity force vector points downward, and the air resistance force opposes it.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fireworks Simulator
Using the interactive tool, see what kind of interesting looks you can come up with. Have fun!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Air and Fluid Resistance
This article on Khan Academy is about air and fluid resistance that is caused by friction.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Newton's First Law?
Newton's First Law also called the law of inertia is the most important thing to realize about motion. This article offers more information on motion and explains solved problems involving Newton's First Law. Also included is a video...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Science of Sports Cycling
A detailed look at the aerodynamic principles associated with cycling. Good science and even better web page design. Includes an online calculator that allows the user to calculate the aerodynamic drag and propulsive power of a bicyclist...
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Paper Clip
In this lesson make a parachute that will carry a load of paper clips in this revised activity. Links provided for 2 other activities to demonstrate air resistance.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Airplanes (2 3)
This paper airplane lesson plan helps young scholars learn about certain concepts like air resistance, motion, and aerodynamics.
University of Virginia
Uva: The Real World Air Resistance
A contrast of Galileo and Aristotle's view of inertia and motion. Describes air resistance force and how its reality seems to initially support Aristotle's view.
NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Air Resistance
Use the TI-89 to investigate the effect of air resistance on a free-falling object. Examples in the activity use calculator screenprints and keystroke instructions to demonstrate the use of the calculator to solve these problems....
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Mass Hung on a Spring
Experiment to see how air resistance affects the periodic motion of a mass on a spring.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice W/ Air Resistance: Lesson 1
This lesson provides the learner with example problems using Newton's second law of motion, when accounting for air resistance. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Air Resistance."
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Projectile Motion
Applet site that allows the user to change various inputs and then see how the object will fly when launched. Applet even allows for air resistance.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Friction
Easy-to-understand explanation of friction and air resistance, with a supplemental activity and quiz questions.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Skydiving
The Physics Classroom offers this animation depicting the forces acting upon a falling skydiver.
NASA
Nasa: The Way Things Fall
This site from NASA compares free falling motion to falling with air resistance. Discusses Galileo's experiment. Explains why we believe all objects free fall with the same acceleration.
University of Minnesota
The Physics of Flight: Bernoulli's Principle
Discusses air flow around the wing of a plane and its effect upon the lift and drag forces. Focuses on the application of Bernoulli's principle to wing design and the subsequent airfoil shapes.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Energy Conservation on an Incline
This site is a discussion and animation about whether the total mechanical energy of a cart rolling down an incline is conserved, which can be determined if there are any external forces acting upon it.
University of Maryland
University of Marylad: Computer Tutorials in Physics: Air Resistance
This site has a discussion of a college physics project in which the motion of an object under the influence of air resistance was modeled and studied. Procedure and modeling software are described and the results and the findings are...