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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Center of Mass and Two Dimensional Collisions Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference page that reviews two-dimensional collisions with key concepts, equations, and skills to understand center of mass motion.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Elastic and Inelastic Collisions?

For Students 9th - 10th
A page describing how collisions can be either elastic or inelastic. Also, learn about what's conserved and not conserved during elastic and inelastic collisions.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Conservation of Momentum?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what conservation of momentum means and how to use it with this reference page.Page also includes practice problems with answers.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Two Dimensional Collisions?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to handle collisions in 2 dimensions and get better at pool with this reference page. Included on this page is a step-by-step procedure to solve 2 dimensional collision problems.
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eBook
Other

Uc Santa Cruz: Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
A physics definition of collisions with examples to illustrate the concept and related links to problems and solutions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of perfectly inelastic collisions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Complex Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the direction of momentum for objects after they collide at angles to one another.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Elastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice with Elastic Collisions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the momentum or velocity of objects after they have undergone an inelastic collision.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Average Force

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of average force.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of inelastic collisions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions & Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the momentum of objects after they have undergone a perfectly inelastic collision.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions & Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the velocity of objects after they have undergone a perfectly inelastic collision.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Momentum and Collisions

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about momentum and collisions in the science of physics and the laws of motion including units and measurement. Calculate momentum using mass times velocity.
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Activity
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a set of four Physics problems dealing with the conservation of momentum principle.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Colliding Spheres

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab activity from the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students investigate the impact of collisions upon the velocity and momentum of the colliding objects. Requires understanding of vectors.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Momentum Conserved

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology gives a Lab activity in which young scholars use a variety of toys to discover Newton's second law and momentum conservation. Newton's cradle, skate boards, and a toy motorcycle are...