Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Physics Quizzes: Simple Machines
Assess your understanding of the six simple machines with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is available.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Inclined Plane
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what an inclined plane is, its mechanical advantage, and how it changes force to make work easier.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister: The Inclined Plane
This site from Dirtmeister gives information on how the Ancient Egyptians used the inclined plane. Dirtmeister explains the inclined plane and its uses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects at Rest on an Inclined Plane
Investigate which forces are acting on an object resting on an inclined plane.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice With Inclined Planes
A video presentation providing example problems on finding the net force acting on objects at rest or sliding across inclined planes. [13:08]
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Machines: The Wedge
Explains how a wedge works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, and some common applications of wedges.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Seven Speedy Pieces
In this activity, students will determine the coasting distance of a toy car if it is rolled down from different fixed distances down an inclined plane.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing/the Screw
A full and complete discussion of the simple machine called the screw, a modified inclined plane. Many examples and drawings and applications.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Simple Machines
During this lesson plan, students learn about the six types of simple machines. They define each type of machine, experiment with each type, utilize the Internet to explore each type of machine and build their own simple machine. This...
Other
Uss Constitution Museum: Constructing a Warship
USS Constitution was built as a fighting machine and utilized the six simple machines of science to accomplish the many tasks required of her. Students will identify and manipulate these machines to create inventions that would have made...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Patients in a Wheelchair
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on an inclined plane.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines: The Screw
Scholastic provides an in-depth description here of a simple machine called The Screw. Also provides a picture and several examples for understanding.
NASA
Nasa: The Screw
In this lesson plan students learn how to make a screw and compare how many turns it takes for different screws to embed into a piece of wood.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inclined Planes: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of the inclined plane. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Inclined Planes."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inclined Planes & Net Force: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to find the net force acting on objects, at rest or, sliding across inclined planes. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Inclined Planes & Net Force."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects at Rest on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 1
This lesson explains what forces are acting on objects which are resting on an inclined plane. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Objects at Rest on an Inclined Plane."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2
This lesson explains what forces are action on objects which are sliding across an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 1
This lesson explains what forces are action on objects which are sliding across an inclined plane. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice W/ Inclined Planes: Lesson 2
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the net force acting on objects at rest or sliding across inclined planes. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Inclined Planes."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2
This lesson demonstrates how to draw free-body diagrams for objects at rest or sliding on an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Machines: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce the six types of simple machines and show how machines can increase efficiency by reducing work input needed. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Simple Machines."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Machines: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce the six types of simple machines and show how machines can increase efficiency by reducing work input needed. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Simple Machines."