Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Student Analysis: Determine the Acceleration of a Toy Car
For this activity, students measure the displacement and elapsed time of a moving toy car using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter. They then calculate average and final velocity, and the average acceleration, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Speed and Acceleration Using Tornado Tubes
In this activity, students will use a plywood ramp and various tornado tubes (made from tornado tube connectors and 2 liter pop bottles) to calculate the average speed of the tornado tubes. They will set up 4 investigations filling the 2...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Displacement During Constant Acceleration
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, speed, and acceleration, and then explore problems and graphs involving one-dimensional motion.
University of California
Ucla: Speed and Velocity
Discusses the meaning of velocity in terms of a graphical representation. Calculus-based discussion. Good graphics.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Acceleration Challenge
Challenges students to get as many vehicle accelerations as possible in a 3 minute time frame. Students must push on the gas to accelerate their vehicle and then use the change in velocity and the change in time to get the acceleration...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors
The goal of this activity is to get students to think about what is happening when velocity and acceleration vectors point in different directions. The pictures, sentences, and cars used allow the students to picture each situation in...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Average Acceleration
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore average acceleration and find out how it relates to velocity and displacement.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration [Pdf]
Use this printable physics activity which allows learners to practice problems describing motion using acceleration.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Physics: Angular Acceleration
From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses uniform and non-uniform circular motion, how to calculate angular acceleration, and the relationship between linear and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Velocity and Acceleration Vectors
This 11-problem quiz/practice helps students to understand how velocity and acceleration can be represented using vectors.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.4 Acceleration
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Define and distinguish between instantaneous acceleration and average acceleration; and Calculate acceleration given initial time, initial velocity, final time, and final...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Centripetal Acceleration?
Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?
How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Forces and Motion: Acceleration
A video and a short quiz on acceleration.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Velocity Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to draw a velocity-time graph and what it represents.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Acceleration
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of acceleration and examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration: At a Glance
This article talks about how acceleration is the change of velocity as time passes anytime we speed up or slow down, or change direction, we undergo acceleration.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Horizontal and Vertical Components of Velocity
Students learn how to describe the motion of projectiles numerically; specifically how the numerical values of the x and y components of the velocity and displacement change with time. Includes animations and interactive simulation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration Questions
Prepare for the MCAT with these acceleration questions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Acceleration
A slide show illustrating two types of acceleration as they are related to velocity and time. Learn how to solve a simple equation, and calculate average acceleration.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration
Learners interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: Uniform Acceleration
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the average acceleration formula, calculate the velocity of a falling ball, and then check your answer by dragging the point along the line in the given graph. After the activity, answer one...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Newton's Second Law: How Does Acceleration Change With Varying Forces?
In this lab activity, students investigate the effects of changing force on the acceleration of a lab cart testing Newton's Second Law of Motion. They will use distance and time to calculate velocity and create a graph representing their...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Centripetal Acceleration
In this activity, students observe the centripetal acceleration of an object in uniform circular motion. Relate the changes in velocity and radius to the centripetal acceleration.
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