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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation: Problems and Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers a list of 50 problems/exercises to solve based on the content of Chapter 6: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation from the AP Physics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation: Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of 23 questions covering the major concepts of Chapter 6: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation from the AP Physics online text.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sports in Physics: Measuring Velocity in a Mini Olympic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site on Physics. It is a student lab investigation in which students compare the concept and quantity of velocity to that of acceleration. Includes directions, ideas for assessment, a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Seeing in the Dark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to emulate a time vs. distance graph on their graphing calculator using the CBR2. Next, the CBR2 is "swept" across an area in which three students are standing to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Angled Launch Projectile Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you predict how the components of projectile's velocity and acceleration change during their trajectory? This practice includes questions for students to test their problem solving skills with angled launch projectile vectors.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ramp: Forces and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore forces and motion as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Centripetal Force Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics activity, young scholars will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Good Vibrations Activity Modeling Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The student will investigate Hooke's law and the position, velocity and acceleration of an object oscillating vertically on a spring.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Kinematics Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students solve trigonometric equations and investigate kinematics. They calculate and graph the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of trigonometric functions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Collecting Ball Bounce Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many aspects relating to the motion of a bouncing ball can be modelled mathematically. The first stage in modelling the motion is to collect some data. The Calculator Base Laboratory or CBR is a motion detector that can be connected to a...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Car Race Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this simulation of kinematics. Test a race car with a constant acceleration versus a race car with constant velocity.
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PBS

Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Students apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
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Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Investigate Mass on Spring Oscillators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This experiment allows the period, displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a mass suspended on a spring to be investigated by data logging the output from a motion sensor. It is an example of simple harmonic motion.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular Motion Principles for Satellites

For Students 9th - 10th
From The Physics Classroom. Uses easy- to-understand language to discuss how circular motion principles apply to the motion of satellites. Describes the tangential velocity and centripetal acceleration of a satellite. Includes many...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Mathematics of Satellite Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematics associated with the motion of satellites is described. Equations (for period, velocity, acceleration and force) are stated, symbols described, and sample problems solved. Includes five practice problems with solutions and...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Scalars and Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Newton's Law Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the acceleration of an object on a frictionless horizontal surface. The simulation will give the students a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary

For Students 10th - 12th
This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Maximizing Kinetic Energy: An Investigation Using Marbles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using marbles to construct a marble run, learners will learn about projectile motion, kinetic energy, potential energy, final velocity, and forces.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Motion in One Dimension

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on exercise allows students to view and calculate the various factors involved in one-dimensional motion. Students will use remote control vehicles to illustrate the linear motion. Students will use the information gathered...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the explosion height and the time to explosion for a firework that is fired vertically upward and explodes at the point where it already coming back down again. Information about the planet will be given to them so that they can...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Oscillations Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this interactive to learn the physics behind oscillation.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular, Satellite, Rotational: Uniform Circular Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Uniform circular motion can be described as the motion of an object in a circle at a constant speed. This animation depicts this by means of a vector arrow.

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