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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Good Vibrations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will investigate the motion of a mass moving up and down on a spring. They collect data for the position, velocity, and acceleration of the mass's motion and examine the relationship between them.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
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Interactive
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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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vectors and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the properties of velocity, acceleration, and force vectors in this illustrated article.
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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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Other

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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Interactive
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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Handout
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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Lesson Plan
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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eBook
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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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: How Fast? And How Far?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students understand the physics of a free falling object through these illustrated example problems.
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Other

Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Speed Time Graphs to Find an Equation

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated example of a speed-time graph plotted with speed on the vertical axis against time on the horizontal axis.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Quotient Rule and Higher Derivatives

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the lesson students study the derivatives of rational functions and higher derivatives of polynomial functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Kinematics Conceptual Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
This page provides practice questions on each of the conceptual content sections in AP Physics: Chapter 2: Kinematics.

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