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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 11th - 12th
This page features a summary of each section of Chapter 6: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation from the AP Physics online text.
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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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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Applications of Indefinite Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
Displacement, velocity, and acceleration are determined in real world problems using the indefintie integral. Several examples alllow you to see the process at work.
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Derivadas. Aplicaciones. Optimizacion.

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. This interactive unit is intended to show you how to calculate the derivative of a function and the application of the derivative in other sciences.
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Activity
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Derivadas Laterales

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive unit is intended to show by graphing and calculations, the elements involved in the study of the growth of a functions and its relation to the definition of derivative.
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Study Guide
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Free Fall Constants for Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
When you work with equations that show position, velocity, acceleration of objects that are flying or falling through the air, you will be using the constant that is the acceleration due to gravity. View formulas, explanations, and...
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Activity
Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
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Unit Plan
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Curvilinear Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Using parametric equations, velocity and acceleration values are determined for objects in curvilinear motion.
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
A short interactive activity to show the movement of a projectile. You can change the values of the initial height, velocity, angle of inclination, the mass and the gravitational acceleration.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Defying Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked how acceleration, mass, momentum and velocity are involved in mountain boarding. [0:32]
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Mechanics of Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the mechanics of solids. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 Dimensional Kinematics

For Students 6th - 8th
An activity in which average speed is calculated for a ball sliding along an inclined plane. This speed is compared to various instantaneous speeds along the incline.
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Website
MadSci Network

The Mad Scientist Network: Bouncing Rubber Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
A question and answer format is used to relate elastic potential energy to the bounce of a rubber ball. Explanation of this simple phenomenon is thorough, complete, and free of trite statements.
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you think of when you hear the word motion? Are you moving right now? You may not think so, but you are. Remember, the Earth is moving around the Sun, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. Everything in the universe...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Position vs. Time Graphs?

For Students 9th - 10th
What can you learn from graphs that relate position and time and how are they useful? Article relates what the verticle axis, slope, and curvature represents on a position graph and provides examples.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Simple Harmonic Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will discover the period of time of one oscillation, the frequency of oscillation, the object displacement, its velocity, and its acceleration. They will also discover how to apply the principles of conservation of...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Fitting Models to Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A basic premise of science is that much of the physical world can be described mathematically and many physical phenomena are predictable. This scientific outlook took place in Europe during the late...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-lesson e-textbook covering topics in one dimension kinematics. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, and quick, interactive comprehension checks along the way.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion/forces in Two Dimensions: Projectile's Trajectory

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated tutorial discusses the horizontal and vertical components of a projectile's motion; specific attention will be given to the presence/absence of forces, accelerations, and velocity.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Identifying Graphs for Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Match graphs with the correct scenario for the projectile motion by understanding velocity, acceleration, and displacement.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Vectors and Comparing Multiple Trajectories

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems dealing with displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors for horizontally launched projectiles. In these practice problems, students will compare initial speed and time in the air for multiple projectiles.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Angles and Units

For Students 9th - 10th
The application of trigonometry concepts to calculate complex forces of angular velocity and acceleration is illustrated.

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