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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Distance, Time and Speed Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This game is designed to help students mentally figure out distances, speeds or time for objects moving at constant speed. A video will help with use of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nWhvhO6pXo&feature=youtu.be
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Special Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical approach to special relativity, giving all the events and names in the history of discovery of special relativity. Many links to these individuals.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ladybug Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Join the ladybug in an exploration of rotational motion. Rotate the merry-go-round to change its angle, or choose a constant angular velocity or angular acceleration. Explore how circular motion relates to the bug's x,y position,...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Learning Center: Gas Laws and Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
From the companion web site for the Contemporary College Physics textbook. An ideal gas law simulation in which the motion of individual particles inside a closed container is simulated. The number of particles, external pressure, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are the Kinematic Formulas?

For Students 9th - 10th
Featured are the kinematic formulas or main equations you can use to analyze situations with constant acceleration.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...
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Study Guide
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Working With Parabolic Projectile Paths

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the free-fall constants and gravity acceleration equations, we can determine many things about the position, velocity, and speed of a projectile. Here are a few examples and explanations. This is a great review for the AP Calculus...
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.2 Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define mass and inertia and to understand Newton's First Law of Motion: There exists an inertial frame of reference such that a body at rest remains at rest, or, if in motion, remains in...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will collect and analyze data of their walking speed. They will compare their speed to an outside speed walker. They will determine their speed every 20 meters up to 100 meters. They will complete five trials to...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Analyzing the Motion of a Marble Down a Ramp

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab activity involves rolling a marble down a ramp where the students can investigate constant acceleration motion. The students then make a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph in order to investigate the change in...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Plane and the Package

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider a plane moving with a constant speed at an elevated height above the Earth's surface. In the course of its flight, the plane drops a package from its luggage compartment. This animation depicts such a situation. The path of the...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Truck and the Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Free Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use this opportunity to understand accelerated motion in two dimensions, free fall.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix Series: Uniform Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Conserving Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will find both the kinetic and potential energies as the cart rolls down the ramp. They will find the sum of the two energies, and show that this value is constant at all times.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does It Take to Win the Race?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with two cars that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. They then determine which object will win the race, as well as how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 1 Part 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the distance traveled by an object by looking at the velocity vs. time graph. All velocities are constant.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Timing a Speedbot!

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students strengthen their communication skills by first learning the meaning of base units and derived units. Then, working in groups, students measure the time for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and calculate the robots' average speeds at...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Calculating Air Resistance Using the Monte Carlo Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use Vernier motion detector and Logger Pro software to first discover if air resistance of an industrial size coffee filter is a vtm or vt2m relationship (vt = terminal velocity). Once this relationship is found it will be...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Circular Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
This program gives students a visual representation of why an object moving in a circle at constant speed is accelerating. This program will guide students through a method of calculating the circular acceleration based on the change in...
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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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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Special & General Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Georgia State University provides an interesting chart form of the ideas of relativity. Column 1 - Idea, Column 2 - Experiment. Each item is linked to its own page of explanation, which is well done. A nice type of...

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