Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Weight?
This article on weight will help you prepare for the AP Physics test. Included are example problems to help you practice.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Best Amount of Water to Fly a Bottle Rocket
In this rocket experiment, young scholars will investigate the question, "Which amount of water will cause the rocket to stay in the air the longest?" Students will compare how long the rocket was in the air with how much water was in...
Other
Easy Science for Kids: All About Force: Pushing and Pulling
Students will understand that pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions. Students investigate the effects of these different pushes and pulls.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Physics Quizzes: Force, Mass Acceleration
Assess your understanding of force, mass and acceleration and the relationship amongst the three with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is offered.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Colliding Cars
Try to predict what will happen in three different bumper car collisions. For each collision, you'll be shown two possible outcomes.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Would You Weigh Less in an Elevator?
Video that uses an elevator in motion to describe the relationship among weight, gravity, and relative motion. [3:36] Includes a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Inclined Planes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will identify how work and force are figured out on inclined planes as well as how to apply Newton's Second Law of Motion to them.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rockets
This unit teaches students how and why engineers design satellites to benefit life on Earth as well as allows students an opportunity to explore motion, rockets and rocket motion. Students discover that the motion of all objects...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Force: Linear Momentum
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers linear momentum, how momentum and force are related, how momentum fits into Newton's second law of motion, and how to calculate...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rocket Power
By making and testing simple balloon rockets, students acquire a basic understanding of Newton's third law of motion as it applies to rockets. Using balloons, string, straws and tape, they see how rockets are propelled by expelling...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force
By the end of this section, you will be able to define linear momentum, explain the relationship between linear momentum and force, state Newton's second law of motion in terms of linear momentum, and calculate linear momentum given mass...
Columbia University
The Climate System: Atmospheric Forces, Balances, and Weather Systems
The large scale horizontal flow of air in the atmosphere is driven by the imbalance of net radiation over the globe. This resource introduces us to the physical laws governing the horizontal motion of air. It also describes types of...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Gravity
Combined with aspects of circular motion, students discover that Kepler's third law follows directly from the law of universal gravitation. This unit will expand upon the conservation of energy principle for problems beyond the confines...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Linear Momentum and Collisions
This physics tutorial aims to model and predict not the motion of just one object, but rather what happens when two or more objects collide. The concept of momentum will be the main focus of this module.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Momentum & Newton's Second Law of Motion
This lesson explains how momentum is related to Newton's second law of motion.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Momentum & Newton's Second Law
This lesson explains how momentum is related to Newton's second law of motion.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Mechanics Problems: Force and Linear Kinematics Problem
This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich problems pertaining to force, Newton's second law of motion, and linear kinematics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Aerodynamics: What Causes Lift?
How does an airplane stay aloft when upside down? This media-rich essay from the NOVA Web site offers an explanation based on Newton's third law of motion.
Other
Federal Aviation Administration: Anti Gravity Marble [Pdf]
This experiment examines Newton's Second Law of Motion. Learn how centrifugal and centripetal force help to keep a marble in a can when turned upside down.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Introduction to Rocket Propulsion
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses Newton's third law of motion in the context of rocket and jet engine propulsion. Students learn how to calculate a rocket's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force: Introduction to Rocket Propulsion
By the end of this section, you will be able to state Newton's third law of motion, explain the principle involved in propulsion of rockets and jet engines, derive an expression for the acceleration of the rocket , discuss the factors...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Gravity Force Lab
An interactive simulation that teaches about gravitational force, Newton's Third Law, and force pairs by varying properties affect the gravitational force exerted between two objects. This simulation can either be downloaded or played...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
NASA
Nasa Glenn Research Center: Rocket Car (Class Activity)
Students discover Newton's Third Law of Motion by constructing a rocket car.
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