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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Maxwell Speed & Velocity Dist.

For Students 9th - 10th
Adjust the temperature in this simulation to observe the effects to moving particles. Graphs can be created from collected data.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: How to Speed Up a Slow Grandfather: The Pendulum

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan students are "given one hour to solve a problem that a has caused a huge drop in sales" for a clock company. All clocks are five minutes slow. Because of this, they must find a way to put the clock back on time...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Projectile Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the horizontal distance travelled by a projectile. Students will be able to modify the starting height, initial speed and angle at which the projectile is fired....
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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: 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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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Pvc Freefall

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to give students practice collecting and analyzing data for the PVC Freefall Lab. Masses are dropped from different heights and the speed of the object as it passes through a photogate is calculated. The...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Friction to Projectile Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the landing location of a projectile that started as a box sliding across a rough surface. Students must first find the speed of the box when it has reached the end of the table and then treat the box as a...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Ground to Wall Soccer Kick Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine where a soccer ball will hit a wall based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air in milliseconds. This problem does not take place on Earth.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Launching a Satellite

For Students 6th - 8th
Do you think you could fire an "unpowered" object into orbit? By controlling the angle and speed at which the satellite is launch, students will try to launch a satellite into space with this computer model. Activity includes questions...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: May the Force Be With You: Drag

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This lesson plan explores the drag force on airplanes. The students will be introduced to the concept of conservation of energy and how it relates to drag. Students will explore the relationship between drag and the shape, speed and size...
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Cart and Brick Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Students analyze a collision between a moving cart and a dropped brick that lands on top of it. They use position-time data to determine the pre- and post-collision speeds of the cart and the brick. The individual momentum values of the...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Maximum Range

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...
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Website
Other

Einstein Archives Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Online access to portions of Einstein's original papers and manuscripts.
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Handout
University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Structure and Properties of Materials/thermal Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including thermal expansion). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics. Humor,...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: The Doppler Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
At this tutorial, a happy bug in the center of a circular water puddle is used to describe the Doppler effect.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Height of a Firework

For Students 9th - 10th
In this problem you must determine the height of a firework explosion above the ground.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Drone Delivery Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine where a drone should be when it releases its package so that the object lands on the target.
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Simultaneous Events Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation showing how relative motion affects event order in special relativity. Manipulate the relative speed of two simultaneous events and observe the results.
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Activity
University of Oregon

Uo: Cannon Simulator: Experimental Instructions

For Students 9th - 10th
This virtual experiment is designed to let the student measure the relation between muzzle velocity (which determines projectile energy), gravitational potential and the effects of frictional drag caused by wind speed blowing opposite to...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:pendulum Challenge

For Students 1st - 5th
Observe the impact of weight on the speed of a pendulum.

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