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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Newton's Third Law?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers a description and real-life examples of Newton's Third Law. Practice questions are included to test your knowledge!
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Forces, Acceleration and Newton's Laws Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's First Law: an object remains in the same state of motion unless a resultant force acts on it. If the resultant force on an object is zero, this means: a stationary object stays stationary; a moving object...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Inertia: An Object in Motion Will Tend to Stay in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is a take off of Galileo's experiment with the inclined planes to show that an object in motion would stay in a straight line motion if no outside forces acted were acting on it. For this version, students will roll a ball...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Projectile Motion: Creating a Catapult

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is for 9th grade physical science students. It begins with an inquiry-based lesson using a projectile motion computer simulation. It culminates with students building a catapult; applying and connecting science knowledge from...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Newton's Law of Inertia the Motorcyclist

For Students 9th - 10th
Without a seat belt, the rider of a motorcycle is more likely to maintain its state of motion after running into an obstacle. The animation here depicts this scenario.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.5 Normal, Tension, and Other Examples of Force

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define normal and tension forces, apply Newton's laws of motion to solve problems involving a variety of forces, and use trigonometric identities to resolve weight into components.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Newton's Second Law

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Break down how the relationship between acceleration and mass directly relates to the mass of an object.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Newton's Third Law

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand why for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Newton's Second Law of Motion: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces Newton's second law of motion. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Newton's Second Law of Motion."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Newton's Third Law of Motion & Acceleration: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how Newton's third law of motion can help determine the acceleration of interacting objects. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Newton's Third Law of Motion & Acceleration."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Newton's Second Law of Motion & Free Fall: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains how Newton's second law of motion can be used to understand free fall. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Newton's Second Law of Motion & Free Fall."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Newton's Third Law of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on Newton's third law of motion.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Newton's Third Law of Motion Stated Verbally

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of Newton's third law of motion and explains how it is experienced.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Newton's Second Law of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems using Newton's second law of motion.
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Isaac Newton

For Students K - 1st
Brief biographical sketch of Isaac Newton, famous scientist whose discoveries include the law of gravitation, three laws of motion, reflective telescope, and calculus.
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eBook
Libre Text

Uc Davis Geo Wiki: Newton's 2nd Law

For Students 9th - 10th
The wind blowing over your house, the Gulf Stream flowing into the North Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Europe, the jet stream at 10 km altitude. All these different flows in the atmosphere and in the ocean can be understood using ideas...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Flying With Style

For Teachers 10th - 12th
As students begin to understand the physics behind thrust, drag, and gravity and how these relate these to Newton's three laws of motion, groups assemble and launch the rockets that they designed in the associated lesson.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Sir Isaac Newton and Le Bron James

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how the laws of motion apply to basketball. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System (No Friction)

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must find out different things for a series of objects moving as a system.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Com Padre: Science on a Skateboard Applications of Newton's Third Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, pupils explore Newton's Third Law of Motion. It involves an activity where they throw a medicine ball while seated on a wheeled cart with minimal friction between the cart and the floor. After completing...
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Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Newton's Second Law Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
A short interactive activity to do an experiment using Newton's Second Law of Motion.
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Quia

Quia: Newton's Laws Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
A short quiz on Newton's famous laws of motion. Has ten multiple-choice questions.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Horse and Cart

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about Newton's third law of motion, calculations in two dimensions, and the interaction of multiple objects in the context of a horse pulling a cart.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Science of Swinging

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars learn what a pendulum is and how it works in the context of amusement park rides. While exploring the physics of pendulums, they are also introduced to Newton's first law of motion - about continuous motion and inertia.