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Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Elevator Ride Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever felt that queasy feeling in a moving elevator? Explore the physics behind the sensations of weightlessness and weightiness. Teacher notes and a downloadable handout are also provided.
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture covers Newton's three laws of motion. You can watch the lecture on video or listen to audio. A transcript of the lecture and practice problems are also provided.
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Unknown Type
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Car on a Turn Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the force of friction on a car on a turn and the maximum speed the car could navigate a turn.
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Unknown Type
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Forces on Incline Problem Medium

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must find out force normal on an object on an incline at the angle at which the object is first about to slip.
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Unknown Type
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy on Incline Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the distance a box will move up an incline based on energy conservation. There will be friction present and some of the original KE will turn into heat.
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Unknown Type
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Power of Motor for Billy on Hill (Level 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the power that is being exerted by a motor to pull a person up a frictionless incline.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Zona Land: Mechanics and Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
An exceptional tutorial on the topic of vectors that offers many helpful graphics, some of which are interactive.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Centripetal Force

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and practice problems, students explore the centripetal force requirement. So for an object moving in a circle, there must be an inward force acting upon it in order to cause its inward acceleration.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Equations and Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive physics tutorial, students will take a more qualitative approach to some collision problems. The questions provide a real test of conceptual understanding of momentum conservation in collisions.
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eBook
Other

Uc Santa Cruz: Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
A physics definition of collisions with examples to illustrate the concept and related links to problems and solutions.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Air Resistance: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems using Newton's second law of motion, when accounting for air resistance. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Air Resistance."
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Applications of Integrals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the TI-89 to find the area between curves, find arc length, and solve first and second order differential equations. Examples in the activity use calculator screenprints and keystroke instructions to demonstrate the use of the...