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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Freefall Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts and skills for acceleration due to gravity, including analyzing motion of objects in freefall.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Distance and Displacement Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review key concepts, equations, and common misconceptions related to distance and displacement.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Free Body Diagram: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of the free-body diagram. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Free-Body Diagram."
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Second Law Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for Newton's second law of motion, including how to analyze motion in the x- and y-directions independently.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's First Law Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for Newton's first law of motion, including the difference between mass and weight.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Third Law Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts and skills for Newton's third law of motion, including how to identify action-reaction pairs.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inelastic Collision Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts and skills for inelastic collisions. Understand how to determine if a collision is elastic or inelastic.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vibrations

For Students 9th - 10th
To understand the concept and properties of vibrations and periodic motions such as the Simple Harmonic motion.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wow! That Captures It!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn how motion capture (mo-cap) technology enables computer animators to create realistic effects. They learn the importance of center of gravity in animation and how to use the concept of center of gravity in writing an...
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Handout
Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Cherenkov Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Cherenkov light is explained here as the light emitted when a charged particle travels through matter faster than light would be able to. This would be slower, however, than the maximum speed of light, which occurs in a vacuum. "Explain...
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Conservation of Angular Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the concept of angular momentum of objects in two dimensions and how rotational motion is determined.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Amusement Park Ride: Ups and Downs in Design

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This unit has students design and build foam tubing roller coasters. The design process integrates energy concepts as they test and evaluate their designs that address the task as an engineer would. The goal is for students to understand...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Airplanes (2 3)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This paper airplane lesson plan helps learners learn about certain concepts like air resistance, motion, and aerodynamics.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Friction: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Engineering Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to engineering mechanics. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and cover...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Centripetal Acceleration Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Centripetal motion can be a complex topic so use this website to review the key concepts, equations, and skills for centripetal motion. Also, the connection to centripetal acceleration is discussed here.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A website that reviews over "the key concepts, equations, and common misconceptions related to acceleration."
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Center of Mass and Two Dimensional Collisions Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference page that reviews two-dimensional collisions with key concepts, equations, and skills to understand center of mass motion.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Magnetic Launcher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore electromagnetism and engineering concepts using optimization techniques to design an efficient magnetic launcher. Groups start by algebraically solving the equations of motion for the velocity at the time when a...