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Unit Plan
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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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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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Super Spinners!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use this hands-on activity to demonstrate rotational inertia, rotational speed, angular momentum, and velocity. Students build at least two simple spinners to conduct experiments with different mass distributions and shapes, as they...
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Newtons Laws: Skydiving Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the motion of an object falling under the influence of air resistance. Force arrows and values are shown as the object falls, and a speedometer displays the speed of the object. The mass of the falling object and the...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom:einstein Theory of Special Relativity: Length Contraction

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the peculiar aspects of Einstein's theory of special relativity is that the length of objects moving at relativistic speeds undergoes a contraction along the dimension of motion. These animations depict this phenomena of length...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Circular Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
This program gives students a visual representation of why an object moving in a circle at constant speed is accelerating. This program will guide students through a method of calculating the circular acceleration based on the change in...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Circular Force Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the force required to keep an object moving in a circle. Students will be able to modify the mass of the object, the speed of the object and the size of the circle...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Velocity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will test a student's understanding of the relationships between location and motion as pertaining to time.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Direction of Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this short lab, students use Tonka trucks to observe the acceleration of a object as it initiates acceleration, maintains a steady speed, and slows to a stop.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Fundamentals of Space Time: Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this second installment of a three-part series on space-time, CERN scientists Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie use a space-time diagram to analyze the sometimes confounding motion of light. [4:50]
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy/momentum Ballistic Pendulum

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the pre-collision speed of a ball that has been captured by a ballistic pendulum.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: 2 D Momentum Conservation With Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the KE added to the system when a Kuiper Belt Object is hit with an explosive charge. Students must first look at the momentum of each piece after the explosion to determine the original speed of the Kuiper Belt...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Ice Bucket Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the maximum and minimum speeds for a bucket whirled in a vertical circle.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Ice Bucket Challenge Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the maximum and minimum speeds for a bucket whirled in a vertical circle.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Usra: Lunar and Planetary Institute: Hot Spot Activity [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will measure the distances between Hawaiian islands, and convert and graph their data to determine the speed of the Pacific Plate.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is the Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution?

For Students 9th - 10th
In a gas, there are lots of molecules traveling at lots of different speeds. Here's a framework for thinking about that.
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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
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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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Ground to Ground Soccer Kick Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that govern the behavior of a soccer ball that is kicked on an angle. The ball will start on the ground and end on the ground. Students will have control over the speed of the...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Satellite Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to allow students to explore different aspects of satellite motion. Students can vary the mass of the satellite, the orbital radius of the satellite and the body that the satellite is orbiting. Students can measure...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Velocity in a Ground Soccer Kick

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine where a soccer ball will land based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air and the maximum height obtained by the projectile. This problem does not take place on...
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Physics Aviary

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine where a soccer ball will land based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air and the maximum height obtained by the projectile. This problem does not take place on...
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Velocity Vector in 3 D

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A program that will randomly move an object from one location to another in three-dimensional space. You must determine the three components of the velocity vector that is created by this movement and also the speed of the object during...

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