Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Work to Ke Lab
This lab is designed to have students discover the relationship between the work that is done by a force and the speed gained by the object experiencing the force. Students can adjust the strength of the force. They can decide how much...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary
This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Vectors and Comparing Multiple Trajectories
Practice problems dealing with displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors for horizontally launched projectiles. In these practice problems, students will compare initial speed and time in the air for multiple projectiles.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration: At a Glance
This article talks about how acceleration is the change of velocity as time passes anytime we speed up or slow down, or change direction, we undergo acceleration.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Weightlessness Experiment
Demonstrate how water and a cup fall at the same rate of speed.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Newton's First Law?
Students are introduced to the concepts of force, inertia, and Newton's first law of motion: objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.This lesson is the first in a series...
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Jean Bertrand Leon Foucault
A lengthy biographical sketch from The New Advent of Jean-Bertand-Leon Foucault (1819-1868 CE) physicist and mechanician. Discusses his upbringing, scientific work, major accomplishments and published articles. Please note that "The...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Downhill Race
An activity that explores how two cylinders that are identical in shape and mass may travel down a hill differently due to how their mass is distributed. Learn how the distribution of mass in an object can affect its translational...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Distance Between Stars
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use parallax to measure distances to stars.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Kinetic Theory, a Brief Review
The derivation of the Boltzmann distribution in detail. Shows calculations and graphs, with links to animations and video to further explain.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Formulas for Problem Solving
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Calculate distances, rates and times by using formulas
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Analysis: Parabolas and the Distance Formula
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of a parabola, exploring a parabola using the distance formula.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Drone Delivery Problem
Students must determine where a drone should be when it releases its package so that the object lands on the target.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Kinematics Conceptual Questions
This page provides practice questions on each of the conceptual content sections in AP Physics: Chapter 2: Kinematics.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Applications of Trigonometry
Dr. Math answers a word problem involving the use of vectors.
Other
Fear of Physics: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Fear of Physics uses animations and simple language to teach the theory of relativity.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Kinetic Theory of Gases
Takes the Boltzmann distribution mathematics and explains it. Not a simple site, but does provide nice historical links in addition to high-level explanation of the distribution.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Applications of Waves in Your Everyday Life
This site offers a variety of everyday activities and everyday experiences in which waves or sound waves play a role.
NASA
Nasa: The Rocket Motor
An online version of a book pertaining to task of launching rockets into space and subsequently navigating them through space. The first several "chapters" (pages) describe the influence of gravity on Earth and the barriers which it...
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