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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Moving Man, Motion, Velocity, Acceleration, Position

For Students 9th - 10th
Enhance study of motion, velocity, acceleration, position and graphing with this interactive simulation.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Velocity and Acceleration Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
This 11-problem quiz/practice helps students to understand how velocity and acceleration can be represented using vectors.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's Law for falling objects including terminal velocity, the three stages of falling, a diagram showing what happens to the speed of a skydiver from airplane to ground, velocity-time graphs for falling...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 5.2 Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Drag Forces

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define drag force and model it mathematically, discuss the applications of drag force, define terminal velocity, and perform calculations to find terminal velocity.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: College Physics: Drag Forces

For Students 11th - 12th
In the following tutorial, students will learn how to express mathematically the drag force and also discuss its applications. They will also define terminal velocity and determine the terminal velocity given mass.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Egg Cellent Landing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this activity is to recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and students will perform several velocity calculations. Also,...
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Air Resistance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the Motion Detector to measure the effect of air resistance on falling objects. They determine how air resistance and mass affect the terminal velocity of a falling object and then choose a force model that fits the data.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Free Fall and Air Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson in high school physics on Newton's Second Law of Motion provides a discussion of free fall and air resistance, and answers, "Why do objects which encounter air resistance ultimately reach a terminal velocity?" and "In...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA uses a colorful graphic to illustrate why objects reach terminal velocity. Provides equation for the terminal velocity of an object. Graphic is accompanied by a simple explanation.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Particle Calculations

For Students 9th - 10th
Apply what you've learned to calculate the position and velocity of a particle over time with this 8-problem quiz/practice.
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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Calculating Air Resistance Using the Monte Carlo Method

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use Vernier motion detector and Logger Pro software to first discover if air resistance of an industrial size coffee filter is a vtm or vt2m relationship (vt = terminal velocity). Once this relationship is found it will be...
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Website
University of Virginia

Uva: The Real World Air Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
A contrast of Galileo and Aristotle's view of inertia and motion. Describes air resistance force and how its reality seems to initially support Aristotle's view.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Newton's Laws of Motion and Projectiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, online labs, virtual simulations, and video clips, students learn about Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Elephant and Feather: Air Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
The concept of air resistance is discussed in terms of why a heavier object falls faster than a lighter object when both dropped from the same height. In this discussion and animation, an elephant and feather are used as examples.
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PPT
Other

St. Chris Physics: The Physics of Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustration provides an overview of the scientific process of when a skydiver steps out of a plane.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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Website
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Skydiving

For Students 9th - 10th
The Physics Classroom offers this animation depicting the forces acting upon a falling skydiver.
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eBook
NASA

Nasa: The Way Things Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA compares free falling motion to falling with air resistance. Discusses Galileo's experiment. Explains why we believe all objects free fall with the same acceleration.

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