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Particle Models in Two Dimensions

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this motion worksheet, learners draw and label the trajectory of objects including the x-component and y-component of the velocity. Students calculate acceleration and speed. This worksheet has 7 problems to solve.
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Straight Line Motion with a Stomper

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners explore average speed, and graph distances and time.  In this speed and velocity lesson students complete a lab then calculate distances, acceleration and velocity and graph the data.
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Motion

For Students 8th - 12th
In this motion worksheet, students will read 8 statements about displacement and velocity and determine if the statement is true or false. Then students will fill in the blank for 8 statements on motion. Finally, students will compare...
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Secondary Robot

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the forces acting on a stationary/constant velocity robot. In this physics lesson, students draw a free body diagrams of the forces. They explain the difference between zero acceleration and zero net force.
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Practice Problems for the Net Force Particle Model

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this forces worksheet, young scholars practice writing net force equations and solving for acceleration and distance objects travel in different situations. This worksheet has 7 problems to solve.
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Physics of Flight

For Students 7th - 12th
In this flight activity, learners will review the physics behind flight including lift, acceleration, and thrust. Students will also understand the Bernoulli effect. This activity has 6 true or false, 6 short answer, and 8 matching...
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Unit III: 3

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this unit III: 3 worksheet, students describe motion in words and graph drawings. Students calculate the instantaneous velocity and average velocity. Students also graph the displacement of the object in the word problems.
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Graphing Your Motion

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate velocity and speed. In this Vernier Probe instructional activity, 7th graders will use probes to calculate motion, speed, and velocity of an object. They will create a graph of their collected data.
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Mechanics

For Students Higher Ed
In this mechanics worksheet, students determine the magnitude of the velocity of a given object, the initial speed of this object, plus find the maximum acceleration and the period of oscillation of the system given. This worksheet has 2...
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Hover Above the Earth

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders build a balloon hovercraft, take direct measurements, answer critical questions, and make calculations using the data gathered in order to see the concept of acceleration as a change in velocity. They use a worksheet...
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Free Fall

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the law of gravity and how an object can accelerate while going through a free fall. They examine the influence of air resistance and how it can influence the momentum of an object. The lesson contains background...
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The Mysterious Hexagon on Saturn!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Saturn worksheet, students use a photograph of a hexagon feature on Saturn to solve three problems. These include finding the time it takes for the jet stream to complete one circuit around the hexagon, to find the size of the...
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When Push Comes to Crunch

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in an experiment which uses an inclined plane and balls of various masses to determine the effect a large object has on a small object. They study velocity, momentum, gravity and forces.
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That Mu You Do

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are told that the weight of a car is equal to its mass multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity. When a car is at react on a horizontal road, there must be a normal force with which the road pushes up on the car to keep it...
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Little Red Corvette

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the acceleration of a car.  In this acceleration of a car lesson, students make a scatter plot of corvette acceleration data.  Students find a model to fit the data by taking the integral of the curve created by the...
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Single-Step Vector Worksheet

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this forces worksheet, students draw the indicated vector and show the components into which it is resolved and then calculate for acceleration, speed, or momentum. This worksheet has 12 word problems.
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Exploration 3: Introduction to Definite Integrals

For Students 11th - 12th
In this integral worksheet, learners estimate the definite integral and find the derivative of functions. They graph functions and determine the range of the velocity. This three-page worksheet contains approximately 40 problems.
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Integrated Algebra Practice: Square Roots

For Students 8th - 10th
In this square roots worksheet, students calculate the square roots of whole numbers and rational numbers. Seven problems have multiple choice answers. The remaining 13 problems are short answer. One problem involves graphing a function....
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Marbles in Motion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how to play marbles while learning the scientific concepts of force, motion, mass, acceleration, friction, and inertia.
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Vectors: How Much Force Can You Apply

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This lesson entails the viewing of two videos to get an overview of force and its application. The lesson covers how vectors use force in real-world situations.
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Vectors

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
High schoolers listen to a lecture and complete a number of problems as they go. There are a variety of examples given and they are guided through the problem solving steps for each of the real-world scenarios regarding the purpose of...
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Vectors: Follow That Arrow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Vectors and their connection to motion. A video will be presented to provide information for the class to use methods of solving vectors with and without grids. Real-world physical concepts will be explored in reference to vectors.
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Speed & Velocity with Straw Rockets

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore calculating speed and velocity with Straw Rockets.
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MOTION IN A CIRCLE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore uniform circular motion, and the relation of its frequency of N revolutions/sec with the peripheral velocity v and with the rotation period T, and the "centripetal acceleration" of an object.

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