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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 2 D Projectile Motion: Vectors and Comparing Multiple Trajectories

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Angles and Units

For Students 9th - 10th
The application of trigonometry concepts to calculate complex forces of angular velocity and acceleration is illustrated.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Types of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will distinguish between and/or interpret the types of motion.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: One Dimensional Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
Using only two of our fundamental units, time and displacement students will build a framework to predict the motion of objects, starting with one dimensional motion.
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Website
Stanford University

Stanford University: Conventionality of Simultaneity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Stanford University is on the topic of simultaneity in relativity.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation: Problems and Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers a list of 50 problems/exercises to solve based on the content of Chapter 6: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation from the AP Physics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation: Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of 23 questions covering the major concepts of Chapter 6: Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation from the AP Physics online text.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sports in Physics: Measuring Velocity in a Mini Olympic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site on Physics. It is a student lab investigation in which students compare the concept and quantity of velocity to that of acceleration. Includes directions, ideas for assessment, a...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Seeing in the Dark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to emulate a time vs. distance graph on their graphing calculator using the CBR2. Next, the CBR2 is "swept" across an area in which three students are standing to...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Centripetal Force Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics activity, young scholars will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics lab, students build a container to safely deliver two eggs from the top of the school. Students calculate average velocity, acceleration, momentum, and the amount of force as it hits the ground. If their egg breaks, they...
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Interactive
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Car Race Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this simulation of kinematics. Test a race car with a constant acceleration versus a race car with constant velocity.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Vectors and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the properties of velocity, acceleration, and force vectors in this illustrated article.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Students apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Circular Motion Principles for Satellites

For Students 9th - 10th
From The Physics Classroom. Uses easy- to-understand language to discuss how circular motion principles apply to the motion of satellites. Describes the tangential velocity and centripetal acceleration of a satellite. Includes many...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Mathematics of Satellite Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
The mathematics associated with the motion of satellites is described. Equations (for period, velocity, acceleration and force) are stated, symbols described, and sample problems solved. Includes five practice problems with solutions and...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Newton's Law Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the acceleration of an object on a frictionless horizontal surface. The simulation will give the students a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph....
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary

For Students 10th - 12th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Maximizing Kinetic Energy: An Investigation Using Marbles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using marbles to construct a marble run, learners will learn about projectile motion, kinetic energy, potential energy, final velocity, and forces.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Motion in One Dimension

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on exercise allows students to view and calculate the various factors involved in one-dimensional motion. Students will use remote control vehicles to illustrate the linear motion. Students will use the information gathered...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Little Little G

For Students 10th - 12th
Could the altitude of the city hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games have an effect on performance in the long jump? This challenging activity encourages mathematical reflection, investigation and discussion as students explore how...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: 10 Olympic Starters

For Students 10th - 12th
These 10 questions encourage students to explore mathematical modelling in the context of several different sports including track and field athletics, shooting, football, tennis, basketball and gymnastics. This activity is designed to...

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