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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Harmonic Motion: Find Speed, Velocity, Displace From Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice finding speed, velocity, and distance traveled for an oscillator from graphs of simple harmonic motion.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Velocity With a Video Camera

For Students 9th - 10th
A video camera records 30 "frames" or distinct images per second. (That's for an NTSC camera in the U.S. PAL cameras in other areas of the world take 25 frames per second.) You can use this fact to time events and measure velocity. One...
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Speed, Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Incline

For Students 9th - 10th
This applet allows the user to make observations about the relationship between speed and position and how both of these are affected by initial velocity and the incline on which the biker is traveling.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Motion: Investigating Motion Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students investigate motion graphs. Students predict what the distance-time graph and velocity time graph would look like for a student walking across the room for three different scenarios.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Arriving at a Certain Height Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine when a soccer ball reaches a given height based on the velocity with which it is kicked. Students are reminded that the ball will reach this height twice, once on the way up and once on the way down. Students must...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Motion Graph Matching

For Students 9th - 10th
You will be given a velocity vs. time graph for the motion of a car. Your job is to match the graph with your car by pushing on the gas or brake or coasting at the appropriate moments. Before you start the matching game, you must set the...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the instantaneous velocity based on a position vs. time graph.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on how to calculate average speed and distance traveled. It also explains how to convert different units of measure and provides a link to an assessment.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Your Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a Motion Detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 1 Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are finding the relative velocity between two objects using a position vs. time graph.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Circular Friction Test Track

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the maximum speed a car can go around a turn. Students will be able to modify the tires, road surface, the mass of the car, radius of the turn and the initial speed...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Table of Contents

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners examine motion with words, equations, diagrams, and graphs. Some topics investigated are position, velocity, acceleration, and free fall. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Two Dimensional Motion and Conservation of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.
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Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are finding the velocities of objects based on the position vs. time graphs they create.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Position Time Graphs

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Dungeon Simulation

For Students 6th - 9th
Experiment with changing velocity to help Tommy escape the dungeon.
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Other

Plan to Learn: Kinematics 1: Speedometer Cubed Lab (Physics)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine the speed of an object using three different methods and to compare the accuracy and precision of the results of each method.
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Physics4kids

Physics4 kids.com: Velocity, Motion and Speed Oh My

For Students 5th - 9th
This brief overview distinguishes speed and velocity. Vectors are explained along with acceleration and gravitation. Diagrams are used to help explain these concepts.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Questions: Physics Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of velocity and acceleration with this short quiz.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Answers: Physics Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
View the answers to a quiz about velocity and acceleration on this site.
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Other

Machine Head Software: Speed Distance Time Calculators

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of calculators to find the average speed, time, or distance depending on the variables given.
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Website
Other

Is the Speed of Light Constant?

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page discusses the question: "Is the Speed of Light Constant?" Discusses some of the history and experiments performed with light and the conclusions drawn from those findings.

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