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The Physics Classroom: Refraction and Ray Model of Light: Refraction by Lenses
Students use this tutorial to investigate the refractive ability of converging and diverging lenses.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Image Formation Revisited
Students take an in-depth look at the physics behind image formation.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Converging Lenses
An illustrated tutorial which takes students step-by-step through the process of drawing ray diagrams.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Converging Lenses
The purpose of this tutorial is to summarize object-image relationships by dividing the possible object locations into five general areas or points.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Diverging Lenses
In this illustrated tutorial, students will see a specific method for constructing ray diagrams for double concave lenses.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: The Mathematics of Lenses
Using the Lens Equation and the Magnification Equations, students determine numerical information about image distance and image size.
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The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: The Anatomy of the Eye
An introduction to the human eye as it relates to the physics ray model of light and image formation.
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The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration vs. Constant Velocity
Observe the animation of the three cars. Use the animation to answer three questions about their acceleration and velocity.
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The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Rightward Velocity and Acceleration
Through an animated illustration of a dot diagram and time graphs, students learn about positive velocity and positive acceleration.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Newton's Law of Inertia the Motorcyclist
Without a seat belt, the rider of a motorcycle is more likely to maintain its state of motion after running into an obstacle. The animation here depicts this scenario.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Law of Inertia the Truck and Ladder
Students learn the basics of the law of inertia with this short tutorial and accompanying animation which demonstrates the motion.
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The Physics Classroom:vectors/projectiles:vector Addition:order Does Not Matter
An animated illustration helps students understand that the summative result of two or more vectors can be determined by a process of vector addition.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Plane and the Wind
Observe the three planes in an animation where each plane flies amidst a wind that blows at 20 mph. Learn how tailwinds affect the resultant velocities.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Monkey and the Zookeeper
Four different animated illustrations that show situations of bananas being thrown at a monkey in different gravity situations.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Gravity Free Environment
Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Throw With Gravity On
Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles: Throw at the Monkey With Gravity On
With this animation and explanation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a banana at a monkey in a normal gravity situation.
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The Physics Classroom:vectors and Projectiles:throw at a Slow Speed With Gravity
In this animation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a projectile in slow speed in a normal gravity situation.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles: Horizontally Launched Projectiles
With this animation, students can imagine a cannonball being launched from a cannon atop a very high cliff. Imagine as well that the cannonball does not encounter a significant amount of air resistance.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors/projectiles:non Horizontally Launched Projectiles
Visualize and read about launching an object from a non-horizontal position so that it becomes a projectile.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Maximum Range
Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Plane and the Package
Consider a plane moving with a constant speed at an elevated height above the Earth's surface. In the course of its flight, the plane drops a package from its luggage compartment. This animation depicts such a situation. The path of the...
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: The Truck and the Ball
Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...
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The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: The Astronaut Catch
Students imagine that they are hovering next to the space shuttle in earth-orbit, and bump into another astronaut of equal mass. If the two astronauts holds onto each other, then how fast do they move after the collision?