CTE Skills
IND-PTCT - Atmospheric Cooling Towers
Atmospheric Cooling Towers use no mechanical devices to move air through the tower. They rely only on atmospheric conditions to do this. Atmospheric Cooling towers are classified into two categories. Natural Draft….and Hyperbolic In this...
Flipping Physics
Relative Motion Problem: Solving for the angle of the moving object
It is not obvious in all relative motion problems how to draw the vector diagrams. Sometimes the velocity of the object with respect to the Earth is not the hypotenuse of the velocity vector addition triangle. Here we address how to...
Flipping Physics
Introduction to Acceleration with Prius Brake Slamming Example Problem
This is an introduction to the concept of acceleration. There is also an example problem showing applying the brakes while driving a car in order to avoid hitting a basketball. Also included are common mistakes students make while...
Coach Dan Blewett
Pitching Velocity Tips - How To Throw Harder in Baseball
Learn how to throw harder in baseball and increase your pitching velocity with these five tips. Improve your mechanics and get easy to do drills.
Visual Learning Systems
Things in Motion: Acceleration
Upon viewing the Things in Motion video series, students will be able to do the following: Identify a moving object and describe its movement as related to its frame of reference. Provide examples of forces in everyday life such as a...
Brian McLogan
Determine when a particle is increasing
👉 Learn how to solve particle motion problems. Particle motion problems are usually modeled using functions. Now, when the function modeling the position of the particle is given with respect to the time, we find the speed function of...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Kinetic and Potential Energy of a Ball on a Ramp
Look at this nifty ramp you made! Let's roll some stuff off of it, shall we? Good thing we know all about potential energy and kinetic energy, because that will allow us to calculate all kinds of things, like the velocity of the ball at...
Coach Dan Blewett
Average Pitching Speed By Age: How Do You Stack Up?
What's the average pitching speed by age in baseball? If you're an aspiring pitcher, your velocity training is an important aspect of your game that can't be rushed. Learn about safe velocity development by age in this video.
Coach Dan Blewett
[LOVE THROWING] Day 17 - Pitch Submarine
The Love throwing program is for baseball and softball players - a 30-day program, each day a different fun throwing activity. https://danblewett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Love-Throwing-Program-Full-Guide.pdf
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Launching Things With Springs
You're a mischievous little physicist, aren't you? Well I guess there's no harm in projecting a toy into the air, especially if it's part of your scientific research. Given a spring constant and some other information, how high will this...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Inelastic Collisions at the Skating Rink
If you're strange enough to hits cats with pendulums, you're strange enough to throw frisbees at the skating rink. As you do this, you realize it's a great time to practice your physics, since you know about inelastic collisions. How...
Coach Dan Blewett
[LOVE THROWING] Day 19 - Don't Like It? Play Better
The Love throwing program is for baseball and softball players - a 30-day program, each day a different fun throwing activity. https://danblewett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Love-Throwing-Program-Full-Guide.pdf
Coach Dan Blewett
[LOVE THROWING] Day 15 - Make Outfield "Emanski" Throws
The Love throwing program is for baseball and softball players - a 30-day program, each day a different fun throwing activity. https://danblewett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Love-Throwing-Program-Full-Guide.pdf
Coach Dan Blewett
"Speeding His Bat Up" - What Does it Mean as a Baseball Pitcher?
In pitching strategy in baseball, it's a bad move to speed a hitter's bat up. But, what does this phrase actually mean? How does a pitcher speed someone else's bat up? Learn all about how changeups, curves and sliders
Coach Dan Blewett
We Need to Talk About Your Pitching Velocity Obsession.
Your pitching velocity obsession is getting out of control - if your self-worth is tied into the number you see on the radar gun? We've got a problem that more drills and training won't fix.
Coach Dan Blewett
[LOVE THROWING] Day 23 - Throw a Curveball
The Love throwing program is for baseball and softball players - a 30-day program, each day a different fun throwing activity. https://danblewett.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Love-Throwing-Program-Full-Guide.pdf
Amor Sciendi
Girl With a Pearl Earring, Physics of Seduction
The ultimate question in life, is she turning towards me or away? Check me out on Patreon, a voluntary online subscription service: https://www.patreon.com/AmorSciendi Girl With a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer This painting can be...
Flipping Physics
Work Energy Theorem Example Problem
A 5.0 kg mass experiences a net force causing the object to go from an initial velocity of 4.0 i - 3.0 j m/s to a final velocity of 2.0 i + 6.0 j m/s. What is the net work acting on the mass during this event? Want Lecture Notes?...
Virtually Passed
Position Velocity and Acceleration example 1
The equations which relate position, velocity and acceleration in 1 dimension are: dx/dt = v dv/dt = a
FuseSchool
MATHS - Trigonometry - Vectors
Physical properties like area, volume and temperature - are scalars, since we only need a number to represent them. But when we deal with other properties, such as velocity and acceleration, we may use both a ‘size’ and a direction. Such...
Flipping Physics
Conservation of Momentum Derivation and Rocket Demonstration
Newton’s Second Law in terms of Momentum is introduced and used to derive Conservation of Linear Momentum. A water rocket in slow motion is used to demonstrate this as well. Want Lecture Notes?...
NASA
NASA | Targeting Mars
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft...
Curated Video
pump impeller basics
In this video, we're going to discuss the basics of pump impellers. You'll learn what they are, what they do, and how they work.