Curated OER
Cool Cars
Young scholars travel one at a time in a straight-line path and attempt to maintain a constant velocity. While one student walks, jogs, or runs, the other group members time the "runner" while standing at five-meter intervals along the...
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Activity One Teacher Page: Vehicles In Motion
Young scholars identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent and which are dependent.
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Practice Problems for the Net Force Particle Model
For this forces worksheet, students 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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Investigating Force, Acceleration and Velocity
In this Investigating force, acceleration and velocity instructional activity, students read story problems involving constant velocity and acceleration, create a diagram of the problem, and consider the forces acting upon the item...
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Calculating Range for a Constant Velocity
Students read an explanation from the NASA Web-based "textbook", The Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics, then use the information in combination with data from other Web sites to solve single variable equations for distance (range), time,...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Acceleration
Topics covered include what acceleration is, the difference between constant and non-constant acceleration, acceleration in a free-falling object, the equation used to compute acceleration, and the difference between positive and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Free Fall
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use this opportunity to understand accelerated motion in two dimensions, free fall.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walk This Walk
In this activity, students use a motion detector to create Distance versus Time graphs. They experiment with various Distance-Time graphs and write mathematical descriptions of motion with constant velocity.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Special Relativity
A historical approach to special relativity, giving all the events and names in the history of discovery of special relativity. Many links to these individuals.