Curated OER
Physical Setting: Physics Exam 2004
Twelve pages of mostly multiple-choice questions comprise this comprehensive New York Regents physics exam. It covers an entire year's worth of physics curriculum and requires about three hours for completion. Review the questions to...
Curated OER
Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem - Magnetism
Middle and high schoolers use the Pythagorean Theorem to complete a table showing with the magnetic field strengths in given cities. They find the average value of the Earth's magnetic field and plot one of the three-dimensional values...
Curated OER
Sitting on Nails-Boyle's Law
Students experience pressure as a force per unit area in this experiment with a board of nails. In this physics lesson, students discover Boyle's law as they perform experiments with pressure.
Curated OER
Acceleration
Learners develop an understanding of velocity and to distinguish it from speed. To determine the difference between a scalar and a vector quantity. To explore how acceleration is derived from velocity and time.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Car: Velocity and Acceleration
Take control of a virtual car and learn how vectors are used to represent velocity and acceleration in this interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Survive at High Velocity
This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at speed, velocity, and centripetal force on the racetrack. [6:28]
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Electric Force: Coulomb's Law
This informative tutorial on Coulomb's Law and electric force in physics features a definition as well as formulas, diagrams, and learning exercises.
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...
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: Physics Equilibrium of Forces
The process of finding the magnitudes of the components of a force, called resolving the force, is explained at this site.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Speed and Velocity
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students examine the difference between speed and velocity.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration
Explore illustrated examples and try some practice acceleration problems to better understand this vector quantity in physics.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Distance and Displacement
Students are introduced to the two scalar and vector quantities of distance and displacement with several illustrated practice problem opportunities.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Magnitude of Vectors
Find the magnitude of a vector. You'll see vectors given in graphs, given in component form, and given by initial and terminal points. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Vector Addition: 6 + 8 = ?
Become a student of physics and approach the task of adding vector quantities, which also include direction. See this head-to-tail animation which helps with the visualization of this concept.