Explore and review harmonic motion with this illustrated guide.

In this activity, students' use a force sensor and a motion detector to collect force and acceleration data for an object moving up and down hanging from a spring. They use the data to test Newton's second law, and to estimate the mass...

Students must calculate the spring constant of a spring based on the oscillation graph that is created by an oscillating mass.

Students must find the spring constant of a spring based on the distance a projectile travels when fired by the spring.

Simple harmonic motion is described and explained and related to a Helmholtz resonator. Relation between simple harmonic motion and a vibrating air column is clearly made in an effort to explain why a pop bottle resonates when blowing...

In this introduction to motion activity, learners will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...

This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...

Students explore mass on a spring. Some topics examined in the activities are Hook's law, sinusoidal motion, and oscillatory motion. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions. Practice...

Swing virtual pendulums and compare the motion of one oscillating weight on a horizontal spring to a second weight on another spring. Then, compare how these motions differ from the motion of a simple pendulum.

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to record the motion data for a plate bouncing at the end of a light spring, and analyze the data to determine frequency, period and amplitude. They will then find an appropriate...

This activity uses the CBL, TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus, force probe, and motion detector to investigate the acceleration of a mass on a spring. It also investigates Hooke's Law.

The student will investigate Hooke's law and the position, velocity and acceleration of an object oscillating vertically on a spring.

A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews oscillatory motion including simple harmonic motion, Hooke's law, harmonic motion, pendulum, and springs. Site contains links to video...

This Illinois Institute of Technology site provides a teacher lesson plan for an activity in which students use spring balances and carts to investigate the action-reaction relationship for any given force. Includes directions, materials...

In this activity, students learn about the differential equations used to model the simple harmonic motion of a block attached to a spring. They study the effect of air resistance on the motion and create an animation to describe its...

An interactive simulation that teaches about gravitational force, circular motion, and astronomy by manipulating the sun, earth, moon, and a space station to observe the effects of gravity and orbital paths. This simulation can either be...

Experiment to see how air resistance affects the periodic motion of a mass on a spring.

Observe how friction affects a mass connected to two springs that are on opposite sides of the mass. Create a graph while the friction is on or off.

Students apply Newton's laws to more diverse physical settings where multiple forces from varying origins interact. To aid in condensing the physical setting into mathematical expressions, the free body diagram is used in this module...

Observe the motion of this animated system to represent an analogy for molecular mechanics of atoms and molecules.

The motion of three simple harmonic oscillators is animated to illustrate the effects of mass and spring constant upon the motion. Several equations and a lengthy discussion accompany the animations.

A series of thought-intensive, multichoice questions from the University of Maryland concerning masses on springs. A downloadable software program on the topic is also included.

A model of a slinky consisting of a string of twenty masses connected by springs. When the slinky is released, it falls and retracts in a series of movements. The motion of the slinky can be explored by moving the masses to different...

This lab will allow students to investigate how the motion of a real object on a spring differs from the idealized version by introducing damping to the situation.