[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this animation as an archer shoots at a target on an angle, and its horizontal and vertical paths and its velocity are explained. An interactive follows where you can manipulate the archer's...

This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.

Using only two of our fundamental units, time and displacement students will build a framework to predict the motion of objects, starting with one dimensional motion.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will learn to describe and calculate how the magnitude of the gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses and...

Students learn about slope, determining slope, distance vs. time graphs through a motion-filled activity. Working in teams with calculators and CBL motion detectors, students attempt to match the provided graphs and equations with the...

Under the "The Science Behind Harry Potter" theme, a succession of diverse complex scientific topics are presented to students through direct immersive interaction. Student interest is piqued by the incorporation of popular culture into...

This illustrated tutorial discusses the horizontal and vertical components of a projectile's motion; specific attention will be given to the presence/absence of forces, accelerations, and velocity.

Read this passage and study the graphic to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration to reduce concussions in professional athletes.

Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz that will test your knowledge on acceleration.

Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.

Remember, anti derivative of acceleration with respect to time is velocity and anti derivative of velocity with respect to time is distance where acceleration, velocity, distance are all functions of t, the time. This concept is very...

For this physics activity, students will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for student...

The mathematics associated with the motion of satellites is described. Equations (for period, velocity, acceleration and force) are stated, symbols described, and sample problems solved. Includes five practice problems with solutions and...

Students investigate the position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. The graphs are available in PDF format.

In this part of a physics lesson, examine how the actual slope value of any straight line on a velocity-time graph is the acceleration of the object.

In this demonstration students are given a position, velocity, or acceleration graph showing the motion of an object. They describe the motion, and then make predictions by completing the remaining two graphs. Using a motion detector and...

This lab activity involves rolling a marble down a ramp where the students can investigate constant acceleration motion. The students then make a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph in order to investigate the change in...

Check out this simulation of kinematics. Test a race car with a constant acceleration versus a race car with constant velocity.

This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."

This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.

This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...

Students will determine maximum height obtained by an object tossed upward off the roof of a high school. They will also find the total time aloft and the speed with which the object will impact the ground. The acceleration due to...

Wikipedia's site on centripetal force provides a section explaining the difference between centripetal force and centrifugal force. Includes formulas and hyperlinked terms.

Kinetic energy is defined and explained--learning exercises are included to assess your understanding.