[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between position and velocity for a diver accelerating under the influence of gravity and air resistance. Measure velocity and position based on variables of the height of...

Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. Move the little man back and forth with the mouse and plot his motion, and then set the position, velocity, or acceleration and let the simulation move the man for you.

Students are introduced to the physics concepts of air resistance and launch angle as they apply to catapults. This includes the basic concepts of position, velocity and acceleration and their relationships to one another. They use...

Students watch video clips from the October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movies to see examples of projectile motion. Then they explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration, and calculate...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the trajectories in two dimensions through simulation and examples. Some of the concepts identified are motion and velocity.

Students watch video clips from October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to learn about projectile motion. They explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration and calculate simple projectile...

Students are introduced to the concept of projectile motion, of which they are often familiar from life experiences,such as playing sports such as basketball or baseball, even though they may not understand the physics involved. Students...

This 11-problem quiz/practice helps students to understand how velocity and acceleration can be represented using vectors.

Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.

A video and a short quiz on acceleration.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to draw a velocity-time graph and what it represents.

This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.

Students learn how to describe the motion of projectiles numerically; specifically how the numerical values of the x and y components of the velocity and displacement change with time. Includes animations and interactive simulation.

A slide show illustrating two types of acceleration as they are related to velocity and time. Learn how to solve a simple equation, and calculate average acceleration.

Students interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the average acceleration formula, calculate the velocity of a falling ball, and then check your answer by dragging the point along the line in the given graph. After the activity, answer one...

In this lab activity, young scholars investigate the effects of changing force on the acceleration of a lab cart testing Newton's Second Law of Motion. They will use distance and time to calculate velocity and create a graph representing...

For this activity, students observe the centripetal acceleration of an object in uniform circular motion. Relate the changes in velocity and radius to the centripetal acceleration.

A lab investigation of an accelerating object can be difficult without motion sensors or computer photogates. The accelerating object can gain velocity in such a way that it moves a great distance in a short time.

This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Students apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.

Students understand the physics of a free falling object through these illustrated example problems.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the lesson students study the derivatives of rational functions and higher derivatives of polynomial functions. Students examine guided notes, review guided...

Students explore how a satellite's motion is governed by the same physics principles and described by the same mathematical equations.

Students examine examples of vectors that are directed in two dimensions- upward and rightward, northward and westward, eastward and southward, etc.