Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Colliding Spheres

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab activity from the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students investigate the impact of collisions upon the velocity and momentum of the colliding objects. Requires understanding of vectors.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Momentum Conserved

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology gives a Lab activity in which students use a variety of toys to discover Newton's second law and momentum conservation. Newton's cradle, skate boards, and a toy motorcycle are incoporated...
Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Applications of Indefinite Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
Displacement, velocity, and acceleration are determined in real world problems using the indefintie integral. Several examples alllow you to see the process at work.
Activity
Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
Unit Plan
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Curvilinear Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Using parametric equations, velocity and acceleration values are determined for objects in curvilinear motion.
Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Projectile Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
A short interactive activity to show the movement of a projectile. You can change the values of the initial height, velocity, angle of inclination, the mass and the gravitational acceleration.
Study Guide
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Instantaneous Rates of Change

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Prepare for the AP Calculus exam by reviewing the most common relationships that are used in calculus. Formulas and examples are provided.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Fitting Models to Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A basic premise of science is that much of the physical world can be described mathematically and many physical phenomena are predictable. This scientific outlook took place in Europe during the late...
Online Course
Learn AP Physics

Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews kinematics including one and two dimensional motion and vectors. Site contains links to video lectures and practice problems.
Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 Dimensional Kinematics

For Students 6th - 8th
An activity in which average speed is calculated for a ball sliding along an inclined plane. This speed is compared to various instantaneous speeds along the incline.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Simple Harmonic Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will discover the period of time of one oscillation, the frequency of oscillation, the object displacement, its velocity, and its acceleration. They will also discover how to apply the principles of conservation of...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Making Motion Graphs With Toys

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Intended for the beginning lessons in derivative and function graphs, this activity uses motion detectors and battery operated toy cars to generate constant velocity graphs on a TI-83/84. Then students take a free-wheeling car and roll...
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Kinematic Equations/problem Solving

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, investigate the process of using the equations to determine unknown information about an object's motion.
Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start: How Do Computers Simulate the Motion of Virtual Particles?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson we'll explore how we use fairly simple physics to draw particles which move according to the forces we feel in the real world (such as wind & gravity).
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Position & Unknown Time: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on calculating the position of an object when time is unknown, but velocity and acceleration are. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice w/ Position & Unknown Time."

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