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CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Momentum
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will begin to calculate the momentum of a physical system.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Bike Ride
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Walk and Ride
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Hare and the Tortoise
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Platform Scale Subtraction
Weigh five little creatures on a metric scale, and subtract to find the mass to the hundredths place for each. A timer calculates your speed of computation.
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Platform Scale Addition
Weigh five little creatures on a metric scale, and add to find their total mass to the hundredths place as each one joins the group. A timer calculates your speed of computation.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries
Educator, Adam Savage, shares two astounding examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative procedures: Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice Calculating Instantaneous Velocity: Lesson 1
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on calculating the instantaneous speed and velocity of an object. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice Calculating Instantaneous Velocity."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Wave Speed: Lesson 2
This lesson will show how to calculate wavelength and determine wave speed. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Wave Speed."
Other
Online Conversion
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Get Going With Rate
Explore the concepts of rate, distance, and speed in this interactive lesson. Discover how to use formulas to solve word problems and calculate salaries. A concise lesson with excellent examples, connections to real world experiences,...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
Other
Machine Head Software: Speed Distance Time Calculators
A collection of calculators to find the average speed, time, or distance depending on the variables given.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Bats and Echolocation
Explore bats' navigation systems by experimenting with echolocation. Approximate an object's distance by analyzing reflected sound waves, measuring the delay in sound and calculating the ratio to the speed of sound.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Tasa De Variacion De Una Funcion
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you will learn and understand the concept of average and instantaneous speed and calculate the average and instantaneous variation of some functions.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Soccer Shot Simple
Students must calculate the maximum distance they can be from an soccer net and still hit a randomly generated target. The speed and angle of the kick will be generated randomly.
PBS
Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Learners apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Alternative Record Books
Take a look at the amazing limits that athletes push themselves to in search of Olympic glory. Which events see the fastest speeds, furthest distances and highest forces? This activity challenges students to undertake some research,...
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Flow Rate and Its Relation to Velocity
In this section of the textbook learn how to define and calculate flow rate. Also learn the differences and similarities between flow rate and fluid velocity. Section also relates flow rate to processes in the body like calculating flow...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Fast Do Seismic Waves Travel?
Here's a geology project that uses historical seismograph data that you can collect from the comfort of your own computer. You'll use a web interface to a network of seismometers run by the Northern California Earthquake Data Center, at...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Supersonic Dream
Examine how fuel use affects the mass of different planes during flight. This lesson plan teaches students how to determine the per person fuel cost of a transatlantic flight for seven airplanes, and display the results on a bar graph....