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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Simple Machines

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a machine is, the three ways that machines make work easier and simple and compound machines.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Velocity

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Difference between velocity and speed, using vector arrows to represent velocity, objects that have different velocities and how to calculate average velocity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Direction

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores direction and why it is important, direction as a component of motion, and how to represent direction and distance with vectors.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Generators and Motors

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Expalins how an electric generator works.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Refraction

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Refraction of light in matter and how light changes its speed and angle of refraction according to the type of medium it is travelling through.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Ultrasound

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What ultrasound and echolocation are, and how sonar and ultrasonography are used.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wavelength

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wavelength is and how it relates to the energy of a wave.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electric Transformers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how an electric transformer works and step-up and step-down transformers.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Hearing Loss

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores what deafness is, how loud sounds cause hearing loss, and how to prevent hearing loss using hearing protectors.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Surface Wave

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition and example of a surface wave, how the medium moves in a surface wave and why ocean waves break.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Electromagnet

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores what an electromagnet is, its strength, and how it can easily be turned on and off.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Frequency

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of wave frequency and how it is related to the energy of a wave.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the seven different forms of energy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to forms of energy including the seven different forms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Heating Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the function of a heating system and how it works.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Transverse Wave

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a transverse wave is, its crests and troughs and what an S wave is.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Artificial Light

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What artificial light is and five different types, and how each type produces visible light.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Calculating Work

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to calculate work from force and distance and vice versa, and the SI unit for work.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Oceanic Pressure

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Oceanic pressure and how it changes with depth, and how to adjust to this change.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Earth as a Magnet

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how Earth is a magnet, its geographic and magnetic poles, and its magnetic field.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Energy Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decribes how energy changes from one form to another and energy changes between kinetic and potential energy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Longitudinal Wave

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a longitudinal wave is, its compressions and rarefactions and what a P wave is.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Projectile Motion

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Projectile motion and combining forces, examples of projectile motion.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Thermal Radiation

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thermal energy is transferred by thermal radiation and sources of thermal radiation.