CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Friction
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students learn what causes friction, what factors affect friction, and how it is calculated.
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Friction
Use your knowledge about friction to help Carrie get to the Invigatron before someone steals it. Following the activity, read more about friction and resistance, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Force?
You have probably heard the word "force" before in conversations. Here are a few examples: "the rocket had a lot of force at blast off" or "the force of the storm blew the roof off the building." What is force? Force is defined as a push...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Forces
Students learn about various forces and how they relate to everyday life in this interactive learning module.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Red Light, Green Light
Building upon their understanding of forces and Newton's laws of motion, students learn about the force of friction, specifically with respect to cars. They explore the friction between tires and the road to learn how it affects the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 5.2 Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Drag Forces
By the end of this section, you will be able to define drag force and model it mathematically, discuss the applications of drag force, define terminal velocity, and perform calculations to find terminal velocity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Frictional Force Experiment
A lesson about friction can be found on this website. Students will experiment to see how motion and frictional force affect the game of football.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Friction Review
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for friction, including how to find the direction and magnitude of the friction force.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Friction: Lesson 4
This lesson will introduce the concept of friction and explain how it can affect forces. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Friction."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frictional Forces on Mobility Walkers
This passage will test your knowlege on normal forces.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Coefficient of Kinetic Friction
This slide show presentation introduces the idea of the coefficient of kinetic friction.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Finding Individual Forces
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students find the value of forces acting upon objects using force equations.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: What Are Forces?
This lesson will introduce forces and give an overview of some different types of forces.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Forces Quiz
First, read some fast facts about forces, then take a ten-question, multiple-choice quiz. Check to see if your answers are correct after each question.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effects of Force
Explore the effects of forces around us in the world.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practice With Static Friction
With this tutorial, learn how to calculate static friction problems in physics.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Pirates: What Are Some Forces Around Us?
Covers the meanings of force, friction, and gravity, and the differences between magnetic and elastic spring force, and between weight and mass. The effect of air resistance on an object's motion is also touched upon.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law With Friction (Force on Angle)
Students must calculate the acceleration of an object being pulled along a horizontal surface by a force on an angle. The surface has friction.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Mechanics Problems: Force Problems
This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich, real-world problems demonstrating force and Newton's second law of motion.
New York University
New York Univ.: Tandon School of Engineering: Static and Kinetic Friction [Ppt]
Explains what static and kinetic friction are and discusses the coefficient of friction for different situations. Presents two simple lab experiments and real-life examples of friction in action.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Visualizing Forces on an Incline
This program gives students a visual representation of the forces on a block that is on an inclined plane. The students can watch how force gravity, force normal, and force friction change as the angle of the plane changes. Students can...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 5 Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity: Summary
This page summarizes each section of Chapter 5: Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity from the AP Physics online text. These include friction, drag force, and elasticity: stress and strain.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Newton's Second Law: Constant Force Applied to a Skateboarder
In this lab activity, students will become familiar with Newton's 2nd Law of Motion. By investigating the motion of different skateboarders pulled with a variety of constant force values, they will discover that bodies acted on by a...