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Honolulu Community College: Galileo's Kinematics
In this experiment you will attempt to reproduce Galileo's results using the inclined plane. You will test three hypotheses relating to motion on an incline. You will learn to draw a "best fit" or regression line of experimental data....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Just Plane Simple
This lesson introduces middle schoolers to three of the six simple machines used by many engineers. These machines include the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. In general, engineers use the inclined plane to lift heavy loads, the...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Machines: The Wedge
Explains how a wedge works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, and some common applications of wedges.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Patients in a Wheelchair
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on an inclined plane.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Incline
This applet allows the user to make observations about the relationship between speed and position and how both of these are affected by initial velocity and the incline on which the biker is traveling.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Stabilization Wedges Game
A team-based exercise that teaches players about the scope of the greenhouse gas problem, plus technologies that already exist to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions and help steer Earth away from climate change.
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Newton's Experiments
A collection of projects that recreated Isaac Newton's experiments as he would have built them in the seventeenth century. The projects include the mechanical advantage possible using three levers, the trajectory of a projectile, air...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Ramp in an Administrative Office
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on inclined planes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Ramp N Roll Lesson Plan
Explore how different objects move down ramps in this Curious George activity. Students will make predictions about how objects will roll down different heights of ramps.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Energy Skate Park
Build tracks, ramps and jumps in a skate park to learn about energy.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Encyclopedia: Ocean Trench
Comprehensive information about deep-ocean trenches. Includes maps, a video [1:29], and a vocabulary list.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: There's a Machine in My Toy Box!
Simple machines are everywhere, even many of your toys are simple machines. Come visit this science fair project and explore the six types of simple machines. Find out how many are hiding under the hinged lid (yes, another simple...
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Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed
Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...
A&E Television
History.com: On 9/11, Some Evacuated the Pentagon but Kept Going Back Inside
'We pledge to never leave a fallen comrade behind,' says one of the survivors. American Airlines Flight 77, struck the Pentagon between Wedges 1 and 2. Anderson was in Wedge 2. Pentagon workers who had evacuated were trying to get inside...
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Uss Constitution Museum: Constructing a Warship
USS Constitution was built as a fighting machine and utilized the six simple machines of science to accomplish the many tasks required of her. Students will identify and manipulate these machines to create inventions that would have made...
NASA
Nasa: Vectors
This site from NASA provides an excellent tutorial on vectors and their use in physics to describe the motion of objects. Vector addition and resolution are illustrated.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Normal Force: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces the concept of normal forces. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Normal Force."
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