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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Visualizing Forces on an Incline

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Forces on an Incline Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to have students look at the factors that might affect the angle at which an object will start to move when it is placed on an inclined plane. The friction coefficient of the surfaces, the strength of the...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to draw free-body diagrams for objects at rest or sliding on an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Inclined Planes & Net Force: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the net force acting on objects, at rest or, sliding across inclined planes. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Inclined Planes & Net Force."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains what forces are action on objects which are sliding across an inclined plane. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane."
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Inclined Planes & Net Force: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the net force acting on objects, at rest or, sliding across inclined planes. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Inclined Planes & Net Force."
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how simple machines, including wedges, were used in building both ancient pyramids and present-day skyscrapers. In a hands-on activity, students test a variety of wedges on different materials (wax, soap, clay, foam)....
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Kinematics: Graphs and Ramps Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Students construct a ramp along which a ball rolls in order to match the given graph. As the ball rolls along the ramp, the motion is plotted in real time, allowing the learner to make adjustments to the ramp in order to successfully...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Simple Machines: The Wedge

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how a wedge works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, and some common applications of wedges.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Seven Speedy Pieces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will determine the coasting distance of a toy car if it is rolled down from different fixed distances down an inclined plane.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Patients in a Wheelchair

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on an inclined plane.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Incline

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Incline Affects Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine how incline affects speed. They will communicate their results graphically.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy on an Incline With Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the final speed of the block on the incline after sliding down a certain distance. Students must account for the energy lost due to the friction between the block and the incline.
Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: Stabilization Wedges Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines From Pyramids to Skyscrapers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Simple machines are devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier, and which people have used to provide mechanical advantage for thousands of years. Students learn about the wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane,...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through a five-lesson series with five hands-on activities, students are introduced to six simple machines - inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle - as well as compound machines, which are combinations of two or...
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Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Newton's Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Rolling Down an Inclined Plane

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with gravity as a variable to observe the effects of gravity on an object rolling down an inclined surface.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heave Ho!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will discover the scientific basis for the use of inclined planes. They will explore, using a spring scale, a bag of rocks and an inclined plane, how dragging objects up a slope is easier than lifting them straight up into the...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: His Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site samples Galileo's experiments with falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes, and pendulums.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Ramp in an Administrative Office

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on inclined planes.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hills, Inclement Weather, and Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on inclined planes.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Ramp

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore forces, energy, and work as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces acting on the file cabinet. Graphs show forces, energy and work.

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