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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define linear momentum, explain the relationship between linear momentum and force, state Newton's second law of motion in terms of linear momentum, and calculate linear momentum given mass...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Force: Linear Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers linear momentum, how momentum and force are related, how momentum fits into Newton's second law of motion, and how to calculate...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Dynamics of Rotational Motion: Rotational Inertia

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to understand the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration; study the turning effect of force; study the analogy between force and torque, mass and moment of inertia, and linear...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphing Your Motion With Easy Data App and Cbr 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use a CBR 2 motion detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Is Gravity? Activity Modeling Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 4 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR by Linda Antinone, Sam Gough, and Jill Gough (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Linear Force Relation for a Rubber Band

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will use a force sensor and a motion detector to study the relationship between the force applied to a rubber band and the distance to which it stretches. They will then model force versus strech data with a...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tic, Toc: Pendulum Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to plot the position versus time graph for a swinging pendulum. They will determine the period of the motion and model the position data using a cosine function.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Linear Momentum and Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial aims to model and predict not the motion of just one object, but rather what happens when two or more objects collide. The concept of momentum will be the main focus of this module.
Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Glossary

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a glossary of the terms and definitions used in Chapter 8: Linear Momentum and Collisions from the AP Physics online text.
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the maximum height and the time to reach the maximum height for a firework that is fired vertically upward and explodes at the point where it would have started coming back down again.
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the maximum height and the time to reach the maximum height for a firework that is fired vertically upward and explodes at the point where it would have started coming back down again. Information about the planet will be given to...
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the distance traveled by an object just by looking at the velocity vs. time graph.
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the explosion height and the time to explosion for a firework that is fired vertically upward and explodes at the point where it already coming back down again. Information about the planet will be given to them so that they can...
Unit Plan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Conservation of Linear Momentum and Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore conservation of linear momentum and collisions. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, center of mass motion, variable mass, and momentum. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key concepts, equations, and skills for uniform circular motion, including centripetal acceleration and the difference between linear and angular velocity.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Applications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity includes scripts that enable students to understand all types of linear motion, such as vertical motion, horizontal motion, average velocity, and sliding ladder.
eBook
Other

Wikibooks: Physics Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A handy resource that gives an overview of equations and definitions pertinent to an introductory, college-level physics course, with two of its three sections focusing on motion-related topics and principles.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Solving a System of Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will collect and analyze motion data in order to determine the solution to a linear system of equations. They graph two motions on a common axis and find their intersection.
Article
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Quick Circular Motion Calculations Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This challenge is designed to help students move back and forth from different circular motion ideas. These ideas include frequency, rpm, period, angular speed, linear speed, total distance and total radians.
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Rolling Distance Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will be able to change the radius and the linear speed of a wheel. They can then see how each of these variables affects the angular speed. Students can also look at the relationship between angular distance and...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Making Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learn how to make waves! Using a motion sensor, students will recreate distance vs. time graphs given in the lab. Lab gives a detailed procedure as well as questions that can be saved online.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Boats in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students make observations about the motion of a boat going up and down the river. They will solve the system of equations algebraically and graphically.
Activity
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 1 Part 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the distance traveled by an object by looking at the velocity vs. time graph. All velocities are constant.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Forces and Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
See how motion is converted and the energy associated with the motion is used to do work.

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