Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary

For Students 10th - 12th
This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Falling Down Adventure 5

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the CBR 2 to study how a change in mass affects the average speed of a falling object. They graph distance as a function of time, and interpret and analyze graphs representing motion.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Walk the Line: Straight Line Distance Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a motion detector to create straight-line, or constant-speed, distance versus time plots, and analyze the linear equation that describes the plots.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Diffusion of Molecules in Liquid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scientific inquiry activity where students investigate how molecules move in liquid. They will observe that molecules in liquid move in a random manner and that heat will increase and cold will decrease the speed of molecular movement in...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Centripetal Force Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this physics activity, students will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for student...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive roller coaster ride produced for Teacher's Domain illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Hey Gear Heads! The Physics of Bicycle Gear Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's an abstract of a project from Science Buddies that asks you to experiment with bicycle gears and the circumference of the wheel to determine revolutions per minute.
Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Kinetic energy is defined and explained--learning exercises are included to assess your understanding.
Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Meaning of Slope for a v T Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
In this part of a physics lesson, examine how the actual slope value of any straight line on a velocity-time graph is the acceleration of the object.
Website
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Special Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical approach to special relativity, giving all the events and names in the history of discovery of special relativity. Many links to these individuals.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Position, Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
This 9-problem quiz/practice helps students understand how position, velocity and acceleration are related.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.
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Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Wind

For Students 6th - 8th
Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface is made of various land and water formations, it absorbs the sun's radiation unevenly. Two factors are necessary to...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Reversing Velocity of Charged Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
Adjust the particle speed in this simulation and observe how the particle's motion is affected.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration vs. Constant Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Observe the animation of the three cars. Use the animation to answer three questions about their acceleration and velocity.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Jumping Joe Simple

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the landing location of a person jumping over a gap on their motorcycle.
Interactive
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Friction and Fly Balls

For Students 9th - 10th
Try to find the sweet spot for hitting a baseball so that it travels the greatest horizontal distance.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Design a Roller Coaster

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive lesson where students design and build their own virtual roller coaster. Choose the height of the hills. the shape of the hills. and loop to find out if you successfully used physics concepts to pass the safety and fun...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Centripetal Acceleration?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.
Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #9 Learning Activity: Nickel Karate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates the basic theories of inertia. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #12 Learning Activity: Bernoulli Cans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates Bernoulli's principle. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #33 Learning Activity: Density Balloon

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A simple activity that investigates the effect of heat on the volume of a gas. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
Handout
Other

Hvpm: The Evolution of Flight

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the wings and compound eyes of insects and its components; also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of having compound eyes.

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