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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Force and Newton's Laws: Conceptual Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers 27 questions to test students' knowledge of the major concepts in each section of Chapter 4: Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion from the AP Physics online text.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Laws and Equilibrium Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Questions pertaining to Newton's laws and equilibrium.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: All of Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you describe and explain all Newton's Laws of Motion? This exercise has students testing their knowledge of the Laws of Motion with this quiz.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Physics: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this game to review for a physical science test on Newton's laws.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Newton's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's Law for falling objects including terminal velocity, the three stages of falling, a diagram showing what happens to the speed of a skydiver from airplane to ground, velocity-time graphs for falling...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 4.3 Newton's Second Law of Motion: Concept of a System

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define net force, external force, and system; understand Newton's second law of motion; and apply Newton's second law to determine the weight of an object.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Forces, Acceleration and Newton's Laws Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's First Law: an object remains in the same state of motion unless a resultant force acts on it. If the resultant force on an object is zero, this means: a stationary object stays stationary; a moving object...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Newton's Law of Cooling

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Newton's Law of Cooling. Examples and explanations are provided. Great review for the AP Calculus test!
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Build a Newtonian Physics Machine

For Students 6th - 8th
Great hands on way to explain Newton's Second Law of Motion. Choose from three different Newtonian physics machines to build and test Newton's Second Law.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Newton's Third Law?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers a description and real-life examples of Newton's Third Law. Practice questions are included to test your knowledge!
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: The Hobby Shop: The Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
Design your own virtual rocket, and then test launch it. Watch tutorials about Newton's laws of motion and rocket basics to help you improve your rocket's performance.
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Physics4kids

Physics4 kids.com: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a brief overview of Newton's three laws of motion. Examples with diagrams are used to explain each law. An online quiz is available to test your understanding of these topics.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's 2nd Law: Inquiry Approach

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students test Isaac Newton's ideas on the nature of motion, in particular his 2nd Law. The emphasis is on the process of science, investigation, and experimentation, not the results. Students must come up with their own...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Spring Thing: Newton's Second Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a force sensor and a motion detector to collect force and acceleration data for an object moving up and down hanging from a spring. They use the data to test Newton's second law, and to estimate the mass...
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University of California

Understanding Science: Newton's 2nd Law: Inquiry Approach Lesson

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For this lesson, students develop their own scientific experiment to test Newton's hypothesis that the acceleration of an object depends on the net force acting upon it and its mass. After completing their designed experiment, students...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Forces on a Kidney Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage will test your knowledge on Newton's laws and equilibrium inside the human body.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Knee Injuries in Athletes

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage will test your knowledge on Newton's laws and equilibrium in regards to knee injuries.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second Law: How Does Acceleration Change With Varying Forces?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students investigate the effects of changing force on the acceleration of a lab cart testing Newton's Second Law of Motion. They will use distance and time to calculate velocity and create a graph representing their...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Newton's Second Law

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Newton's Second Law including the formula Force = mass to the x power acceleration, an example of how to calculate the force needed to accelerate based on mass, and a link to a test.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Newton's Mountain Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A science simulation launches a projectile from the top of a mountain testing Newton's theory introduced in Principia.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Gravity in the Solar System

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Test your knowledge of Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation with an animation and a short quiz.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Weight?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on weight will help you prepare for the AP Physics test. Included are example problems to help you practice.
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Other

Nondestructive Testing Resource Center: Radiographic Inspection

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial helps students learn about Radiographic Inspection through the concept of Newton's Inverse Square Law.