Curated OER
Collecting And Fitting Quadratic Data
Students investigate the concept of using quadratic data to plot coordinates on a plane. They also apply the quadratic formula for a variety of problems with the help of a graphing calculator to draw the parabola for given coordinates.
Curated OER
May The Fastest Toy Win
Students determine which wind-up toy is the fastest. However, they can NOT race the toys. They must find another way. On the first day of the activity, students work in pairs or small groups to develop and write a plan.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics: Circular Motion Study Guide
This study guide on circular motion covers key terms, centripetal force, linear vs. circular motion, precession, and equations. Includes four example problems with detailed solutions. The guide is available for download with free...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Linear Motion
A learning module where students gain an understanding of the relationships between the different kinds of motion. Students will be able to explain free-fall motion and use kinematics equations to calculate problems involving falling...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Rolling Distance Lab
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...
Other
Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Motion of a Ball Rolling Down a Plank
This is a version of an experiment devised and carried out by Galileo. He used it to discover and demonstrate that motion was subject to quite simple, and beautiful, mathematical description.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing of Motion Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to creatively play with the motion of a car and to see how the motion of the car is illustrated in graphs of position vs. time and velocity vs. time.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Lab
This lab was designed to generate some data that students can use when learning about simple graphing motion. Students will track the motion of a row boat as it moves through a course and then they will create a graph of the data that...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Lab 2
This lab was designed to generate some data that students can use when learning about two stage graphing motion. Students will track the motion of a dragster as it accelerates and then moves at a constant speed and then they will create...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Motion on a Ramp
Using a motion detector, students produce graphs that show the motion of a toy car as it moves on a ramp. Students collect distance versus time graphs and velocity versus time graphs as well as predict what the motion will look like on...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force: Introduction to Rocket Propulsion
By the end of this section, you will be able to state Newton's third law of motion, explain the principle involved in propulsion of rockets and jet engines, derive an expression for the acceleration of the rocket , discuss the factors...
Other
Wikibooks: Physics Study Guide
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.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Physics: Angular Acceleration
From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses uniform and non-uniform circular motion, how to calculate angular acceleration, and the relationship between linear and...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Force: Linear Momentum
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Force
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Dynamics of Rotational Motion: Rotational Inertia
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...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Physics: Angular Momentum and Its Conservation
From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses the similarities between angular and linear momentum, how torque and angular momentum are related, and the application...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
This site from The Nobel Foundation tells the scientific work which earned Louis de Broglie the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here, you can read the Presentation Speech in which Professor C.W. Oseen praises Louis de Broglie's work and de...
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Structure and Properties of Materials/thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including thermal expansion). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics. Humor,...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Balance and Rotation: Rotational Velocity Interactive
Explore the relationship between the angular and linear velocity for two bugs on a rotating disk.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Curling Stone Momentum Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the nature of a nonlinear collision using curling stones. Students will be able to look at how the velocities before the collision and the mass of the stones affects the results of the...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 1
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.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 2
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...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 2
Find the distance traveled by an object just by looking at the velocity vs. time graph.