Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Visualizing Forces on an Incline
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...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Forces on an Incline Lab
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Representing Forces on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inclined Planes & Net Force: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects Sliding on an Inclined Plane: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inclined Planes & Net Force: Lesson 1
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."
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
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)....
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Kinematics: Graphs and Ramps Interactive
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...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Machines: The Wedge
Explains how a wedge works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, and some common applications of wedges.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Seven Speedy Pieces
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Patients in a Wheelchair
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on an inclined plane.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Incline
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Incline Affects Speed
Students determine how incline affects speed. They will communicate their results graphically.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy on an Incline With Friction
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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Stabilization Wedges Game
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simple Machines From Pyramids to Skyscrapers
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,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simple Machines
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...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Newton's Experiments
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...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Rolling Down an Inclined Plane
Experiment with gravity as a variable to observe the effects of gravity on an object rolling down an inclined surface.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Heave Ho!
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Galileo: His Experiments
This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site samples Galileo's experiments with falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes, and pendulums.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Ramp in an Administrative Office
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on inclined planes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hills, Inclement Weather, and Cars
This passage will test your knowledge on forces on inclined planes.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Ramp
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.