This 9-problem quiz/practice helps students understand how position, velocity and acceleration are related.

By the end of this section, you will be able to calculate coefficient of friction on a car tire and to calculate ideal speed and angle of a car on a turn.

Through an animated illustration of a dot diagram and time graphs, students learn about positive velocity and positive acceleration.

In this investigation, students will work in groups to design a model roller coaster, which will be used to clock the fastest speed for the rider (ball bearing/marble) The groups will build roller coaster models and modify and adjust...

Test your knowledge of velocity and acceleration with this short quiz.

View the answers to a quiz about velocity and acceleration on this site.

Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.

This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.

Discusses the meaning of velocity in terms of a graphical representation. Calculus-based discussion. Good graphics.

This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.

Provides definitions, examples, and formulas for acceleration.

Explore forces and motion 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.

In this short lab, young scholars use Tonka trucks to observe the acceleration of a object as it initiates acceleration, maintains a steady speed, and slows to a stop.

Calculate the final speed and the distanced covered by a car that is accelerating because of a certain set of forces acting on the car.

This has been used for the physics portion of a ninth grade physical science course. This lab experience is designed to give students a conceptual sense of the relationship between one-dimensional distance, velocity and acceleration.

In this document, we will try to answer a fundamental question of physical science, "Why do things start to move, slow down, speed up, stop moving or change direction?" In answering these core questions we can develop concepts that can...

For race car engineers, F = m a, is the backbone of the vast majority of calculations. The selection of gear ratios is one example. Investigate and create a mathematical model for the relationship between force, speed, mass, distance and...

Try the new "Ladybug Motion 2D" simulation for the latest updated version of the original game. Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors.

Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors by moving the ladybug. Set the position, velocity, or acceleration, and see how the vectors change.

Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration in the "Arena of Pain." Use the green arrow to move the ball. Add more walls to the arena to make the game more difficult. Try to make a goal as fast as you can.

This program gives students a visual representation of why an object moving in a circle at constant speed is accelerating. This program will guide students through a method of calculating the circular acceleration based on the change in...

Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.

An illustrated example of a speed-time graph plotted with speed on the vertical axis against time on the horizontal axis.

This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.