NOAA
Noaa: Gulf Oil Spill Educational Resources
NOAA provides educational resources regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill such as imagery, animations, videos, lessons, activities, real world data, trajectory maps, and background information. Lessons such as Cleaning Oiled Feathers...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Projectile Motion: Predicting Point of Impact
Students discuss forces acting on objects in a trajectory motion. They review notes, study equations, solve projectile motion problems, and determine experimentally the impact point of a ball in projectile motion.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Ballistics and Orbits Model
Experience a simulation of ballistic trajectories in relationship to Earth's orbit. Java 1.5 or more recent is required.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Not So Lost in Space
Students learn how engineers navigate satellites in orbit around the Earth and on their way to other planets in the solar system. In accompanying activities, they explore how ground-based tracking and onboard measurements are performed....
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Double Inverted Pendulum Oscillating
Adjust frequency, amplitude, and perturbation in this simulation to graph the trajectory of a mass at the end of each pendulum.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Fresh Air and Parabolas
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson examines a plane crash, and gets students to try to find the location of various pieces of wreckage. This is done using parametric equations which form a parabolic trajectory....
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Projectile Simulator
Students explore a variety of variables associated with the trajectory of a projectile including the launch height, angle, and speed. This interactive can be used as a purely exploratory activity or be used with an activity sheet that...
Maryland Science Center
Maryland Science Center: Field Goal! [Pdf]
Create a catapult using the provided link, then experiment with it to see how your accuracy at making a field goal is affected by distance from the goal posts. Learn about the physics of the football's trajectory path.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Angled Launch Projectile Vectors
Can you predict how the components of projectile's velocity and acceleration change during their trajectory? This practice includes questions for students to test their problem solving skills with angled launch projectile vectors.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Charge Trajectories
Investigate a the forces exerted on a charged particle by electric and magnetic fields. Initially, find out how the charge behaves in an electric field. Then, see how the charge behaves in a magnetic field. Finally, initiate both fields...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: E X B Trajectory Model
Simulate the motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields, and then complete the equations of motion using the Lorentz force law.
Other
Interplanetary Trajectory
An anti-cassini site protesting its launch with over 72 pounds of deadly plutonium. Site was created prior to the Cassini launch in 1977, with minor editing after the launch.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Despega Sin Despegar
In Spanish. In these activities you can develop the concept of trajectory. Try to trace the figures without lifting your pencil.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Fluid Pressure and Flow
Explore pressure in the atmosphere and underwater. Reshape a pipe to see how it changes fluid flow speed. Experiment with a leaky water tower to see how the height and water level determine the water trajectory. Java required.
Other
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: War and Upheaval
Follow the trajectory of the Revolutionary War through this synopsis that is broken down into five themes. Read about the Declaration of Independence, the turning points of the war, other countries that supported the war, and how...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Plot Your Course Navigation
In this unit, students learn the very basics of navigation, including the different kinds of navigation and their purpose. The concepts of relative and absolute location, latitude, longitude and cardinal directions are discussed, as well...
NOAA
Noaa: Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery
Compilation of reports on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill includes information on the remaining impact of the spill, the ecosystem in transition, lessons learned and an oil spill trajectory model.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Remarkable Three Body Motions
What happens in space when a third celestial body joins two others? Discover both simple and complex situations which occur supporting Newtonian law in space with this collection of applets.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Field: What Is Wrong?
What's wrong with this model? Students expect simulations to show factual science concepts, but these particular simulations are intentionally built incorrectly. The objective is to find where the physics concerning electric fields is...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Vectors Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions
Three complete tutorials on vectors and two dimension forces and motion. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks along the way.
Other
Taro: An Application of the Derivative
This is a somewhat lengthy site discussing applications of the derivative using a trajectory problem as a template for understanding the concept. The page begins by defining a quadratic equation given three distinct points and then...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Functions and Their Extrema
Model the trajectory of the longest home run ever hit while studying extrema of functions on the TI-89. Another real-world problem in this activity involves minimizing the amount of tin used in a cylindrical tank. Following the worked...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Gr Kerr Wavefront Program
A simulation that uses the Kerr metric to show the distribution of light photon trajectories when near a black hole that rotates. Accompanied by explanatory documentation.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Gorgeous
From whirlpools and ravines to superlative beauty, what is the trajectory of the word gorgeous? Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel reveal the surprising variations in meaning. [2:00]
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