Impulse Teacher Resources

This lesson gives a mathematical relationship for impulse.

This lab is designed to have students find the relationships between impulse and change in momentum. Use the fire extinguisher to give different impulses to Wally and then use the time he is passing through the photogates to find the...

This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of impulse and momentum.

Assess your understanding of the properties of momentum and impulse with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is provided.

This lesson explains why impulse changes the momentum of an object. [4:00]

Overview of key terms and equations related to impulse, including how impulse can be calculated from a force vs. time graph.

Overview of key terms and equations for linear momentum, including a derivation of Newton's second law from the conservation of linear momentum.

A video showing how the equation for the conservation of momentum is derived using an example of balls colliding. Understand how to calculate momentum and impulse with this video. [9:28]

This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the impulse of an interaction between two objects.

This lesson explains how to increase or decrease the momentum of a system over a short or long period of time and why either option may be desirable.

This page features a summary of each section of Chapter 8: Linear Momentum and Collisions from the AP Physics online text.

A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews the conservation of momentum including impulse, elastic and inelastic collisions, linear momentum, and center of mass. Site contains links to...

This site provides a set of four Physics problems dealing with the conservation of momentum principle.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about and explore the relationship between force, time, impulse, and momentum in collisions.

In the following video Paul Andersen explains hot the force-time graph can be used to determine the impulse of an object. Since the impulse and the change in momentum are equivalent the graph can also be used to determine the change in...

In this activity, students investigate why an egg does not break when thrown at a hanging sheet, but does when thrown at a wall. They will learn about momentum, and its applications.

Students improve their understanding of momentum conservation and learn that a recoiling object in an elastic collision will transfer more impulse than if it collided inelastically.

COLLISIONS! A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. Mass, momentum, and many other things dictate how collisions can be unique. In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini sits down to...

This site by the Illinois Institute of Technology gives a Lab activity in which young scholars use a variety of toys to discover Newton's second law and momentum conservation. Newton's cradle, skate boards, and a toy motorcycle are...

A physics definition of collisions with examples to illustrate the concept and related links to problems and solutions.

A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to engineering mechanics. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and cover...

Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.

This lab activity from the Illinois Institute of Technology lets students investigate the impact of collisions upon the velocity and momentum of the colliding objects. Requires understanding of vectors.

This lesson provides the learner with example problems on understanding the relationship between bouncing objects and impulse.