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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Newton's Third Law of Motion: Astronauts in Outer Space

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, NASA learns hard lessons from the first American attempt to do work while "walking" in space. The video also explores Newton's third law of motion. [4:50]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gravitation: Introduction to Newton's Law of Gravitation

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know how much you are accelerating down toward the center of Earth? This video will explore how to use Newton's Law of Gravitation to figure it out. [8:37]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Gravitation Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A video giving another example of how to calculate the force of gravity using Newton's Law of Gravitation. [8:16]
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NASA

Nasa: Introduction to Newton's Three Laws: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
View this video that relates Newton's Law of Motion to the operation on airplanes. Learn how mass of a person can be calculated by dividing the weight of the person to the force of gravity. [12:08]
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: Gravity at Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson highlights how science can be learned from daily life experiences. It emphasizes the ways in which simple laws of physics can be understood from personal observations and experiences, and in fact it demonstrates that we...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: Physics of Donkey Carts

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson explores Newton's Third Law of Motion through examination of several real world examples of this law in action, including that of a donkey cart - a site common in the streets of Pakistan. Students will understand that...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Newton's Law of Gravitation

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan introduces us to Newton's Law of Gravitation in this video. [8:37]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gravitation: Acceleration Due to Gravity at the Space Station

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lecture will use the Universal Law of Gravitation to calculate the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Earth. Video will then calculate the space station's acceleration due to gravity. [10:12]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Introduction to Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
Basics of gravity and the Law of Universal Gravitation. [15:42]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Newton's Law of Gravitation

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of gravity and Newton's Law of Gravitation. [8:37]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Gravitation (Part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
A second video on the topic of the law of gravitation. It examines gravitational forces on a planet and in space.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
What's the different between a wind force and the force due to gravity? This video [4:02] covers both Newton's second law of motion and law of gravity.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Physics: Gravitation: Introduction to Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why objects fall to the ground with Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation as explained by this video. Video will explain history of discovery of the concept of gravity. It will also show how to solve for the force of gravity. [15:42]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Would a Brick or Feather Fall Faster?

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents an analysis of a problem where a brick and a feather are dropped on the moon to see which would hit the ground sooner. This is compared to the gravity on the Earth, where the air resistance on the objects would produce a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
This video covers the basics of gravity and the Law of Universal Gravitation. [15:42]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Deriving Displacement as Function of Time, Accel, Initial Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan discusses deriving displacement as a function of time, constant acceleration, and initial velocity in this video. [9:57]
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University of Oregon

Electronic Universe: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
From the The Electronic Universe Project web site. This page states and explains Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. Includes some downloadable movie clips and associated sound files. Discusses Ptolemy's attempt to explain...
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Other

Phoenix Film and Video: Gravity, Force, and Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
Zog is introduced to Newton's basic laws of motion. By observing objects on earth and in space, Zog learns that nothing can start moving, speed up, slow down, change direction or stop unless a force is applied to it -- even if the force...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Acceleration Due to Gravity

For Students 9th - 10th
What is the acceleration due to gravity at the space station? [10:13]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Law of Gravitation: Gravity for Astronauts in Orbit

For Students 9th - 10th
Video lecture explains why astronauts appear weightless despite being near the Earth. [7:12]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration Due to Gravity at the Space Station

For Students 9th - 10th
A video exploring the acceleration due to gravity at the space station. [10:12]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Why Gravity Gets So Strong Near Dense Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan uses two examples to explain why a smaller denser object of the same mass can exert a stronger gravitational pull. [8:13]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Starting With Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
This video [4:36] will first explore a single particle under the influence of gravity. Click the link to check out the Effects lesson.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force of Friction Keeping the Block Stationary

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan explains how a block of wood is kept stationary by the force of friction (correction made in next video). [8:40]

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