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Economics of Health Care: Price Elasticity of Demand
This site provides a thorough analysis of the concept of elasticity, and uses an example in the health care industry.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u: Income Elasticity of Demand
This site provides a detailed study of income elasticity, which is how one's demand changes as income changes. It also gives good examples of normal and inferior goods.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Silly Semi Solids
Groups of students make a polymer out of household items. They then experiment with the polymer to determine its various properties.
Other
Engineers Edge: Strenght of Materials
This site has information about the strength of materials. Covers various types of stress and yeilding. Formulas included.
Other
Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Bounce
Students measure effects of elasticity by dropping rubber balls, graphing the height of the bounces, and making conclusions about the causes and effects of the bounces.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Lord Rayleigh Biographical
At this site from the Nobel e-Museum, you can read about the scientific work of Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919 CE). This article includes information on his education and experiments with light and sound waves.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Loch Ness: What Properties Do Materials Have?
This lesson looks at how the physical properties of materials determine how they can be used, and students decide which materials are strong, hard, soft, or transparent.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Distance Traveled (Fired by a Spring)
Students must predict the distance traveled by a box that has been projected horizontally by a compressed spring. The box will start with potential energy due to elasticity and it will turn into KE without loss. It will then lose its...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Elastic Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the relationship between the force applied to a spring and the length of the spring. Students can work with 7 different springs.
University of Virginia
University of Virgina: Structural Behavior and Design Approaches
From the Introduction to Structural Design web site. A page of well-written lecture notes on the various structural qualities of building materials. A comparison is made of the strength, stiffness, stability and ductility of materials,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, & Elasticity: Conceptual Questions
This page offers a list of 16 questions covering the major concepts in Chapter 5: Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity from the AP Physic online text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: 5 Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity: Summary
This page summarizes each section of Chapter 5: Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity from the AP Physics online text. These include friction, drag force, and elasticity: stress and strain.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Glossary for Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity
This is a glossary of terms and definitions used in Chapter 5: Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity from the AP Physics online text.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Elastic Force
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of elasticity and elastic force, and examples of the use of elastic force.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Glossary of Political Economy Terms: Monetary Policy Defined
This site provides a very thorough definition of the economic concept of monetary policy. The explanation is by Dr. Paul Johnson of Auburn University
Agnes Scott College
Agnes Scott College: Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Sophie Germain
Article highlights the accomplishments of Sophie Germain, a French mathematician who contributed to the study of acoustics, elasticity, mathematical physics, and the theory of numbers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Hooke's Law?
Learn about elasticity and how to determine the force exerted by a spring.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Elasticity in the Long Run and Short Run
The elasticity of supply or demand can vary based on the length of time you care about. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Elasticity and Tax Revenue
Read about how elasticity affects tax revenue. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Strain
Strain is defined and an equation is stated. Examples of material strain are given and the response of materials to strain is discussed. Includes links to related topics.
Other
University of Winnipeg Physics Dept: Deformation of Solids
This page from the University of Winnipeg Physics Department and the three pages which are linked to it describe the relationship between the strain and the stress experienced by a material. The elastic modulus is defined and an equation...
Curated OER
Market Price: Supply & Demand
This site from Wood Green School Witney explains market price. It includes graphs related to supply and demand. The explanation deals with basic economic terms establishing equilibrium market price. The site is theoretical in nature and...
Other
Hognosesam: Materials Metal, Wood and Plastic
This site describes building materials, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to choose the correct material for a project.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: A Suspended Rope
Adjust the elasticity and mass of a rope suspended between two points to see how it will be affected by gravity.