Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Atwood Machine Problem
Students must find out the time it takes a mass on an Atwood Machine to fall a certain distance.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Forces on Elevator
Students must find out different things for an object in a elevator simply based on the force-time graph that is produced as the object rides in the elevator.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: How Strong Is It? [Pdf]
In this lesson plan students will learn how strong a Post-it notes adhesion really is! Students will experiment pulling a Post-It note to collect quantitative data to explore the adhesive properties of the note.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newtons Laws: Rocket Sledder Interactive
Experience the effect of friction, air resistance, and applied force upon a sledder. The speed, acceleration, and force values are displayed as the sled moves. Learners can vary the mass of the sledder and the size of the parachute...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: The Value of G Interactive
Students investigate how the force of gravity varies with location on Earth. They are challenged to find the pattern in their findings.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Students study several free-body diagrams to better understand balanced and unbalanced forces.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: The Meaning of Force
This interactive physics tutorial introduces the basic meaning of force, including contact and non-contact forces.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Types of Forces
This interactive tutorial gives an in-depth introduction to a variety of forces; both contact, and non-contact.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Drawing Free Body Diagrams
Students practice reading situations where forces are acting upon objects in all directions and magnitudes, and then draw free-body diagrams to represent the forces. Each problem has a self-checking key linked right on the page.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Real World Applications
In this interactive physics tutorial, students examine some real-world applications of the impulse-momentum change theorem, more specifically, some physics in action in the real world.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Calculating Work Done by Forces
Through interactive practice problems and examples, students calculate the amount of work done by forces.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, Power: Situations Involving External Forces
Through interactive exercises and illustrated examples, students analyze situations involving external forces.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion:circular Motion Mathematics
Using the values of speed, acceleration, and force, students explore and analyze the motion of objects in circles.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Which Path Requires the Most Energy?
Suppose that a car traveled up three different sloped roadways from the base of a mountain to the summit of the mountain. Which path would require the most energy? See this animation and explanation for help.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Engineering Ups and Downs
Engineering design lesson examines the principles behind working elevators. Teams of students explore how elevators work, then design, build, and evaluate their own elevator to service a toy car garage.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Formula for Force
Explains what force is and the formulas used to calculate it in different scenarios.