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Flipping Physics
Resonance Introduction using 9 Demonstrations
Resonance is introduced and demonstrated using a “singing rod”, a swing, a goblet, a hollow tube in water, a hollow tube open on both ends, a seashell, a broken speaker, a human body and a key fob, and a shorter “singing rod”....
Curated Video
Physics
This live-action video program is about the word Physics. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Physics through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Professor Dave Explains
Conservation of Energy: Free Fall, Springs, and Pendulums
The energy of a closed system is always conserved. This is an important law of physics! But energy does change forms. What are all the forms and how do they interchange? You gotta watch this clip to find out, buddy!
Curated OER
Pendulums
Pendulums are simple, yet engaging demonstrations of harmonic motion. Dr. Carlson uses a very large example of a pendulum: a bowling ball on a string hanging from the ceiling! Learn from Dr. Carlson how you can teach about the strength...
Steve Spangler Science
Pendulum Catch - Sick Science! #013
What a fun demonstration! Show the video, or better yet, have your physics learners construct this hex nut pendulum and test it themselves. Then have them discuss in groups why the single hex nut wraps around the finger. See if they can...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity
A University of Jordan physics professor leads an activity in which students measure gravity by observing a swinging pendulum and gathering related data. Video presentation is accompanied by a teacher's guide, other printable material,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity
This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Experimenting With a Pendulum
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment with a pendulum and discover what they need to do to make the pendulum complete one back-and-forth swing in five seconds. [3:57]
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Circus Physics: Pendulum Motion
Swinging back and forth, the solo trapeze is a giant pendulum, just like the one in a grandfather clock. The time it takes to swing forward, then back to where it started is called the period. Surprisingly, this time has very little to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do With It?
What do the laws of physics have to do with engineering? Find out in this video segment featuring inventor Dean Kamen and his inventions, the IBOT and the Segway. [8:12]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Simple Harmonic Motion
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how simple harmonic motion occurs when a restoring force returns an object toward equilibrium. The two types of harmonic motion studied in AP Physics are the mass spring oscillator and the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pendulums
David explains how a pendulum can be treated as a simple harmonic oscillator, and then explains what affects, as well as what does not affect, the period of a pendulum. [14:45]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identifying Force Vectors for Pendulum: Worked Example
A worked example finding all force vectors acting on a pendulum moving in a horizontal circle. [2:58]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Physics Videos: Clocks & Time
See how gears and time make a clock work. [8:50]