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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Analysis of Simple Harmonic Oscillator in a Single Video Clip

9th - 10th
A video clip of a glider on a low-friction air track can be used to analyze many aspects of simple harmonic motion. This clip includes graphs that are synchronized to the motion that show position vs time, velocity vs time, and...
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Drawing Acceleration vs Time Graphs

9th - 10th
Explains the differences between the graphs of position vs. time, velocity vs. time, and acceleration vs. time. Demonstrates how to use the information from a velocity-time graph to create an accleration-time graph. [8:27]