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Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive List of All the Physics Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics: Newton's Laws Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide on Newton's Laws covers key terms, the three laws, free body diagrams, friction coefficients and tension. Includes equations and an example problem with solution. It is available for download with free registration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Types of Unemployment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment and the natural rate of unemployment in this four-question exercise.
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Curated OER

Friction Is a Force That Moves in an Opposite Direction to Movement.

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a brief overview of friction. Its' affects on solids, liquids and gases is described with diagrams. An explanation of how friction is measured is included in the discussion. An online quiz can be used to check your...
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Curated OER

Friction

For Students Pre-K - 1st
friction
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Inertia: An Object in Motion Will Tend to Stay in Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is a take off of Galileo's experiment with the inclined planes to show that an object in motion would stay in a straight line motion if no outside forces acted were acting on it. In this version, students will roll a ball...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Static Electricity

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on static electricity, including how particles can be charged by friction, and electrical forces and why they repel or attract each other. Includes a link to a test.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What a Drag

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students learn about friction and drag - two different forces that convert energy of motion to heat. Both forces can act on a moving object and decrease its velocity. Students learn examples of friction and drag, and suggest ways to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
To learn how friction affects motion, students explore how different textures provide varying amounts of friction to objects moving across them. They build a tool to measure the amount of friction between a note card and various surfaces...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Don't Slip! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan students experience friction by sliding a block of wood over sandpaper. Students will experiment with frictional forces by measuring with spring scales or rubberbands.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: Coeficientes De Rozamiento [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a virtual laboratory to determine the static and dynamic coefficients of friction.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Pirates: What Are Some Forces Around Us?

For Students 4th - 6th
Covers the meanings of force, friction, and gravity, and the differences between magnetic and elastic spring force, and between weight and mass. The effect of air resistance on an object's motion is also touched upon.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ramp and Review (For High School)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity - rolling a ball down an incline and having it collide into a cup - the concepts of mechanical energy, work and power, momentum, and friction are all demonstrated. During the activity, students take measurements...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Stopping Distance Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate coefficient of friction based on the distance required to stop a car moving along a roadway.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Acceleration on Incline Problem Medium

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must calculate the acceleration of an object down an incline when there is friction present. Mass, angle and coefficient of friction will be generated randomly.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Force and Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
The activity investigates conservation of energy. Some topics explored are friction, kinetic energy, conservation of energy, and potential energy. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Bright Idea

For Students 9th - 10th
A Bright Idea shows several different power sources and asks students to write about friction, electricity, combustion or light.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Newton's Second Law: Constant Force Applied to a Skateboarder

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students will become familiar with Newton's 2nd Law of Motion. By investigating the motion of different skateboarders pulled with a variety of constant force values, they will discover that bodies acted on by a...
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Getting Your Bearings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners learn about teamwork and problem solving in this instructional activity that focuses on friction and how ball bearings are used to reduce it.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Give Me a Brake

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activity investigates the concept of how bicycle brakes use force and friction to stop or slow mechanical motion. Students work in teams to devise a simple braking system while suggesting improvements to current bicycle brake design.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Sliding Down an Incline Plane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here is a simulation demonstrating an object placed on an inclined plane. The user will vary the slope of the plane to see the relationship the slope has on the gravity of the object and the static friction.
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Other

Easyphysics: Chapter 4 Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners investigate forces and Newton's laws. Some topics examined are mass, friction, and Newton?s laws of motion. The resource includes example problems with solutions and a chapter quiz.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Hover Cup

For Students 9th - 10th
Science experiment in which you make a hovercraft, a machine that uses compressed air to do work, from a paper cup. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how air flow can minimize friction and cause...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ramp and Review

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this hands-on activity - rolling a ball down an incline and having it collide into a cup - the concepts of mechanical energy, work and power, momentum, and friction are all demonstrated. During the activity, students take measurements...

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