TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Puttin' It All Together
On the topic of energy related to motion, this summary lesson is intended to tie together the concepts of work, power, collisions, momentum and drag. A hands-on activity demonstrates this idea and reinforces students' math skills in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Land on the Run
Students learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds - from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Power and Efficiency
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Machines and friction, the efficiency of a machine and how to calculate it.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Energy on Incline Level 2
Students must predict the distance a box will move up an incline based on energy conservation. There will be friction present and some of the original KE will turn into heat.
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...
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Burn Rubber
This tutorial from Bill Nye explains how to perform a simple experiment with a rubber band. The experiment demonstrates how friction can dissipate energy as heat.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Inertia and Mass
This is part of a lesson on Newton's Laws of Motion that focuses on inertia and mass. It restates Newton's first law of motion. The lesson also gives a helpful visual description concerning friction.
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...
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Inclined Plane
This site is an interactive app of an inclined plane showing the effect of the angle, the weight of the block, and the friction as a block is pulled up an incline.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Visualizing Forces on an Incline
This program gives students a visual representation of the forces on a block that is on an inclined plane. The students can watch how force gravity, force normal, and force friction change as the angle of the plane changes. Students can...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 2
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 3
Students must calculate the speed of a block when it returns to its original location on an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field, coefficient of friction and initial speed will be generated randomly.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Roller Coaster Model
An interactive playground for students to explore the physics of roller coasters. Learners investigate by changing the variables of force, velocity, friction, and vectors. Energy bar charts are displayed as the coaster car moves along...
Other
Funderstanding: Roller Coaster Game
Design your own thrilling coaster and learn about energy and friction.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Air and Fluid Resistance
This article on Khan Academy is about air and fluid resistance that is caused by friction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rocket Sled
Explore the relationship between thrust, drag, friction, weight, and acceleration in this interactive simulation and see if you can make the sled stop on a particular rock
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters: Simple Machines: The Wheel and Axle
An in-depth explanation of the wheel and axle from Scholastic. Also provides several examples and a picture for understanding.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Forces: Balloon Car Activity
In this activity, teams of students build a car out of common materials which is then propelled by the release of air out of a balloon and must travel a minimum distance. The activity is then extended to a competition to build the car...
Other
Science Hobbyist: Sticky Electrostatics
A series of activities focusing on charge interactions, charging methods, and the conservation of charge. Activities utilize scotch tape and other readily available items. Includes explanations of what is happening.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Mechanics Problems: Force Problems
This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich, real-world problems demonstrating force and Newton's second law of motion.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Newton's Second Law of Motion
Learn more about finding acceleration through the practices found in this lesson. "The process of determining the acceleration of an object demands that the mass and the net force are known." Check out this comprehensive site.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Unicycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] Understand the phenomenon of rolling without slipping, even under an applied torque, in the context of a unicycle using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also...
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Thermodynamics and Heat: Heat
Explains how heat is created from a chemical reaction, from friction, or from energy inefficiency, as well as the meaning of specific heat capacity.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Newton's Laws
Do you need to review any of Newton's three laws? This website contains a video collection on Newton's Law from a physics course at East Los Angeles College. In twelve lectures, each law is explained with examples. Also discussed is...
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