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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Galileo Galilei Time Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A time line of the life of Galileo Galilei.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Vectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses students' knowledge and understanding of vectors.
eBook
Other

Wikibooks: Physics Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A handy resource that gives an overview of equations and definitions pertinent to an introductory, college-level physics course, with two of its three sections focusing on motion-related topics and principles.
Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The first of a whole series of lectures given by Professor Shankar of Yale. This first lecture is an overview of Newtonian mechanics. The lecture comes in video or audio format. A transcript is also available.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Classroom Activities: Parachuting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explores a parachutist and her position, velocity and acceleration. Graphing and calculating these functions will be required.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D: Passing Lane Position vs. Time Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
This animation depicts two cars, one passing the other, and the animated position-time graph that represents them is shown.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Galileo Galilei

For Students 9th - 10th
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope...
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Mechanics of Solids

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the mechanics of solids. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and...
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Other

Curiosity in the Classroom: Calculating Degrees of Freedom of Robotic Arm [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan to explore the movement of robots. Students will investigate the number of directions a robots arm can move using a simple construction set. An advance lesson to calculate the degrees of freedom using the Grubler's formula...
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Physics World

Physics World: Contextual Physics in Ocean Park

For Students 9th - 10th
After downloading the "Motion Video Analysis" software, users can collect data about moving object's position from digital movie clips. This collection of data will allow them to plot motion graphs and draw conclusions about physics in...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:you Can Make It on Your Own: Robo Wars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Enter a robot design competition. Assemble a motor-powered vehicle that can climb up the steepest ramp angle, using a specified selection of parts, and make improvements in the design as needed.
eBook
NASA

Nasa: The Way Things Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA compares free falling motion to falling with air resistance. Discusses Galileo's experiment. Explains why we believe all objects free fall with the same acceleration.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Science Italian Style: Renaissance Machines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate innovative machine designs of the Renaissance, then build a hang glider by following a set of instructions. Modify the design to create a model that can fly longer distances.
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Types of Motion

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about the study of mechanics, motion, the laws of motion, and the different types of motions.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lab Work Forces & Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Analyzing Vectors Using Trigonometry Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A page to go over the skills for analyzing vectors. Review how to find horizontal and vertical components of vectors on this site.

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