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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Perfectly Inelastic Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will need to determine the amount of KE lost in a perfectly inelastic collision.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: The Astronaut Catch

For Students 9th - 10th
Students imagine that they are hovering next to the space shuttle in earth-orbit, and bump into another astronaut of equal mass. If the two astronauts holds onto each other, then how fast do they move after the collision?
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 4 Ps3 3: Energy in Collisions

For Teachers 4th
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 4-PS3-3: energy in collisions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Center of Mass and Two Dimensional Collisions Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference page that reviews two-dimensional collisions with key concepts, equations, and skills to understand center of mass motion.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wgbh: Collisions on an Air Track

For Students 9th - 10th
Set variables for a simulated collision and observe the changes in reaction between two carts. Options include changing the weight of one cart and the type of collision to occur.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collision Course (Part 2)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This is part 2 of a two-part lesson on understanding how speed changes when two objects collide. Students will conduct an experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide....
Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive:comet Collision With Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
Comet collision with Jupiter with lots of pictures and some text. Links to the information about the comet, the impacts, and observations made by four different spacecraft.
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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University

Npac Reu Program: Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University provides a site dedicated to compiling the best images and information regarding Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its collision with Jupiter. Great animations.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Impulse

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains that impulse is the same as a change in momentum, and what role it has in daily life. It then describes how to calculate the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive tutorial students are asked to demonstrate and apply the laws of conservation of momentum.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Linear Momentum and Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial aims to model and predict not the motion of just one object, but rather what happens when two or more objects collide. The concept of momentum will be the main focus of this module.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Net Logo: Gas Particle Collisions Up Close

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation explores the relationship between particle kinetic energies during particle collisions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Stick Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Creating a basic collision check for two objects in a side-scroller game.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Conservation of Linear Momentum and Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore conservation of linear momentum and collisions. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, center of mass motion, variable mass, and momentum. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of perfectly inelastic collisions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Elastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice with Elastic Collisions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the momentum or velocity of objects after they have undergone an inelastic collision.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Inelastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of inelastic collisions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions & Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the momentum of objects after they have undergone a perfectly inelastic collision.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions & Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find the velocity of objects after they have undergone a perfectly inelastic collision.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page features a summary of each section of Chapter 8: Linear Momentum and Collisions from the AP Physics online text.
Handout
NASA

Nasa: Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Collision With Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA provides information on the Shoemaker-Levy collision which, even though the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter happened in 1994, it continues to make news. Read the latest information related to the...
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Other

S F Austin State University /Jupiter Comet Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent links to books, images, videos, and articles about the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Also links to a short page about Gene Shoemaker, one of the team who discovered the comet.
Handout
NASA

Nasa: Latest Conclusions of the Comet Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA allows one to read the reports by scientists of what we learned from observing the giant collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Some are very technical, others for general audiences.

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