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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Egg Drop Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
This egg-drop simulation allows students to explore the variables that result in a safe landing or a broken egg. The emphasis of the accompanying activity sheet is on the use of science reasoning skills to understand the physics behind...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Collisions: Exploding Carts Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore different situations where two side-by-side carts on a low-friction track push away from each other and travel in opposite directions. The goal is to investigate the effects on the relative mass.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
As a continuation of the theme of potential and kinetic energy, this lesson introduces the concepts of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions. Many sports and games, such as baseball and ping-pong, illustrate the ideas of momentum...
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps2 1: Collision Design Solution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Help your young scholars explore how the motion of objects changes during a collision. This website includes work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that focus on collision design solution.
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Other

Lansing Community College: Career Facts for Collision Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, explore career facts about the field of auto body work and collision repair. Topics include salary, essential skills, and training requirements.
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Other

Uc Santa Cruz: Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
A physics definition of collisions with examples to illustrate the concept and related links to problems and solutions.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Momentum and Collisions

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about momentum and collisions in the science of physics and the laws of motion including units and measurement. Calculate momentum using mass times velocity.
eBook
Libre Text

Libre Text: Collision Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a summary of collision theory and its relation to reaction rate. It includes links to higher-level explanations.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Parallel and Intersecting Lines: A Collision Course?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students act as civil engineers developing safe railways as a way to strengthen their understanding of parallel and intersecting lines. Using pieces of yarn to visually represent line segments, students lay down "train tracks" on a...
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California Institute of Technology

Spitzer Science Center: Galactic Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
Under the heading, "Forensic Evidence of a Galactic Collision" this site examines specific details of an image displaying the collision involving the Andromeda Galaxy with a neighboring galaxy (Messier 32) more than 200 million years ago.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Momentum & Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
Review momentum and collisions with this collection of video lectures from East Los Angeles College. Lectures vary in length and explain the concepts with examples.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Inelastic Collisions & Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains why conservation of momentum can be applied to inelastic collisions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Perfectly Inelastic Collisions & Conservation of Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains why conservation of momentum can be applied to perfectly inelastic collisions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Perfectly 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 a perfectly inelastic collision.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe the law of conservation of linear momentum, derive an expression for the conservation of momentum, explain conservation of momentum with examples, and explain the law of...
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NASA

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Quasar Galaxy Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
An image of a quasar. The large redshifts imply that quasars lie near the edge of the observable universe and must emit tremendous amounts of energy. There are also many embedded links to related topics.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Impulse

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define impulse; describe effects of impulses in everyday life; determine the average effective force using graphical representation; and calculate average force and impulse given mass,...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:3 Investigation 4 Collision Zone

For Teachers 3rd
Learn how forces of push and pull can change speed or direction.
eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecular Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
The General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, or Chem 1, is broken into several sections covering various aspects of topics related to chemistry. This section seeks to answer the question, how far does a molecule travel between collisions?
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice W/ Complex Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on determining the direction of momentum for objects after they collide at angles to one another.
Website
Space Telescope Science Institute

Hubblesite: Observations Shed Light on Jupiter Collision

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Hubblesite of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides basic information and photographs of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. A good site to check out on the subject.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elastic Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students are asked to demonstrate and apply the law of conservation of momentum.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Curling Stone Momentum Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students investigate the nature of a nonlinear collision using curling stones. Students will be able to look at how the velocities before the collision and the mass of the stones affects the results of the...

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