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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Skateboard Disaster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners examine collisions between two skateboards with different masses to learn about conservation of momentum in collisions.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. The two objects have a head-on collision and stick together during the collision.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the unknown mass in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object begins at rest and the two objects stick together during the collision.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object overtakes the other and the two objects stick together during the collision.
Interactive
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (Sph)

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the interactive tool to explore what happens when you change viscosity and collision softness. Can you make it look like water & honey?
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Collision Theory of Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch an animation of atoms and molecules colliding that shows how these particles combine during chemical reactions. Change levels of energy to see how reactions are affected.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Mountain Building

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of tectonic plate collisions. There are illustrations of Indian and Eurasian plate collision.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from Wake Forest University, students will observe the effect of mass on velocity and momentum in elastic and inelastic collisions. Includes background reading, a student handout, and discussion...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses the principle of conservation of momentum and the expression for it, along with examples. It then explains the role this...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Momentum and Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, students learn how work, energy, and power are related to one another in various ways. They also learn about collisions and the conservation of momentum.
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Other

Lancaster University: Particle Physics Package

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of experiments, projects, and articles that will help students understand particle collision and mass, kinetic energy, magnetic field, the Large Hadron Collider, and detection of the Higgs particle.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Crash Test Dummy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about and explore the relationship between force, time, impulse, and momentum in collisions.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Chemistry, Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulations that can help students visualize and understand concepts in chemistry like the collision theory, chemical reaction equilibrium, and polymerization.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Rates of Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will practice expressing the rates of chemical reactions, and they will also describe the collision theory as it relates to chemical reactions.
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Process of Chemical Reactions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chemistry chapter covers everything about chemical reactions. Read about the collision theory, rates of chemical reactions, reversible reactions, and chemical equilibrium. Many pictures and graphs will help to explain the concepts.
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Open Ed

Open Ed Sci: 8.1 Contact Forces

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this unit, students explore a variety of phenomena to figure out, "Why do things sometimes get damaged when they hit each other?" Student questions about the factors that result in a shattered cell phone screen lead them to...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: More Complex Collisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains why momentum is conserved for objects which strike one another at angles.
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Other

Scientists Say Star Collision Caused Dinosaur Extinction

For Students 9th - 10th
"Israeli scientists have a new theory on why the dinosaurs became extinct: cosmic radiation that bombarded the Earth following the collision of two neutron stars." This article discusses the details of the theory.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Momentum

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiclips thoroughly presents momentum with animations and film clips.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Astronomy: Impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 With Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and data from the Hale Telescope of the collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Some of the most excellent ground-based observations of the impact.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens When Continents Collide?

For Students 9th - 10th
Tens of millions of years ago, plate tectonics set North and South America on an unavoidable collision course that would change the face of the Earth and spell life or death for thousands of species. Juan D. Carrillo explains the massive...
Activity
NASA

Nasa: Hubble Observations Shed Light on Jupiter Impact

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists continue to learn from their observations long after the largest collision in history was recorded. Was Comet SL-9 actually an asteroid? What were the dark impact clouds made of? What were the effects on Jupiter's magnetic field?

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