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TED-Ed

Free Falling in Outer Space

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
How do satellites orbit the earth? Technically they are free-falling, but missing Earth's surface! Being explained in great detail and with entertaining animation, these concepts are sure to amaze your starling scientists! Another plus...
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GPB Television

Physics 101: Physics Metrics

For Students 6th - 9th
A half-hour introductory video on mechanics and the metric system was produced with beginning physicists in mind. Note-taking guides are provided, in addition to a follow-up metric worksheet. For the lab, learners construct paper frogs....
Instructional Video4:03
Physics Girl

Crazy Pool Vortex

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Tornadoes, hurricanes, whirlpools, and water going down the drain all contain of a vortex. The video demonstrates how to create two vortices that travel together the length of a swimming pool. It explains the physics behind the concept...
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MinuteEarth

What Happened To This Car?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
On June 7, 1692, at 11:43 am, the Jamaican city of Port Royal sank into the harbor, killing more than 2,000 people. The video explains this disaster and others that were caused by liquefaction, describes the conditions required, and...
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Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Contact Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how contact forces result from interatomic forces. [5:29]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Introduction to Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
A video lesson investigating how frictional forces are involved in almost all of your everyday activities. Understand that the resistance you feel when sliding objects past each other or moving objects through water and air is friction....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mathematical Interpretation of Kinetic Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial provides a mathematical interpretation of kinetic friction as compared with a normal force. [4:27]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sliding Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
This video presentation explains what sliding friction is, and how it is experienced. [5:32]
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Force and Motion

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and quiz on how force must overcome inertia in order to produce motion.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: Static Kinetic Friction Forces: Similarities & Differences

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students move past the misconception that friction inhibits our ability to do things by watching videos and participating in corresponding activities. Activities which range in difficulty include calculating the coefficient of friction.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Video lesson serves as a primer on identifying balanced and unbalanced forces. [8:11]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Tension Forces & Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
A video lesson explaining how tension forces can be used to determine the force of friction acting on an object. [6:33]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force of Friction Keeping the Block Stationary

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan explains how a block of wood is kept stationary by the force of friction (correction made in next video). [8:40]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force of Friction Keeping Velocity Constant

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal Khan demonstrates how to calculate the coefficient of kinetic friction (correction made in next video). [9:08]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Static & Kinetic Friction: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson explains the difference between static and kinetic friction. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Static & Kinetic Friction." [6:58]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Thermal Energy From Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video David shows how to find the energy generated by the force of friction and solves an example conservation of energy problem involving thermal energy. [14:47]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Types of Forces and Free Body Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
Sal defines and compares tension, weight, friction and normal forces using free body diagrams. [8:03]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Tension Forces & Friction: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how tension forces can be used to determine the friction force acting on an object. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Tension Forces & Friction."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inclined Planes and Friction: Static and Kinetic Friction Example

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video lecture, the topics of static and kinetic friction are explored with examples. The video discusses free-body diagrams and the forces that affect the movement of objects. [9:49]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inclined Planes: Force of Friction Keeping the Block Stationary

For Students 9th - 10th
A block of wood is kept stationary by the force of friction. (A correction to this video is made in the next video.) [8:41]
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Science of Speed: Friction and Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
Friction always creates heat. Brakes and tires depend on friction to work, while the opposite is true of an engine. Engine builders use oil and high-tech coatings to get more power from an engine. [5:25]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Force of Friction Keeping Velocity Constant

For Students 11th - 12th
Calculate the coefficient of kinetic friction for a block that is on an incline plane with this video lecture. Video includes a step-by-step process for solving these types of problems. [9:09]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inclined Planes and Friction: Inclined Plane Force Components

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the components of the force due to gravity that are parallel and perpendicular to the surface of an inclined plane. [12:43]
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Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #6: Friction

For Students 9th - 10th
In today's episode of Crash Course Physics, Dr. Shini Somara tells us about static and kinetic friction; how they work and how they're different. [10:58]

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