Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Conservation of Momentum
View a simulation that shows the reaction to a cart on wheels carrying a swinging pendulum.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Design a Roller Coaster
An interactive lesson where students design and build their own virtual roller coaster. Choose the height of the hills. the shape of the hills. and loop to find out if you successfully used physics concepts to pass the safety and fun...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Physical Science
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with the physical sciences. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
Rice University
Galileo Project: Galileo Timeline
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University contains a detailed description of Galileo's life and work on a timeline. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related subjects.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Swinging Ellipses: Plotting an Ellipse
In this activity, Students can use a motion detector to record the position and velocity of a swinging pendulum. They will plot the data as a velocity versus position phase plot and determine an ellipse that fits it.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Newton's Cradle
Adjust the mass of one of the balls to see how the other objects are affected in the animated Newton's Cradle.