Rice University
College Physics for AP® Courses
Take a look at an organized physics course. The 34-section electronic textbook covers material in AP® Physics 1 and 2. Teachers use the text to supplement lectures and have the class work through the labs. Each section contains...
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Utah Open Textbook: 7th Grade Science
Physical and biological factors affect everyday living. Scholars explore electromagnetic forces, motion, the rock cycle, and geological changes. They examine cells as the building blocks of life and how organisms reproduce using images...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Static Electricity: Newton's Laws and Electrical Force
How do Newton's Laws connect with electrical forces? This overview illustrates how they blend together. After studying this explanation, test understanding with the review questions provided.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws
A four-lesson e-textbook covering topics in Newton's Laws. Tutorials include informational text,animations, interactive activities, and quick, interactive comprehension checks throughout the lessons.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors: Inclined Planes
Through examples and interactive practice problems, this physics tutorial helps students understand how forces behave on an object on an inclined plane.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Finding Individual Forces
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students find the value of forces acting upon objects using force equations.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: The Meaning of Force
This interactive physics tutorial introduces the basic meaning of force, including contact and non-contact forces.
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The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Calculating Work Done by Forces
Through interactive practice problems and examples, students calculate the amount of work done by forces.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Types of Forces
This interactive tutorial gives an in-depth introduction to a variety of forces; both contact, and non-contact.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Students study several free-body diagrams to better understand balanced and unbalanced forces.
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The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, Power: Situations Involving External Forces
Through interactive exercises and illustrated examples, students analyze situations involving external forces.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Drawing Free Body Diagrams
Students practice reading situations where forces are acting upon objects in all directions and magnitudes, and then draw free-body diagrams to represent the forces. Each problem has a self-checking key linked right on the page.
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The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion:circular Motion Mathematics
Using the values of speed, acceleration, and force, students explore and analyze the motion of objects in circles.
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The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Gravity More Than a Name
This tutorial is intended for students to strengthen their understanding of gravitation and understand the nature of this force.
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The Physics Classroom: Momentum and Its Conservation: Real World Applications
In this interactive physics tutorial, students examine some real-world applications of the impulse-momentum change theorem, more specifically, some physics in action in the real world.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Finding Acceleration
This physics tutorial provides students some practice using a given equation to find the acceleration of an object.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions
Three complete tutorials on vectors and two dimension forces and motion. Lessons include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension checks along the way.
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The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Internal vs. External Forces
Through illustrated examples and interactive examples, students learn about the two categories of forces are referred to as internal forces and external forces.
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The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Centripetal Force
Through illustrated examples and practice problems, students explore the centripetal force requirement. So for an object moving in a circle, there must be an inward force acting upon it in order to cause its inward acceleration.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors: Forces in Two Dimensions: Addition of Forces
In this tutorial, examine the effect of forces acting at angles to the horizontal, such that the force has an influence in two dimensions- horizontally and vertically.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors: Forces in Two Dimensions:equilibrium and Statics
Through examples and practice problems, this interactive tutorial helps students understand forces that are in a state of equilibrium with a net force of zero.
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The Physics Classroom: Vectors: Net Force Problems Revisited
Through interactive examples and practice problems, this tutorial helps students understand net force-acceleration problems in which an applied force is directed at an angle to the horizontal.
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The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws: Determining the Net Force
Students combine their understanding of acceleration and the fact that a net force causes an acceleration to determine whether or not a net force exists in several practice situations. After each problem, they are able to check their...
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The Physics Classroom: Motion/forces in Two Dimensions: Perpendicular Components
This physics tutorial provides students illustrated examples and interactive practice problems containing perpendicular components of motion.