Students can use a CBR 2 motion detector to determine their speed or velocity going down a playground slide. They will also experiment with different ways to increase their speed going down the slide.

Practice problems dealing with displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors for horizontally launched projectiles. In these practice problems, students will compare initial speed and time in the air for multiple projectiles.

This brief overview distinguishes speed and velocity. Vectors are explained along with acceleration and gravitation. Diagrams are used to help explain these concepts.

This lesson will explain what speed is, including the difference between average speed and instantaneous speed, showing how to calculate both. It will also show the common units used to represent speed. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled...

Read the passage "The Speed of a Neural Impulse" and completed the related five-question quiz.

This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...

In this activity, students will determine the speed of a moving vehicle using a stopwatch and meter stick, then convert the measurement from meters/sec to miles/hr. After completing this activity, students should understand average...

Students will make go-carts and measure the velocity, then change one variable and see how the velocity changes. They will learn about the equation speed = distance divided by time and practice using it.

University of Alaska physics professor site explaining the concept of terminal velocity. Uses the terminal velocities of humans and cats for comparison. Site contains an interesting graph of the percent fatalities versus stories fallen.

Amelia is a researcher. She studies the speed of animals. Join her in Antarctica to help her figure these calculations.

Learners understand that vectors have both magnitude and direction components as they investigate velocity and acceleration vectors.

Students must determine where a soccer ball will land based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air and the maximum height obtained by the projectile. This problem does not take place on...

Learners investigate velocity. Some topics examined are average velocity, distance, and displacement. The resource includes example problems with solutions, interactive graphs, and a chapter quiz.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Outlines how to calculate the speed of a moving object.

This lab is designed to have students learn the factors affecting the RMS velocity for a sample of gas. The student will be able to set the temperature of the environment and the mass of the particles.

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to determine what effect the speed at which a person moves has on the appearance of the distance versus time plot.

Students determine how incline affects speed. They will communicate their results graphically.

Students interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.

Solve problems using vectors that involve velocity, speed, direction, and magnitude. Includes examples and practice problems. Click on the buttons under the practice questions to see the solutions.

This activity will test a student's understanding of the relationships between location and motion as pertaining to time.

In this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.

Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...

This lesson will introduce the concept of velocity, explaining what it is, how it is calculated, and common units used to represent it. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Velocity."

This is an animation illustrating the distinction between the average speed and the instantaneous speed for any given motion.