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...

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

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...

Dive into hands-on aerodynamics experiments and dynamic STEM activities that support core science lessons in force, momentum, and speed. This site provides teacher, student and video resources.

An illustrated article helps physics students learn about center of mass and velocity, and define the concept of inertia.

How to calculate average velocity and speed in one-dimension in word problems.

Determine how golf club head velocity affects shot distance. Make your next trip to the driving range educational by conducting this experiment.

Is it scientifically possible to have super speed? Find out in this TED Ed series about the science of superpowers. [4:51]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Difference between velocity and speed, using vector arrows to represent velocity, objects that have different velocities and how to calculate average velocity.

Velocity or speed? Instantaneous or average? Keep building your physics vocabulary.

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

How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.

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

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.

Review the key terms and skills related to analyzing motion graphs, such as finding velocity from position vs. time graphs and displacement from velocity vs. time graphs.

Solve problems where you must find the average velocity or speed by analyzing graphs. Hints and helpful videos are available when needed.

A video camera records 30 "frames" or distinct images per second. (That's for an NTSC camera in the U.S. PAL cameras in other areas of the world take 25 frames per second.) You can use this fact to time events and measure velocity. One...

An activity that explores how two cylinders that are identical in shape and mass may travel down a hill differently due to how their mass is distributed. Learn how the distribution of mass in an object can affect its translational...

Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.

Explains what an anemometer is used for and the different models that have been developed since it was first invented.

Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.

Test your knowledge of velocity and acceleration with this short quiz.

View the answers to a quiz about velocity and acceleration on this site.

Using only two of our fundamental units, time and displacement students will build a framework to predict the motion of objects, starting with one dimensional motion.