Learn to draw free-body diagrams in this simulation where you place arrows to indicate the directions that forces are acting on an object.

Three different motions are presented to the learner in this interactive, with the challenge of determining the distance traveled and the overall displacement for each.

Students explore a variety of variables associated with the trajectory of a projectile including the launch height, angle, and speed. This interactive can be used as a purely exploratory activity or be used with an activity sheet that...

In this simulation, students pretend to launch bananas from a canon to the monkeys at the zoo. The monkeys sometimes let go of the branch at the exact moment the banana is launched. So the students must determine the correct aim angle...

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.

Observe the three planes in an animation where each plane flies amidst a wind that blows at 20 mph. Learn how tailwinds affect the resultant velocities.

Four different animated illustrations that show situations of bananas being thrown at a monkey in different gravity situations.

Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.

Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.

With this animation and explanation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a banana at a monkey in a normal gravity situation.

In this animation, students can visualize and imagine throwing a projectile in slow speed in a normal gravity situation.

With this animation, students can imagine a cannonball being launched from a cannon atop a very high cliff. Imagine as well that the cannonball does not encounter a significant amount of air resistance.

Visualize and read about launching an object from a non-horizontal position so that it becomes a projectile.

Students can imagine a cannonball launched at three different launch angles where the speed is held constant; only the angle is changed. The cannonballs do not encounter a significant amount of air resistance. How will the trajectories...

Consider a plane moving with a constant speed at an elevated height above the Earth's surface. In the course of its flight, the plane drops a package from its luggage compartment. This animation depicts such a situation. The path of the...

Imagine a pickup truck moving with a constant speed along a city street. In the course of its motion, a ball is projected straight upwards by a launcher located in the bed of the truck (with no air resistance). This animation depicts the...

In this physics activity, students will simulate a race car on a circular track. Velocity, acceleration, and force vectors will be analyzed at various places along the track. As the students progress in the activity, prompts for student...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determine the physical description of vector displacement additions.

This site provides an introductory look at torque, the measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate. Provides a definition of torque, illustrations, and also a formula to define torque.

An animation showing a projectile that is launched horizontally. Animation shows the horizontal and vertical components and their velocity.

An animation showing a projectile that is launched at an angle. Animation shows the horizontal and vertical components and their velocity.

By the end of this section, you will be able to observe that motion in two dimensions consists of horizontal and vertical components and understand the independence of horizontal and vertical vectors in two-dimensional motion.

Students learn how to describe the motion of projectiles numerically; specifically how the numerical values of the x and y components of the velocity and displacement change with time. Includes animations and interactive simulation.

An animation depicting the path of projectiles launched at various launch speeds from the fictional Newton's Mountain. Accompanying text discusses satellite motion and the requirements of orbital motion. Links to further information is...