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This item is a chapter on Newton's First Law and inertia from "The Book of Phyz," a free educator's guide to teaching introductory high school physics.  It features easily-understood content support in the fundamentals of inertia, including a brief history of how the idea of inertia evolved from Aristotle through Newton.  Related student activities, experiments, and a practice test are included in the materials.

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Classical Mechanics
- Motion in One Dimension
= Acceleration
= Velocity
- Newton's First Law
- High School
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Instructor Guide/Manual
= Laboratory
= Lesson/Lesson Plan
- Assessment Material
= Test
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- Physical Science
- Physics First
- Conceptual Physics
- Algebra-based Physics
- AP Physics
- Lesson Plan
- Activity
- Laboratory
- Assessment
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Law of Inertia, free fall, motion graphs, motion labs, quiz, test
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Metadata instance created January 14, 2009 by Caroline Hall
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This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.


Topic: Dynamics: Forces and Motion
Unit Title: Newton's First Law & Inertia

This chapter from The Book of Phyz offers rich curriculum support for teaching about the Law of Inertia.  It features well-written background information for teachers, related activities and experiments, and a unit test with answers.  Don't miss "The Clever Dumbbell" and the "CD Glider" project.

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