PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline

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written by Trish Loeblein

These materials are developed specifically to accompany PhET's Ramp simulation, which explores the relationship between applied force, work, and energy. Clicker questions, a lesson plan, and student directions are included. See Related items on this page for a link to "The Ramp" simulation.

This item is part of a larger collection of resources developed by the Physics Education Technology project (PhET).

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy Education Practices - Active Learning = Cooperative Learning	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Lesson/Lesson Plan = Problem/Problem Set = Student Guide

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2005 University of Colorado at Boulder
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Keywords:: Vectors, applied force, clicker questions, conservation of energy, cooperative learning, energy, friction, graph, in-class questions, incline, kinetic energy, motion , potential energy, work
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 8, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: February 22, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 1, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics Source

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=8153">Loeblein, Trish. PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline. Boulder: PhET, July 1, 2008.</a>

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T. Loeblein, (PhET, Boulder, 2005), WWW Document, (https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857).

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T. Loeblein, PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline (PhET, Boulder, 2005), <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857>.

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Loeblein, T. (2008, July 1). PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from PhET: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857

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Loeblein, Trish. PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline. Boulder: PhET, July 1, 2008. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857 (accessed 1 May 2025).

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Loeblein, Trish. PhET Teacher Ideas & Activities: Ramp Activity 1: Using free body diagrams for motion on an incline. Boulder: PhET, 2005. 1 July 2008. 1 May 2025 <https://phet.colorado.edu/en/activities/2857>.

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