Physclips: Circular Motion

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published by the University of New South Wales
written by Joe Wolfe

This web page provides a multimedia introduction to circular motion. It includes topics such as acceleration, velocity, vectors, the Earth's rotation, and nonuniform circular motion. Short video clips and diagrams are integrated with text to promote understanding of important concepts.

This tutorial is part of the PhysClip collection of web-based resources on introductory mechanics, electricity, and magnetism.

https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/circular.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General - Newton's Second Law = Force, Acceleration	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- Collection - Instructional Material = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation

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- Learners - Educators - General Publics	- text/html - application/flash - image/gif	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2007 School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Australia
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
Keywords:: acceleration, circular motion, multimedia
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 8, 2009 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:: February 4, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 18, 2007
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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