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This video segment highlights the forces at work on a racecar as it travels around a track. It was designed to promote understanding of velocity as a vector quantity with both magnitude and direction. It also offers an engaging view of factors to be considered in the design of a racecar: torque, drag reduction, and frictional force that is necessary to achieve fast (but safe) cornering.

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Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Applications of Newton's Laws
= Friction
- Motion in One Dimension
= Velocity
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= 2D Velocity
- Newton's First Law
= Inertia in Motion
- Newton's Second Law
= Interacting Objects
Education Practices
- Technology
= Multimedia
- Middle School
- High School
- Instructional Material
= Activity
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
Appropriate Courses Categories Ratings
- Physical Science
- Physics First
- Conceptual Physics
- Algebra-based Physics
- AP Physics
- Activity
- New teachers
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© 1995 http://www.wisc-online.com/copyright.asp
Keywords:
acceleration, centripetal force, drag, friction, motion video, racing video, velocity vector
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created March 14, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:
August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
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when Cataloged:
March 17, 2008

AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

3. The Nature of Technology

3B. Design and Systems
  • 6-8: 3B/M4a. Systems fail because they have faulty or poorly matched parts, are used in ways that exceed what was intended by the design, or were poorly designed to begin with.

4. The Physical Setting

4F. Motion
  • 6-8: 4F/M3a. An unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed or direction of motion, or both.
  • 9-12: 4F/H4. Whenever one thing exerts a force on another, an equal amount of force is exerted back on it.
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(WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 1995), WWW Document, (https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/phy03_vid_velocity/).
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PBS LearningMedia: To Survive at High Velocity (WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, 1995), <https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/phy03_vid_velocity/>.
APA Format
PBS LearningMedia: To Survive at High Velocity. (2008, March 17). Retrieved October 14, 2024, from WGBH Educational Foundation: https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/phy03_vid_velocity/
Chicago Format
WGBH Educational Foundation. PBS LearningMedia: To Survive at High Velocity. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, March 17, 2008. https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/phy03_vid_velocity/ (accessed 14 October 2024).
MLA Format
PBS LearningMedia: To Survive at High Velocity. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1995. 17 Mar. 2008. 14 Oct. 2024 <https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/phy03_vid_velocity/>.
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@misc{ Title = {PBS LearningMedia: To Survive at High Velocity}, Publisher = {WGBH Educational Foundation}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {14 October 2024}, Month = {March 17, 2008}, Year = {1995} }
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