The Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws

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written by Tom Henderson

This web site contains a number of tutorials relating to Newton's Laws. Each tutorial explains a subject and provides exercises to test the user's understanding. Some are accompanied by images, animations or graphs to illustrate the concepts. Among the subjects are the meaning and types of forces (i.e. action at a distance and contact forces) and Newton's First, Second and Third Laws.

https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/newtlaws

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Newton's First Law - Newton's Second Law - Newton's Third Law General Physics - Collections	- High School - Middle School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Problem/Problem Set = Tutorial

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Intended Users:: Learner
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Formats:: text/html
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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1996 Tom Henderson
Keywords:: acceleration, action reaction pairs, air resistance, force, free-body diagrams, inertia, law of inertia, mass
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created December 14, 2004 by Melanie Carter
Record Updated:: August 3, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 12, 2004
Other Collections:: The PSRC

Newton's Laws of Motion

Author: Nancy Stedtfeld
Posted: April 15, 2008 at 12:46PM

I think your demonstrations will be easy to simulate, even in a prison environment, and help my literal thinkers understand the concepts.

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Re: Newton's Laws of Motion

Author: Cathy
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 10:04PM UTC

> On Apr 15, 2008, Nancy Stedtfeld posted:
>
> I think
> your demonstrations will be easy to simulate, even
> in a prison environment, and help my literal thinkers
> understand the concepts.

Thanks, Nancy. We appreciate that these materials are instructionally useful.
The Editor

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