PhysClips: Newton's Laws

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

This set of focused materials on Newton's Laws is part of the PhysClips collection of multimedia tutorials. Force interactions, inertial frames, and action-reaction are depicted in film clips, simulations, still images, and diagrams, many of which are interactive. Don't miss the lessons on Coriolis forces, Foucault's pendulum, and the physics of sailing. This resource is appropriate for algebra-based introductory physics courses.

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https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/mechanics/chapter5_Newt...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Newton's First Law - Newton's Second Law - Newton's Third Law Education Practices - Technology = Multimedia	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial - Reference Material - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2006 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:: Coriolis, Foucault pendulum, Newton, Newton's Law simulation, film clips, force diagrams, force interaction, force simulations, forces, frame of reference, inertial mass, multimedia, net force, tutorial, video clips
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 2, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: October 2, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 31, 2010
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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3. The Nature of Technology

3A. Technology and Science

9-12: 3A/H3b. One way science affects society is by stimulating and satisfying people's curiosity and enlarging or challenging their views of what the world is like.
9-12: 3A/H4. Engineers use knowledge of science and technology, together with strategies of design, to solve practical problems. Scientific knowledge provides a means of estimating what the behavior of things will be even before they are made. Moreover, science often suggests new kinds of behavior that had not even been imagined before, and so leads to new technologies.

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.
6-8: 4F/M3b. If a force acts towards a single center, the object's path may curve into an orbit around the center.
9-12: 4F/H1. The change in motion (direction or speed) of an object is proportional to the applied force and inversely proportional to the mass.
9-12: 4F/H2. All motion is relative to whatever frame of reference is chosen, for there is no motionless frame from which to judge all motion.
9-12: 4F/H4. Whenever one thing exerts a force on another, an equal amount of force is exerted back on it.
9-12: 4F/H8. Any object maintains a constant speed and direction of motion unless an unbalanced outside force acts on it.

8. The Designed World

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9-12: 8B/H1. Manufacturing processes have been changed by improved tools and techniques based on more thorough scientific understanding, increases in the forces that can be applied and the temperatures that can be reached, and the availability of electronic controls that make operations occur more rapidly and consistently.

10. Historical Perspectives

10B. Uniting the Heavens and Earth

9-12: 10B/H1. Isaac Newton, building on earlier descriptions of motion by Galileo, Kepler, and others, created a unified view of force and motion in which motion everywhere in the universe can be explained by the same few rules. Newton's system was based on the concepts of mass, force, and acceleration; his three laws of motion relating them; and a physical law stating that the force of gravity between any two objects in the universe depends only upon their masses and the distance between them.
9-12: 10B/H5. Although overtaken in the 1900s by Einstein's relativity theory, Newton's ideas persist and are widely used. Moreover, his influence has extended far beyond physics and astronomy, serving as a model for other sciences and even raising philosophical questions about free will and the organization of social systems.

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