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This is the portal for a collection of 10 short videos that explore the science behind professional football. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the videos aim to provide…
  
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This is the portal for a collection of short videos that explore the science behind professional hockey. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the videos aim to provide engaging…
  
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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…
  
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This shared folder contains subfolders with resources pertaining to the topic of Newton's Laws. It is a snapshot of curricular material on The Physics Classroom website.
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This laboratory activity worksheet engages students in an exploration of mass and weight. Students use a balance to measure the mass and a spring scale to measure the weight of a…
  
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This is a inquiry based lab to introduce motion graphs. Students are challenged to create a distance vs. time graph for a rolling bowling ball. The measurement tools provided are…
  
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This set of 30 interactive problems, developed for high school physics, addresses the learners' ability to distinguish between mass and weight, determine net force, construct…
  
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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…
  
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This interactive tutorial provides a simple explanation of the Foucault Pendulum, a device constructed in 1851 by French physicist Jean Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the…
  
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This learning cycle features 24 videotaped experiments, organized sequentially for introducing Newton's Laws in introductory physics courses. Each video includes learning goal, prior…
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