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Physics Teaching Technology Resource: Learning Cycles on Fluids 
  
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This learning cycle features 12 videotaped experiments, organized sequentially for introducing fundamentals of fluid mechanics and Archimedes Principle. Each video includes learning…
http://islephysics.net/pt3/cycleindex.php?topicid=9
TryEngineering: Play Games 
  
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This is a collection of 25+ online games designed to let students think like an engineer and make decisions that apply an understanding of concepts in physics and engineering. Games…
https://tryengineering.org/students/games/
Introductory Physics for Life Science Instructor Resources 
  
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This web page provides a list of textbooks suitable for the Introductory Physics for Life Science Students course.
https://mypages.unh.edu/dawnm/ipls
FoilSim II - Student Version 
  
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NASA Glenn Research Center; Editor: T. Benson
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Web site contains java applet which simulates an airfoil. The user can change the shape of the foil, the type of object used (including a cylinder and sphere), the speed of the foil,…
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/foil2.html
Fluid Friction 
  
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This lab is designed to teach students about the effect of the shape of a ship's hull on the amount of friction it produces in water. Students are expected to design and test their…
https://www.sea.edu/academics/k-12_detail/fluid_friction
Come Fly With Me 
  
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This page describes a lab exercise demonstrating Bernoulli's principle by building detailed model gliders.
http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9010.html
Shock Waves 
  
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This web page explains the physics of sonic shock waves. Text and animations describe and illustrate the wavefronts of sound from a moving point source for the cases of motion equal…
http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/swa_txt.htm
Michigan State Applet Collection: Diver 
  
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This website contains a java applet which demonstrates Archimedes' Principle as well as the ideal gas law through the idealization of a common toy, the Cartesian diver.
https://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/applist/f/f.htm
Snow and Ice Crystals 
  
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A description of how ice crystals form on the earth and much more. A feature of Physics Today, Dec, 2007. Very nice graphics
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2825081
The Science of Cooking: How is a lollipop like glass? 
  
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This web page uses the process of making lollipop candy as an introduction to an amorphous solid that has a range of freezing points. It compares the structure of amorphous and…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/candy/lollipop-story.html
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