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Swing Ride Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Swing Ride Model simulates a type of ride that can be found at many carnivals and amusement parks. Riders sit in chairs suspended from the ends of support cables. These supports…
  
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Editor: R. Panoff; Publisher: Shodor Foundation
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This Java-based activity lets students manipulate a 3-D rectangular prism or triangular prism to explore surface area and volume. The geometric model is designed to help secondary…
  
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This resource is a set of free interactive Java-based courseware for science and mathematics structured around collections of activities, lessons, and discussions. The interactive…
Physics for Video Games  [ Book ]
  
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This text includes the class notes, laboratories, and programs used in a one semester introductory physics course focused on the physics used in video games. It is written for an…
  
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C. Orban
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This is a comprehensive introductory physics curriculum with programming integrated throughout. Topics cover both classical mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism. It is appropriate…
  
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W. Wolff; Publisher: Tychos.org
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The Tychos project provides a web interface that illustrates various physics concepts in a coding environment. The environment allows instructors and students to modify existing…
  
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This ComPADRE Book contains a list of resources and community projects for integrating coding into high school physics and physical sciences classes. Anyone who knows of other…
  
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R. Vieyra, K. Fisler, J. Politz, B. Lerner, S. Krishnamurthi, and C. Megowan-Romanowicz
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This collection of computational modeling and Modeling Instruction integrated curricular resources are the result of the "Computational Modeling in Physics with Bootstrap" project, a…
  
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This is the web site for Modellus, a modeling tool for mathematics and physics. Modellus enables students and teachers to use mathematics to create or explore models interactively.…
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This web page is an interactive physics problem on vector addition. The page explains the concept of breaking a vector into components and adding them together, and works through an…
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