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Physics Teaching Technology Resource: Learning Cycles on Harmonic Motion and Waves 
  
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This learning cycle features nine videotaped experiments, organized sequentially for introducing fundamentals of harmonic motion and waves. Each video includes learning goal, prior…
http://islephysics.net/pt3/cycleindex.php?topicid=6
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/
PhET Teacher Activities: Properties of a Wave 
  
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This simulation-based activity for middle school was developed to help students build a foundation to understand basic wave properties. It was created by a middle school teacher to…
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/view/3447
PBS Learning Media: Virtual Pendulum 
  
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This animated Shockwave activity explores pendulum motion by displaying the patterns traced by the tip of an ideal pendulum. Swing it back and forth from different heights and change…
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Wave Machine Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This model simulates the wave generating machine created by John Shive at Bell Laboratories and made famous by the Similarities in Wave Behavior film. The machine consists of…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10481&DocI...
The Animated Chalkboard 2006: Motion 1  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This zip file download contains a package of 22 Windows-based physics animations on velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, rotational frames, and more. It was created as an…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10633&DocI...
Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion 
  
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This is a multi-day instructional unit for middle school science on kinetic and potential energy. Through investigations of waterwheels, roller coasters, bouncing balls, and a…
https://www.teachengineering.org/curricularunits/view/cub_energy_curricu...
Boston University Physics: Connection between Circular and Simple Harmonic Motion Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This interactive simulation offers a way for students to explore the connection between uniform circular motion and simple harmonic motion. The display shows two blocks on springs…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10014&DocI...
Spring Motion Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Spring Motion Model shows the motion of a block attached to an ideal spring. The block can oscillate back-and-forth horizontally. Users can change the mass of the block, the…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10015&DocI...
PhysClips: The Foucault Pendulum 
  
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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…
https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/foucault_pendulum.html
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