Relevant material from MIT's introductory courses to support students as they study and educators as they teach the AP Physics curriculum.
Solving problems is an essential part of the understanding process.
Motion in two dimensions with one dimensional acceleration (projectile) is analyzed with component motions in coordinate system, whereas motion in two dimensions with two dimensional acceleration (circular motion) is analyzed with the help of component accelerations - tangential and normal accelerations.
Solving problems is an essential part of the understanding process.
In this lesson, students learn about work as defined by physical science and see that work is made easier through the use of simple machines. Already encountering simple machines everyday, students will be alerted to their widespread uses in everyday life. This lesson serves as the starting point for the Simple Machines Unit.
This site features motion pictures that showcase work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century. The site includes films of the U.S. Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenics and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events.
Analysis of resultant motion is best fit to the principle of independence of motion in mutually perpendicular directions.
Analyzing collision situation involves application of basic conservation principles in a closed system.
The angular momentum in rotation is a subset of angular momentum about a point in general motion.
Objective questions, contained in this module with hidden solutions, help improve understanding of the topics covered under the module "Angular momentum".
Angular quantities are not limited to rotation about fixed axis only.
What happens when the ground under your feet is ice and it's moving? This video segment adapted from NOVA features some of the dangers faced by scientists conducting research in Antarctica.
Artificial satellites are the backbone of modern communication systems.
Students learn how forces are used in the creation of art. They come to understand that it is not just bridge and airplane designers who are concerned about how forces interact with objects, but artists as well. As "paper engineers," students create their own mobiles and pop-up books, and identify and use the forces (air currents, gravity, hand movement) acting upon them.
There is a characteristic geometric point of the three dimensional body in motion, which behaves yet as a particle.
Under certain condition, COM of rigid bodies is same as geometric center.
Objective questions, contained in this module with hidden solutions, help improve understanding of the topics covered in the modules "Center of mass" and "Center of mass and rigid bodies".
Conservation of angular momentum of an isolated system is a general and fundamental law.
Solving problems is an essential part of the understanding process.
Objective questions, contained in this module with hidden solutions, help improve understanding of the topics covered under the module "Conservation of angular momentum".
