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> Forces and motion

The relationship between forces and motion is counter-intuitive and so needs careful explanation. We provide experiments that show a variety of ways of measuring position and time. These measurements lead to concepts of speed, velocity, momentum and acceleration.

Experiment collections

  • Introduction to forces
  • Stretching and force
  • Friction, turning and other effects
  • Time, distance and speed
  • Inertia and Newton's first law
  • Acceleration
  • Acceleration due to gravity
  • Components of motion
  • Force, mass and acceleration - Newton's second law
  • Gravitational force and free fall
  • Action and reaction - Newton's third law
  • Momentum
  • Momentum in two dimensions
  • Circular motion
  • Oscillations
  • Simple harmonic motion

Guidance

  • Solving problems - forces or energy?
  • Using speed-time graphs to find an equations
  • Newton's law of motion
  • Discussion leading to Newton's second law
  • Inertia
  • Weightless?
  • Multiflash photography
  • Classroom management in semi-darkness
  • Two dimensional motion
  • A language for measurments
  • Straight line graphs
  • The automatically straight-line graph

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