Explain the reasons for each of your assumptions. Speed and acceleration are only two of the many kinds of rates that can be determined in this way. Back to Top Experiments with Motion Robert Gardner. Diagrams, explicit lists of materials needed, answers to puzzles, and a bibliography contribute to the usefulness of this work. Mechanics Fundamentals Robert W. Wood.
Line drawings illustrate all experiments and a glossary explains new terms.
Back to Top Slopes and Ski Trails Harvard provides a web site tutorial that intuitively relates basic concepts in graphing, such as slope calculations and interpretations, to real life and sensible experiences on the ski slopes. Tom Henderson's physics students at Glenbrook High School, have access to some of the best physics curriculum on the web. Your students are invited to learn about kinematics through the analysis of Position to Time graphs with this excellent example of a multimedia and interactive physics text. An interactive virtual graphing lab includes a printable guide that allows the student to vary the magnitude and direction of velocity data and instantly see what happens to the shapes of the position to time and acceleration to time graphs. Free Body Diagrams or FBD's Learn to predict whether or not a body will move with constant velocity or acceleration, by constructing Free Body Diagrams that identify of all the forces acting on the body and their net effect on motion.