This online resource investigates Newton’s second law of motion.
The resource is a student practical activity. Students time how long it takes a dynamics trolley to travel a set distance along a runway under a given force.
The force is then doubled and the time re-measured. Mass is then doubled and the time re-measured.
Teaching notes are included and related experiments are also listed.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This online resource shows how to build a double pendulum system.
The resource details a student practical activity that focuses on how to build a double pendulum system to illustrate the conservation of energy within such a system.
The resource has an explanation of how it works and some extension activities.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
This online resource focuses on the concepts of inertia, energy and motion in general.
The resource gives instructions for a teacher demonstration where a long string of beads is given a slight tug and practically pulls itself out of a container and onto the floor.
The web page includes an explanation of how it works and how to take the demonstration further.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This online resource investigates the concepts of inertia.
The resource is a student practical activity or teacher demonstration that focuses on the law of inertia and how it can be used to convert the gravitational potential energy of stationary eggs into kinetic energy.
It includes an explanation of what’s happening and definitions of key terms.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
This online resource explores potential and kinetic energy.
The resource is a student practical activity that focuses on demonstrating the transference of energy through the building a model roller coaster.
It includes instructions on how to create a roller coaster using a marble and foam tubing cut in half.
The resource also includes definitions of key terms as well as where to go to learn more about roller coasters.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9), AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This downloadable document is a worksheet for calculating average speed.
The document is for a practical activity where students use a stopwatch, trundle wheel and a flag to record and calculate the average speed of vehicles over a distance.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This hands-on activity deals with energy conservation and transformation.
The resource is a downloadable document that contains instruction and investigation prompts for an intriguing student practical activity concerning energy conservation and transformation.
The activity involves the construction of a cylinder that when rolled away across the floor, slows, stops and returns.
This device is commonly known as a ‘comeback can’ or ‘returning tin’.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
This downloadable resource is useful for demonstrating velocity and acceleration vectors.
The resource, which can be either displayed in a web browser or downloaded as a standalone Java application, is a simulation that illustrates velocity and acceleration vectors as changing arrows as a ball is moved around a screen.
Linear motion, simple harmonic motion and circular motion are demonstrated. The velocity and acceleration arrows can be shown together, or one or both can be hidden to allow students to predict their directions.
This downloadable student activity investigates velocity and acceleration.
The resource is an MS Word document that details a practical activity that focuses on investigating constant velocity and accelerated motion using ticker timers and dynamics trolleys in the laboratory.
The resource can also be used as student worksheets for the activity.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This online resource looks at the transfer of energy.
The resource is a student activity that focuses on the energy conversions between GPE and KE when a ball bounces.
The investigation begins with a teacher demonstration and explanation then moves on to student investigations, dropping different balls from different heights.
Simple but effective.
.Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
