This online resource deals with transfer of energy in a pendulum.
The resource is a PDF of a student activity that focuses on the motion of a pendulum and the factors that affect the period of oscillation of a pendulum.
The resource also looks at the role of energy transformation and the law of conservation of energy.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
A downloadable resource in which students determine a value for gravitational acceleration.
This downloadable resource is a worksheet for a practical activity where students determine a value for the acceleration due to gravity and then compare it to 9.8 ms-2.
Students drop a ball from a height and measure the distance covered and time taken.
The worksheet details the necessary calculations.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This resource looks at the concepts of collisions and momentum.
The online resource is an entertaining student presentation including slides, two videos and a short experiment that focuses on the physics concepts of collisions and the role of crumple zones.
The video shows the equations involved with momentum and impulse to reduce force through crumple zones. Also a short experiment of a collision between a car and a wall, with and without a crumple zone, is shown and the difference in force is calculated and explained.
