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Acceleration Applets
| Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration Graphs | We visited this site in the last chapter, but it's useful to review it here | 4 Star | |
| Graph representing velocity of a skydiver | Can you explain the different stages? From absorblearning.com | 4 Star | |
| Explained in terms of forces | From absorblearning.com | 4 Star | |
| Braking and Reaction Time | Working out stopping distances involves more than just hitting the brakes | 4 Star | |
| Test your reaction time | 4 Star | ||
| Freefall
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Drop a tennis
ball down a tube, and then by clicking on graph, you get a graph of
displacement, velocity or acceleration against time. From explorelearning.com so limited to 5 minutes |
5 Star | |
| Galileo experiment - dropping hammer and feather on the moon. | Youtube - 1 min - quality isn't great | 3 Star | |
| Same as above - from teachersdomain | 3 Star | ||
| And dropping them from the tower of Pisa (in a bell jar!) | Animation of famous Galileo experiment | 5 Star | |
| Physics of Skydiving and terminal velocity | Colonel Joe Kittinger sky-dives from space! |
5 Star | |
| Web-site about those who have survived incredible falls. Text-based | 3 Star | ||
| Excellent animations | 5 Star | ||
| Freefall Experiment | |||
| Simulation of freefall expt | Interactive |
4 Star | |
| Mandatory experiment: To measure g by freefall | MyYoutube - 10 mins |
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