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4 Ways to Refresh Your Practice This Summer
Marianna Ruggerio suggests four ways that you can use time in the Summer to balance, rejuvenate your mind, and refresh the joy in your craft.
4 Ways to Refresh Your Practice This Summer
Marianna Ruggerio suggests four ways that you can use time in the Summer to balance, rejuvenate your mind, and refresh the joy in your craft.
Exploring Rotational Inertia
James Lincoln performs a variety of possible experiments to explain how mass and distance affect rotational inertia, variable inertia, and torque.
Exploring Rotational Inertia
James Lincoln performs a variety of possible experiments to explain how mass and distance affect rotational inertia, variable inertia, and torque.
A Better Gyroscope Wheel
In this CoolStuff post, James Lincoln, a high school physics teacher, uses a modernized Gyroscope Wheel to illustrate the concepts of precession and rotational inertia.
A Better Gyroscope Wheel
In this CoolStuff post, James Lincoln, a high school physics teacher, uses a modernized Gyroscope Wheel to illustrate the concepts of precession and rotational inertia.
Standing Waves
In this blog, Aaron Debbink walks you through a digital resource that gives students a conceptual understanding of “standing waves”.
Standing Waves
In this blog, Aaron Debbink walks you through a digital resource that gives students a conceptual understanding of “standing waves”.
Investigating Projectile Motion in a Controlled Environment
This CoolStuff post walks you through an investigation for students to learn about projectile motion and several different lab challenges you can do with your students related to projectile motion.
Investigating Projectile Motion in a Controlled Environment
This CoolStuff post walks you through an investigation for students to learn about projectile motion and several different lab challenges you can do with your students related to projectile motion.
Investigating the Scientific Method: A Better Black Box
This CoolStuff post leverages a unique low-tech approach that allows students to leave their first day of class with the memorable experience of creating a model to explain their hypothesis.
Investigating the Scientific Method: A Better Black Box
This CoolStuff post leverages a unique low-tech approach that allows students to leave their first day of class with the memorable experience of creating a model to explain their hypothesis.
Kinetic Energy and Velocity
Walk through an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model for the relationship between an object’s kinetic energy and velocity.
Kinetic Energy and Velocity
Walk through an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model for the relationship between an object’s kinetic energy and velocity.
Forces and Motion
This CoolStuff post describes an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model of the relationship between an object’s acceleration and its mass using Newton’s 2nd law of motion.
Forces and Motion
This CoolStuff post describes an introductory physics lab that allows students to develop a model of the relationship between an object’s acceleration and its mass using Newton’s 2nd law of motion.
Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and Weight
This Cool Lab utilizes a modeling method to help students differentiate between Mass and Weight
Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and Weight
This Cool Lab utilizes a modeling method to help students differentiate between Mass and Weight
Representing Motion (Constant Velocity)
An easy way to introduce students to some of the different representations of motion is to have them investigate the motion of a Constant Velocity Car.
Representing Motion (Constant Velocity)
An easy way to introduce students to some of the different representations of motion is to have them investigate the motion of a Constant Velocity Car.
Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Create various circuits that cover the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, the flow of current, and the concept of voltage.
Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Create various circuits that cover the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, the flow of current, and the concept of voltage.
Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
Explore illustrations on how Newton's cradle utilizes the conservation of energy. These demonstrations allow for students to engage with the conversion of kinetic energy and visualize it in memorable way!
Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
Explore illustrations on how Newton's cradle utilizes the conservation of energy. These demonstrations allow for students to engage with the conversion of kinetic energy and visualize it in memorable way!
Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
When a bucket of water is swung in a horizontal circle will the water spill out of the bucket? View the concept of Centripetal Force on this CoolStuff Blog post.
Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
When a bucket of water is swung in a horizontal circle will the water spill out of the bucket? View the concept of Centripetal Force on this CoolStuff Blog post.
7 Energy and Momentum Demos That Will Engage Your Students!
Aside from the Newton’s Cradle and the Faith in Physics pendulum, there are not very many well known energy and momentum demonstrations. In this video and article I write to resolve this. I have especially focused on energy because those demonstrations are usually very hard to find.
7 Energy and Momentum Demos That Will Engage Your Students!
Aside from the Newton’s Cradle and the Faith in Physics pendulum, there are not very many well known energy and momentum demonstrations. In this video and article I write to resolve this. I have especially focused on energy because those demonstrations are usually very hard to find.
Top 10 Physics Demos You're Not Doing!
Check out these ten original or very rare demonstrations that you should be doing. They cover many concepts so be sure to check out this CoolStuff post.
Top 10 Physics Demos You're Not Doing!
Check out these ten original or very rare demonstrations that you should be doing. They cover many concepts so be sure to check out this CoolStuff post.
A Better way of Demonstrating Rotational Inertia
Have you ever struggled to describe Rotational Inertia to your students? Then check out this CoolStuff blog, for a simple way to demonstrate the concept.
A Better way of Demonstrating Rotational Inertia
Have you ever struggled to describe Rotational Inertia to your students? Then check out this CoolStuff blog, for a simple way to demonstrate the concept.