g. Physics nuggets

[You can click on this link to see this collection of applets as a GeoGebra book] a potpourri of interesting physics challenges including         trajectory problems         graphs & pictures - images for 'the eye' & 'the mind's eye'         planetary motion in different reference frames         oscillatory motion         Archimedes' surprise         normal distribution & cumulative probability These applets are designed to help high school physics teachers think deeply about their subject and to better enable them to pose stimulating and engaging questions to their students.         Projectiles, collisions & all that   Digital handball  The Princess and the Key     Projectile w/ Air Resistance   Projectile in Parameter Space  Football & Handball in Parameter Space   Newton & Aristotle: Two ideas about motion     Monkey drop   Monkey drop in 3 frames of reference   Monkey drop - space time diagram   Oscillators   Forced damped oscillator   Coupled oscillators - normal modes   Lissajous - parametric representation of oscillatory motion   2D Oscillatory Motion in Space-Time   Push Me - Pull You   Two clocks in k/n time Planets & orbits  Two planets & a sun - a digital triptych   Planetary orbits in two frames   A Tale of Two Orbits       Other motion problems   The sliding ladder problem   NLAW -a game of kinematics   Sir Isaac's Cars   Sir Isaac's Slalom   Keeping Pace - A Balanced Assessment Task   Pebble stuck in a wheel   Pebble stuck in a wheel -revisited   Baton twirl   Modeling & related issues   A Leaky Bathtub- A metaphor for equilibrium   Archimedes' surprise   Aristotle's Wheel  v = dx/dt   Gear train   How a DVD player works   A Car & 20 Questions   A Car and 20 Questions - Part II   Two analogous(?) problems  Normal distribution & cumulative probability   Starting wave at a stop light   Falling dominoes 1  Horse on road and field    Ship Rendevous   Two motions - One Trajectory Two trains and a Fly   Weigh to go!   Another weigh to go !  2 Gelfand's Horse                   What do you now know more about? What surprised you? What would you like to know more about? Judah L. Schwartz mathMINDhabits by Judah L. Schwartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.