Forces and Motion Resources
Videos
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Who was Sir Isaac Newton? A brilliant physicist? A mysterious alchemist? Watch this PBS documentary shedding light on the darker side of the Guy in the (sometimes) Fancy Wig.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us half a mile underground into a spooky abandoned mine, where astrophysicists look for something even spookier: something invisible that dictates how entire galaxies move.
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Astronaut Howard Wolowitz desperately misses gravity while on a space mission in this short clip from Big Bang Theory.
Games & Tools
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Simulate projectile motion by varying projection angles, initial velocities, and even include air resistance if you wish.
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Design your own planetary system, fling comets and put planets into orbit with this easy, cute game that lets you explore gravity.
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Articles
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Read a New York Times article challenging both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking’s views of black holes, those massive collapsed stars from which not even light can escape.
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Peruse a PBS article describing general relativity and its various tests regarding the bending of light, including solar eclipses, orbits of Mercury, gravitational lensing, gravitational redshift, and even time dilation.