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Excellence Center of Science and Mathematics Education at King Saud University
Forces in 1 Dimension
Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and see the resulting friction force and total force acting on the cabinet. Charts show the forces, position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time. View a Free Body Diagram of all the forces (including gravitational and normal forces).
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Main Topics
- Forces
- Position
- Velocity
- Acceleration
Related Topics
- Force, Motion, Friction, Position, Velocity, Acceleration, Gravity, Vectors, Newton's Laws, Dynamics, 1D
Sample Learning Goals
- Predict, qualitatively, how an external force will affect the speed and direction of an object's motion.
- Explain the effects with the help of a free body diagram.
- Use free body diagrams to draw position, velocity, acceleration and force graphs and vice versa.
- Explain how the graphs relate to one another.
- Given a scenario or a graph, sketch all four graphs.
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Ideas and Activities for this Sim
There are 14 contributions listed.
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Author | Level | Type | Updated |
Algebra-based Physics Semester one lessons, clicker questions, and schedule in pdf (Inquiry Based)
  | T. Loeblein | UG-Intro HS | HW CQs Lab Demo | 7/09 |
| Comparing Forces on Different Planets | T. Radil | HS | Lab | 5/08 |
| Concept questions for Physics using PhET (Inquiry Based)
| T. Loeblein | UG-Intro HS | CQs | 8/09 |
| Discovering Newton's Second Law | D. Cameron | HS | Lab | 7/07 |
| Discovering Newton's Second Law
| P. Martinez | HS | Lab | 1/09 |
| Exploring Newton | N. Spletzer | HS | Lab | 9/07 |
| Force introduction | J. Workshop | MS | Lab | 4/09 |
| Force-time graph activity
| A. Paulson | UG-Intro | Other | 11/08 |
| Forces 1D activity 1: Predicting speed and directions changes (Inquiry Based)
| T. Loeblein | HS UG-Intro | Lab CQs | 11/08 |
| Forces 1D activity 2: Relating graphs and free body diagrams using Moving Man and Forces 1D (Inquiry Based)
| T. Loeblein | HS UG-Intro | Lab CQs | 11/08 |
| Forces in 1D PhET Lab | C. Bires | HS | Lab | 1/09 |
| Introduction to Forces in 1-D | K. Frett | HS | Lab | 9/07 |
| Net Forces and Newton's Second Law | S. Graham | HS | Lab | 7/07 |
| Teacher | M. Li | HS | HW | 9/09 |
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Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
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