Mechanics

 1A MEASUREMENT
  • 1A10 Basic Units
    • Order - 1A10.10 - Basic Unit Set - VEPD 01-01 [video]
    • Order - 1A10.20 - Standards of Mass
    • Order - 1A10.30 - Standards of Length
    • Order - 1A10.35 - Painted Meter Stick
    • Order - 1A10.51 - Inch Cubes
  • 1A40 Vectors
    • Order - 1A40.11 - Meter Stick Vectors
    • Order - 1A40.14 - Vector Components - VEPD 01-04 [video]
    • Order - 1A40.30 - Vector Addition and Subtraction
    • Order - 1A40.31 - Vector Addition (parallelogram) vepd 01-02 [video]
    • Order - 1A40.33 - Vector Addition (head to tail) vepd 01-03 [video]
  • 1A60 Scalling
    • Order - 1A60.10 - Powers of Ten [video]
1C MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION
  • 1C10 Velocity
    • Order - 1C10.10 - Truck on Moving Sheet
    • Order - 1C10.20 - Pasco Dynamics Cart [popular]
    • Order - 1C10.25 - Air Track and Glider
  • 1C20 Uniform Acceleration
    • Order - 1C20.10 - Penny and Feather
    • Order - 1C20.15 - Drop Lead and Cork Balls
    • Order - 1C20.16 - Drop Ball and Paper
    • Order - 1C20.20 - Equal Time Equal Distance Drop
    • Order - 1C20.30 - Inclined Airtrack/Pasco Carts
  • 1C30 Measuring g
    • Order - 1C30.55 - Catch a Meter Stick
    • Order - 1C30.551 - Catch a Dollar
1D MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS
  • 1D15 Velocity, Position, and Acceler
    • Order - 1D15.10 - Ultrasonic Ranger and Student
    • Order - 1D15.20 - High Road/Low Road
    • Order - 1D15.201 - Potential-Kinetic Energy Tracks
  • 1D40 Motion of the Center of Mass
    • Order - 1D40.14 - Throwing Board
  • 1D50 Central Forces
    • Order - 1D50.10 - Ball on a String
    • Order - 1D50.20 - Whirligig
    • Order - 1D50.40 - Pail of Water/Pail of Nails
    • Order - 1D50.45 - Penny on the Coat Hanger
  • 1D52 Deformation by Central Forces
    • Order - 1D52.10 - Flattening Earth
  • 1D55 Centrifugal Escape
    • Order - 1D55.30 - Falling off the Merry Go Round
  • 1D60 Projectile Motion
    • Order - 1D60.05 - Ball to Throw
    • Order - 1D60.10 - Howitzer
    • Order - 1D60.15 - Howitzer on an Incline
    • Order - 1D60.20 - Simultaneous Fall - Large
    • Order - 1D60.201 - Simultaneous Fall - Small
    • Order - 1D60.30 - Monkey and Hunter
    • Order - 1D60.40 - Range of a Gun
    • Order - 1D60.60 - Parabolic Trajectory
1E RELATIVE MOTION
  • 1E10 Moving Reference Frames
    • Order - 1E10.10 - Crossing the River
    • Order - 1E10.20 - Frames of Reference [video]
1F NEWTON'S FIRST LAW
  • 1F10 Measuring Inertia
    • Order - 1F10.11 - Inertia Balance
  • 1F20 Inertia of Rest
    • Order - 1F20.10 - Inertia Ball
    • Order - 1F20.20 - Smash Your Hand
    • Order - 1F20.22 - Hit the Nail on the Head
    • Order - 1F20.30 - Table Cloth Pull
    • Order - 1F20.35 - Eggs and Pizza Pan
    • Order - 1F20.36 - Pen and Embroidery Hoop
    • Order - 1F20.37 - Soda Bottles and Dollar Bill
1G NEWTON'S SECOND LAW
  • 1G10 Force, Mass, and Acceleration
    • Order - 1G10.13 - Motion Up an Inclined Plane
    • Order - 1G10.25 - Acceleration Block
    • Order - 1G10.30 - Mass on a Scale
    • Order - 1G10.40 - Atwood's Machine
  • 1G20 Accelerated Reference Frames
    • Order - 1G20.45 - Dropped Slinky
    • Order - 1G20.76 - Float Accelerometer
    • Order - 1G20.85 - Acceleration Pendulum Cart
1H NEWTON'S THIRD LAW
  • 1H10 Action and Reaction
    • Order - 1H10.10 - Push Me Pull Me Carts
    • Order - 1H10.20 - Newton's Sailboard
  • 1H11 Recoil
    • Order - 1H11.10 - Floor Cart and Medicine Ball
1J STATICS OF RIGID BODIES
  • 1J10 Finding Center of Gravity
    • Order - 1J10.10 - Map of North Carolina
    • Order - 1J10.25 - Center of Gravity of a Broom
    • Order - 1J10.251 - Equal Torques, But Not Equal Masses
    • Order - 1J10.30 - Meterstick on Fingers
    • Order - 1J10.41 - Kneeling Human
  • 1J11 Exceeding Center of Gravity
    • Order - 1J11.10 - Leaning Tower of Pisa
    • Order - 1J11.15 - Tipping Block on Incline
    • Order - 1J11.20 - Tower of Lire
    • Order - 1J11.50 - Double Cone
  • 1J20 Stable, Unstab., and Neut. Equi
    • Order - 1J20.20 - Fork, Spoon and Match
    • Order - 1J20.25 - Fourteen Nails on One
    • Order - 1J20.32 - Spoon on Nose
    • Order - 1J20.45 - Balancing Bear
    • Order - 1J20.451 - Balancing Bird
    • Order - 1J20.60 - Wine Bottle Balance
  • 1J30 Resolution of Forces
    • Order - 1J30.10 - Suspended Block
    • Order - 1J30.20 - Tension in a String
    • Order - 1J30.25 - Rope and Three Students
    • Order - 1J30.40 - Booms
    • Order - 1J30.60 - Sail Against the Wind
  • 1J40 Static Torque
    • Order - 1J40.10 - Grip Bar
    • Order - 1J40.20 - Torque Beam
    • Order - 1J40.25 - Different Radii Discs
1K APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON'S LAWS
  • 1K10 Dynamic Torque
    • Order - 1K10.10 - Tipping Block
    • Order - 1K10.30 - Walking the Spool
    • Order - 1K10.50 - Rolling Uphill
  • 1K20 Friction
    • Order - 1K20.10 - Friction Blocks
    • Order - 1K20.15 - Weight Dependence of Friction
    • Order - 1K20.20 - Area Dependence of Friction
    • Order - 1K20.30 - Static vs. Sliding Friction
    • Order - 1K20.35 - Angle of Repose
    • Order - 1K20.40 - Front and Rear Brakes
  • 1K30 Pressure
    • Order - 1K30.10 - Bed of Nails
    • Order - 1K30.15 - Balloon Bed of Nails
1L GRAVITY
  • 1L20 Orbits
    • Order - 1L20.18 - Orbits in a Spherical Cavity
    • Order - 1L20.40 - Conic Sections
1M WORK AND ENERGY
  • 1M10 Work
    • Order - 1M10.20 - Pile Driver
    • Order - 1M10.25 - Pile Driver with Pop Cans
  • 1M20 Simple Machines
    • Order - 1M20.10 - Pulley System
    • Order - 1M20.40 - Levers
  • 1M40 Conservation of Energy
    • Order - 1M40.10 - Bowling Ball Pendulum
    • Order - 1M40.15 - Stopped Pendulum
    • Order - 1M40.20 - Loop the Loop
    • Order - 1M40.30 - Ball in Track
    • Order - 1M40.40 - Ballistic Pendulum
    • Order - 1M40.90 - Rattleback
1N LINEAR MOMENTUM AND COLLISIONS
  • 1N10 Impulse and Thrust
    • Order - 1N10.20 - Egg in Sheet
  • 1N22 Rockets
    • Order - 1N22.20 - Water Rocket
    • Order - 1N22.25 - Balloon Rocket
  • 1N30 Collisions in One Dimension
    • Order - 1N30.10 - Collsion Balls [popular]
    • Order - 1N30.12 - Irritating Collision Balls
    • Order - 1N30.50 - Impulse Pendulum
    • Order - 1N30.53 - Ball-Block Collision
    • Order - 1N30.60 - Double Ball Bounce
    • Order - 1N30.601 - Astro-Blaster
1Q ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS
  • 1Q10 Moment of Inertia
    • Order - 1Q10.10 - Inertia Wands and Two Students
    • Order - 1Q10.101 - Balancing a Bat
    • Order - 1Q10.40 - Racing Disks [popular]
  • 1Q20 Rotational Energy
    • Order - 1Q20.50 - Faster Than 'g'
    • Order - 1Q20.60 - Falling Meter Sticks
  • 1Q30 Transfer of Angular Momentum
    • Order - 1Q30.10 - Passing the Wheel
    • Order - 1Q30.20 - Drop Bags of Rice
    • Order - 1Q30.30 - Catch the Ball
  • 1Q40 Conservation of Angular Momentu
    • Order - 1Q40.10 - Rotating Stool with Dumbbells [popular]
    • Order - 1Q40.20 - Stability of Orbits
    • Order - 1Q40.23 - Governor
    • Order - 1Q40.25 - Pulling on the Whirligig
    • Order - 1Q40.30 - Rotating Stool and Bicycle Wheel [popular]
    • Order - 1Q40.33 - Drop the Cat
    • Order - 1Q40.80 - Hero's Engine
  • 1Q50 Gyros
    • Order - 1Q50.20 - Bicycle Wheel Gyro [popular]
    • Order - 1Q50.201 - Gyro with Adjustable Weights
    • Order - 1Q50.25 - Double Wheel Gyro
    • Order - 1Q50.30 - Mitac Gryo
    • Order - 1Q50.74 - Trapeze Gyro
  • 1Q60 Rotational Stability
    • Order - 1Q60.30 - Tippee Top
    • Order - 1Q60.35 - Spinning Football
    • Order - 1Q60.37 - Ellipsoid
    • Order - 1Q60.40 - Tossing the Book
1R PROPERTIES OF MATTER
  • 1R10 Hooke's Law
    • Order - 1R10.10 - Stretching a Spring
  • 1R20 Tensile and Compressive Stress
    • Order - 1R20.20 - Bending Beam
  • 1R30 Shear Stress
    • Order - 1R30.10 - Shear Book
  • 1R40 Coefficient of Restitution
    • Order - 1R40.10 - Coefficient of Restitution
    • Order - 1R40.30 - Bounce/No Bounce Balls
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