Phillips Physics

This is a quick lab activity that lets the students see the force difference between a bungee jump and a jump with a non elastic cord. If your lab has force sensors with graphing ability then this is great, if not though you can use a spring scale and some type of slow motion video capture (lots of apps for phones have this feature). The students then need to sketch a graph. For my students, I was not worried about how precise the graphs are, just a sketch to see the difference in time and forc

This is a great guided assignment for Calculus based Physics students. Here are the objectives of the assignment. Introduce how to find the Derivative of a FunctionDifferentiate Position Functions to get a Function for VelocityShow the Velocity Graph represents the slope of the Position Graph.The assignment has a lot of content embedded in with an assortment of practice problems and graphing. The Calculus is very basic. It simply focuses on the method to find the derivative, without a long Calc

This is a great worksheet for students who have already has an introductory lesson on Hooke's law. This worksheet starts with questions based on scientific literacy involving Hooke's law. It then has a few questions that are focused on the fact that the force is directly proportional to the spring constant and the distance stretched and compressed. (ie, what happens to the restoring force when you change the distance stretched or the spring constant). The final page has a few multi-part questio