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Introduction Section
1: Motion Project
1. Getting started. Constant velocity. Running the gauntlet. Project
2. Picturing motion. Getting a move on. Project
3. The tortoise and the hare. Playing catch-up. Project
4. How does a sailboat sail against the wind? Components of force. Project
5. Stepping on the gas. Project
6. Rolling downhill. Measuring acceleration. Project
7. Independence of horizontal and vertical motion. Basketball tossed from a rolling chair. Project
8. Target practice. Horizontal projectile--rolling off a table. Project
9. Taking aim. Shooting a projectile at a target. Project
10. Monday night football. Tracking the trajectory. Project
11. Monkey and coconut. Section
2: Going Around in Circles Project
12. What is the direction of a satellite''s velocity? Project
13. Centripetal force. What is the string that keeps the planets in orbit? Project
14. A gravity well. Following a curved path in space. Project
15. How fast can you go around a curve? Centripetal force and friction. Project
16. Ping-pong balls racing in a beaker. Centripetal force. Project
17. Swinging a pail of water over your head. Section
3: Gravity Project
18. Feather and coin. Project
19. How fast do things fall? Project
20. The buck stops here (the falling dollar.) Using a meterstick to measure time. Project
21. Weightless water. Losing weight in an elevator. Project
22. What planet are we on? Using a swinging object to determine the gravitational acceleration. Section
4. Force and Newton''s Law Project
23. Newton''s first law. What to do if you spill gravy on the tablecloth at Thanksgiving dinner. Project
24. Newton''s first law. Poker chips, weight on a string, and a frictionless puck. Project
25. Newton''s second law. Forcing an object to accelerate. Project
26. Newton''s third law. Equal and opposite reactions. Project
27. Newton''s third law. Bottle rockets. Why do they need water? (Sir Isaac Newton in the passenger''s seat.) Project
28. Pushing water. Birds flying inside a truck. Project
29. Slipping and sliding. Project
30. Springs. Pulling back. The further you go, the harder it gets. Project
31. Atwood''s machine. A vertical tug of war. Project
32. Terminal velocity. Falling slowly. Project
33. Balancing act. Painter on a scaffold. Project
34. Hanging sign. Project
35. Pressure. Imploding cans. Project
36. Pressure. Supporting water in a cup. Project
37. Pressure. Sometimes the news can be pretty heavy. Project
38. Archimedes''s principle. What floats your boat? Project
39. Cartesian diver. Project
40. An air-pressure fountain. Project
41. Blowing up a marshmallow. Less is s''more. Why astronauts do not use shaving cream in space. Project
42. Relaxing on a bed of nails. Project
43. Blowing hanging cans apart. What Bernouli had to say about this. Project
44. Center of mass. How to balance a broom. Project
45. A simple challenge. Move your fingers to the center of a meterstick. Project
46. Center of gravity. How far can a stack of books extend beyond the edge of a table? Project
47. Center of mass. The leaning tower of pizza. Section
5: Energy/Momentum Project
48. The pendulum and your physics teacher''s Ming dynasty vase. Project
49. Two slopes. Different angle, same height. Project
50. Racing balls. The high road versus the low road. Project
51. Linear momentum. Where can you find a perfect 90-degree angle in nature? Project
52. Elastic collisions. Project
53. Inelastic collision. Sticking together. Project
54. Impulse and momentum. Eggstreme physics. Project
55. Using gravity to move a car. Project
56. How can CSI measure muzzle velocity? The ballistic pendulum. Project
57. Angular momentum. Riding a bike.