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Animations for explaining the concepts of force, power, torque, and energy.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/fpte.htm

A curriculum plan with student worksheets and teachers' guides for upper elementary and middle school students which is designed to relate the experience children have on the playground to basic physics concepts.
http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/play/

The techniques and equipment skateboarders use to seemingly bend the law of gravity. In the trickscience section, the site explains the physics behind the stunts, and several experiments to try at home. The equipment section offers an in-depth look at skateboard design.
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Skateboard Science  Magazine questions or comments? email: JavaScript must be enabled to display this email address. Exploratorium...
http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/index.html

Explanations with animations.
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Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion  Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium (solid, liquid, or gas) at a wave speed which depends on the elastic and inertial properties of that medium. There are two basic types of wave motion for mechanical waves: longitudinal...
http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

Various aspects of mechanics are explored allowing the user to change variables to learn the concepts
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Browse the Gizmo Collection ExploreLearning  Data analysis probability Grade 9-12 Number operations Algebra Geometry Measurement Data analysis probability College Developmental math College Alg Precalculus Science Grade 6-8 Earth and space science Life science Physical science Grade 9-12 Earth and space science Biology Chemistry Physics Motion...
http://www.explorelearning.com/i...pResourcesForCourse&CourseID=330

The material presented here is designed to be directly useful to a teacher or student in a more traditional high school or beginning university physics course on mechanics. There are profuse instructions, and some prewritten spreadsheets are available as well.
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 This is where spreadsheets are invaluable. By constructing a spreadsheet to find velocity as a function of time, taking differences of position at successive time intervals, and going on to do the same thing for acceleration, the student (in my...
http://Galileo.phys.Virginia.EDU/classes/581/

Tutorial on kinematics targeting undergraduate engineering students taking courses such as engineering mechanics. Common textbook kinematics problems are solved - always using the same method of solution - the SLIK method. SLIK stands for "Simple Loop Interpretations for Kinematics."
http://home.nycap.rr.com/slik/slikd/index.html