Tech Ed Links

Maglev Movie Clip

Cool pictures of magnetic levitation trains

http://bhs.csd3.k12.ny.us/~ppicard/maglev.html

Diagrams of mag-lev trains

http://www.wpi.edu/~kmfdm/ph1121.html

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/ScienceJH.htm

Bridge Builder Program  bb.bmp (49974 bytes) 

http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm                    

NASA using magnets to launch rockets

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/News/1999/News-maglev.asp

 

Blocks and Center of Gravity

http://www.xperiment.se/TaiwanUniv/ntnujava/block/block.html

This is a jump off for web sites covering Newton’s laws of Motion

 http://oldsci.eiu.edu/physics/DDavis/1350/05Laws/ToC.html

http://oldsci.eiu.edu/physics/DDavis/1350/05Laws/inert.html

 

This site contains explanations for Newton’s first law of motion

An object at rest remains at rest….,an object in motion stays in motion…

http://oldsci.eiu.edu/physics/DDavis/1350/05Laws/F%3Dma.html

 

This site contains explanations for Newton’s second law

Force = mass x acceleration

 

http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/projects/vss/docs/Propulsion/2-what-are-the-types-of-rocket-propulsion.html

 

This site gives some great illustrations regarding thrust, propulsion, mass x force.

 

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.html

 

NASA web sites with explanations of various laws

 

 http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/mangan4.9.97.html

 

Help site regarding the solving of an acceleration problem

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/frazier11.23.96.html

 

Another acceleration problem

http://www.geocities.com/cgi-bin/homestead/hood?CapeCanaveral/Lab5400

 

This is a great page for tips on water rocket construction

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5403/#rockettheory

 

More tips on water rocket construction

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Rockets/Bottle.Rocket.pdf

 

Still more tips on water rocket construction (Requires PDF viewer)

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Rockets/Altitude.Tracking.pdf

This is a page describing the use of an altitude tracker

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