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Record: 1044
Core Unit II: Mechanical Energy - Work. Good Notes on Work Power & Energy from Government of Saskatchewan Get notes on Power & Energy by clicking next. Good review for students. Most appropriate for grade 11

Record: 1046
Notes on work, energy and momentum. Standard derivations. Includes information on collisions. At high school level although it contains a few references to calculus.

Record: 1225
About HyperPhysics. Extremely well organized webpage on the mechanics unit. The site has a myriad of equation calculators for you to work with. If you have a few computers in your room with web access you can assign your students to create a problem based on the current unit trade it with a friend and then they can check their answers using the calculators. You may have to demonstrate its use first. This site could also be a useful site to help student review the links among mechanics concepts. They could use this a model to develop their own concept map of mechanics concepts at their own level.

Record: 1380
Hot Dog! The Particleboard of Meat Use a metal mesh satellite dish covered in plastic mirror pieces to cook hotdogs using the sun. You're sure to gather the interest of kids regardless of their age with this solar cooker. First published in the Crucible Nov.2004

Record: 1424
Rotational Motion and the Chain Saw. This Demonstration is used to introduce rotational motion with one elastic band and a sheet of newsprint. First published in the October 2006 Crucible
Record: 1474
Martial Arts can give you the H.O.T.S. (Higher Order Thinking Skills) This article describes an interactive workshop which has participants breaking boards, punching pads, tripping opponents. First published in the Sept. 2007 Crucible
Record: 1514
Organic LEDs: A new display technology. You're in the market for a TV and you are faced with a myriad of acronyms: HDTV, LCD, NTSC, etc. Now add another acronym to your list: OLED (or organic light emitting diode). Learn more in this review and the link to the reference website. By Racquel Carlow. First published in the March Crucible 2008
Record: 1566
Sim depicts a skateboarder and graphs Potential, Kinetic, and Thermal Energy and also Total Energy vs position and vs time for a variable track and various values of gravity (eg Moon, Earth, Jupiter). Good physics an a fun setting.

Record: 1577
A realistic mass and spring laboratory. Hang masses from springs and adjust the spring stiffness and damping. You can even slow time. Transport the lab to different planets. A chart shows the kinetic, potential, and thermal energy for each spring.

Record: 1594
Explore forces, energy and work as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces acting on the file cabinet. Graphs show forces, energy and work. May apply to a ramp with and without friction.