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Newton's Second Law: Constant Force Applied to a Skateboarder

This activity is a physics lab in which students generate distance vs. time graphs for skateboarders of different masses being pulled with various values of constant force. Students develop procedures, record and graph data, and analyze the data in light of Newton's 2nd law.

Keywords:: Indoor Labs, NSDL, Skateboarding, Education, Data Analysis, Newton's Second Law, Physics

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Science and Technology / Physics

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Material Type:: Assessment Tool
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Holland, Scott
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling
Primary Audience:: High School , College General Ed
Technical Format:: Website

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States