What is Media-based Learning?
Physics is everywhere, including television shows and movies. Video clips can be used to test conceptual understanding, do data analysis in Logger Pro or Vernier Video Analysis, or address misconceptions. If you are interested in any of the assignments I have developed based on popular TV shows, please email me. I have chosen not to publish them here mainly because I use them as assessments in class on a regular basis.
The Price Is Right
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The Price Is Right
- Hole in One Game: Impulse-Momentum Theorem, Rotation, Kinematics
- Showcase Showdown: Torque, Rotation
- Dizzy Detectives: Conservation of Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, Friction, Projectile Motion
- Krakow, I’m Gonna get You: Momentum, Static and Kinetic Friction, Newton’s Laws
- Counting Bears Is Not Rocket Science: Newton's Laws of Motion, Friction
- My Cheese Is Out of Control: Rotation
- It’s Not East Beating Green: Free Fall Motion
- That’s Money, Honey: Rotation, Rolling Motion
- Worst Night Whenever: Newton’s Laws of Motion
- A Time to Double Date: Collisions
- The First Law of Dirk: Projectile Motion, Momentum and Impulse, Free Fall, Momentum in Two Dimensions
- Staffel 5 Intro: Dynamic Equilibrium
- Falcon-A-Rooney: Momentum and Impulse, Air Resistance
- Girl Meets Cory and Topanga: Projectile Motion, Rotational Inertia
- Birthday Girl: Conservation of Energy, Momentum and Impulse, Projectile Motion
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- iLook Alike: Conservation of Momentum, Conservation of Energy, Friction
- The Rise of Five: Rotational Motion
- Late Bus: Projectile Motion
- Opening Credits: Newton's Laws of Motion
- Storm and Grubb: Conservation of Momentum, Rotational Inertia
- Cat Named Beschamel: Free Body Diagrams, Newton’s Laws
- Spice Heist: Friction
- Brothers Grubb: Rotation
- Just Desserts: Work-Energy Theorem
- Smells Like Team Spirit: Conservation of Energy, Conservation of Momentum, Projectile Motion
- Report Card: Escape Velocity
- Banished! Conservation of Energy, Friction
- Going Wonkers: Simple Harmonic Motion, Impulse-Momentum Theorem
- Restaurant Crashers: Kinematics, Rotation, Conservation of Energy
- Up Up and Vacay: Simple Harmonic Motion, Period of a Pendulum
- He Got Game Night: Frictional Torque
- Four Supes and a Baby: Kinematics, Newton’s Laws of Motion
- On the Straight and Arrow: Kinematics, Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Momentum and Impulse