Resources

• free body diagrams
  • Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 427-433.
  • Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body diagrams. Kurt Fisher. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 434-435.
  • Free-body diagrams. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1993): 104-108.
• humor
  • Physics Teacher's Car Accident Would've Made Perfect Example for Class, The Onion, 1 December 2009, Issue 45·49
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principals of Natural Phiolosopy), Isaac Newton, 5 July 1687
  • Google Books, Latin First Edition, 1687
  • Google Books, Latin Third Edition, 1833
  • Carnegie Mellon University, First American Edition, Translated by Andrew Motte, 1729
  • The Internet Archive, First American Edition, Translated by Andrew Motte, 1729
  • Московский Центр Непрерывного Математического Образования, Перевод Алексея Николаевича Крылова, 1936
• simulations
  • Vector Jockey [exe, zip]. A very simple Windows application that illustrates Newton's laws in two dimensions quite well.
• miscellaneous
  • If action = reaction, how does anything move? A Staff Report by the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, 20 April 2004
• video on demand
  • The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
    • Newton's Laws, Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.
  • YouTube
    • How astronauts do it: Taking a dump in space, Phil West and Charlie Spencer explain how IT is done in space in this NASA educational video
    • Space Toilet, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency at the Ontario Science Centre explaining one origin of shooting stars,