Force & Mass

Resources

• miscellaneous
  • Duck! Incoming! (chicken cannon), USAF News Agency
  • Manipulation of Single Biomolecules (pulling DNA), Terence Strick, Jean-François Allemand, Vincent Croquette, and David Bensimon, Physics Today, October 2001.
  • Lindner, D., Marretta, S., Pijanowski, G., Johnson, A., Smith, C. "Measurement of bite force in dogs: a pilot study." Journal of Veterinary Dentistry. 1 June 1995,, Vol. 12 No. 2: 49-52.
• free body diagrams
  • Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court.The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37 No. 7 (October 1999): 427-433.
    • LM1–LM18: Linear Motion
    • CM1–CM9: Circular Motion
  • Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body diagrams. Kurt Fisher.The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37 No. 7 (October 1999): 434-435.
    • #01–06: Linear Motion
  • Free-body diagrams. James E. Court.The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31 No. 2 (February 1993): 104-108.
    • #01–19: Linear Motion
    • #20–28: Circular Motion
    • #29–32: Simple Harmonic Motion
• humor
  • Physics Teacher's Car Accident Would've Made Perfect Example for Class. The Onion. Vol 45 No. 49 (2009).
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Phiolosopy). Isaac Newton (5 July 1687).
  • Google Books. Latin First Edition. 1687.
  • Google Books. Latin Third Edition. 1833.
  • The Internet Archive. First American Edition. Translated by Andrew Motte (1729).
• audio on demand
  • The Laws of Motion. In Our Time. BBC Radio 4 (2008). In 1687 Isaac Newton attempted to explain the movements of everything in the universe, from a pea rolling on a plate to the position of the planets. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Newton's Laws of Motion. It was a brilliant, vaultingly ambitious and fiendishly complex task; it took him three sentences.
• video on demand
  • The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
    • Inertia. Galileo risks his favored status to answer the questions of the universe with his law of inertia.
    • Newton's Laws. Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.
  • Three Incorrect Laws of Motion. Veritasium. YouTube (2011). Newton's Three Laws of Motion are a landmark achievement in physics. They describe how all objects move. Unfortunately most people do not really understand Newton's Laws because they have pre-existing ideas about the way the world works. This film is about those pre-existing ideas. By recognizing what people are thinking, it becomes easier to describe the correct scientific concepts of Newton's Three Laws and how they differ from this "intuitive physics".