Review for:Physics Education Technology (PhET): Projectile Motion

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posted: on June 1, 2008 at 7:39AM

My rating of this resource: ****

My experience using this resource:
Physics

Topic I was teaching:
Projectile motion

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
For students to see how angle and air resistence effects an object and to calculate how to hit a point using projectile motion calcuations

Course Level:
Honors or Advanced, Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
USed it to demo a projectile and the effect of angle and air resistence

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Increases data collection & analysis skills, Provides a virtual lab, Provides practice or tutorial

Strengths:
Easy to use, allows for many different situations to be shown

Weaknesses:
none

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