Review for:Feather/Hammer Drop on Moon

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posted: on June 1, 2007 at 10:22AM

My rating of this resource: **

My experience using this resource:
physics

Topic I was teaching:
uniformly accelerated motion; Newton's Laws

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
observe the slower motion due to Moon's gravity and the lack of air resistance on the Moon

Course Level:
Honors or Advanced, Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
I showed the video clip on the Smartboard during class

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Provides additional content

Strengths:
simple but effective; gets the point across (can also serve as a launching point for debunking conspiracy theorists)

Weaknesses:
grainy video; poor sound quality; can't use slow motion to show side-by-side motion even more clearly

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