Personal Assistant for Learning
Acceleration
| These PAL tutorials aim to help students learn the definition of the concept "acceleration" and a method of interpreting it properly. To acquire a coherent understanding of this concept, students get practice applying this method consistently in various special cases (e.g., motions along straight or curved paths; with increasing, decreasing, or constant speed; with a speed which is momentarily zero, maximum, or minimum; etc.) |
Instructions: Click on the underlined title of the tutorial that you wish to try. (The tutorials are listed in the recommended order.)
| 1. Increasing speed along a curved path (I) |
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| 2. Increasing speed along a straight path (I) | |
| 3. Decreasing speed along a straight path (P) | |
| 4. Decreasing speed along a curved path (P) | |
| 5. Constant speed along a curved path (C) | |
| 6. Zero speed (C) | |
| 7. Summary and acceleration components (I) | |
| 8. Maximum or minimum speed (P) | |
| 9. Circular motion (I) | |
| 10. Acceleration of a pendulum bob (P) |
