See a sample syllabus of how we order these materials.

Tips on how to sequence some of these activities with lecture and class discussion.

Survivor: Outer Space

Central Forces on an Air Table

Reduced Mass-Assumptions

Position Vectors

Undoing Reduced Mass

Angular Momentum-Classical Definitions

Degrees of Freedom

Velocity and Acceleration in Polar Coordinates

Polar Plots of Conic Sections

Exploring the Effective Potential

Interpreting Effective Potential Plots

Orbits and Effective Potential

Orbits: Java

Angular Momentum in Polar Coordinates