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Introduction
- general
  - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
    - Introduction, This preview introduces revolutionary ideas and heroes from Copernicus to Newton, and links the physics of the heavens and the earth.
- aristotle
  - The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    - On the Heavens, translated by J. L. Stocks
    - The Physics, translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye
  - eBooks@Adelaide, University of Adelaide
    - On the Heavens, translated by J. L. Stocks
    - The Physics, translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye
  - Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
    - Περί Ουρανού a.k.a. On the Heavens a.k.a. De Caelo
    - Φυσική Ακρόασις a.k.a. The Physics a.k.a. Physica

Kinematics
1. Distance & Displacement
  - distance
    - First Verified Walk Around the Earth, Dave Kunst
    - Get Bent: Coast to Coast by Recumbent Bicycle, Glenn Elert
    - Voyager Mission Operations Status Report, NASA
  - height
    - Building Facts & Figures, A View on Cities, Kristiaan Van Ermengem
    - Burj Dubai, Dubai
    - Canadian National Tower, Toronto
    - Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt
    - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
    - Sears Tower, Chicago
    - Skyscraper Museum, New York
    - Taiwan Financial Center, a.k.a. Taipei 101
    - World Trade Center, New York
  - length
    - World's Largest Bridges, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
2. Speed & Velocity
  - galileo
    - Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences. Trans. Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Dover, 1914.
    - Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  - planes
    - concorde
      - Concorde, Air France
      - Concorde, British Airways
      - concorde-jet.com
      - concordesst.com
  - trains
    - train à grande vitesse (TGV)
      - tgv.com
      - L'Excellence Française de la Très Grande Vitesse Ferroviaire
      - Rail Speed Record 574.8 km/h, YouTube, 3 April 2007
      - Extrêmement spectaculaire! YouTube, 3 April 2007
  - automobiles
    - experimental
      - JCB Dieselmax
      - North American Eagle
      - Spirit of America
      - Thrust SSC (Supersonic Car)
    - traffic
      - Speed on the Road, Saint Vincent University
  - track & field
    - results
    - research
      - Athletics: Momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics? Andrew J. Tatem, Carlos A. Guerra, Peter M. Atkinson & Simon I. Hay. Nature 431, 525 (30 September 2004).
      - Will women outpace men in 2156? Helen Pearson, news @ nature.com (29 September 2004)
      - Women May Outrun Men in the 2156 Olympics, Oxford University News (30 September 2004)
  - miscellaneous
    - Faster Than Sound, Nova
    - Ken Warby: The World's Fastest Man on Water
    - Mouse Velocity Experiment, Brian Jones
    - Speed of Animals, InfoPlease Kid's Almanac
    - Voyager Mission Operations Status Report, NASA
    - World Pro Speed Ski Racing Organization
3. Acceleration
  - aerospace
    - Aviation Medicine, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia
    - Cockpit Physics, US Air Force Academy
      - Velocity and Acceleration
      - Pulling Gs
    - Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), Canadian Defence
    - Ejection Site, Kevin Coyne
    - Hazard in Aerobatics: Effects of G-Forces on Pilots, Federal Aviation Administration
    - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
      - This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury; Lloyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander
        
        Zero G
        Multiple G
      - Space Shuttle Reference Page
      - Zero Gravity Experiments, KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
    - Naval Air Development Center History, 1947 thru 1959 (human centrifuge), Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster
    - stapp
      - Stapp, John Paul, National Aviation Hall of Fame
      - One Track Mind, Timothy S. Bailey. Airman. April 1998
  - amusement parks
    - Midway Physics Day Ride Analysis, David J. Tedeschi, University of South Carolina
    - Thinking About Physics While Scared To Death: A Physics Investigation
    - Understanding G Forces, International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA)
  - automotive
    - Could a seat belt have saved Diana? CNN, 5 September 1997
    - Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute
    - Occupant Crash Protection, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA)
    - Renfroe Engineering, Accident Reconstruction
  - cycling
    - Effectiveness of Bicycle Helmets, Michael Henderson, Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
  - galileo
    - Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences. Trans. Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Dover, 1914.
    - Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  - mems accelerometer
    - Accelerometers: Integrated Micro-Electromechanical Systems (iMEMS), Analog Systems
    - Little Machines That are Making it Big, David Bishop, Peter Gammel,C. Randy Giles; Physics Today, October 2001.
    - Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University
  - miscellaneous
    - Allen, M.E.; I. Weir-Jones; et al. Acceleration perturbations of daily living. A comparison to "whiplash". Spine. Vol. 19 No. 11 (1 June 1994):1285-90.
    - Reduction of Blast Induced Head Acceleration in the Field of Anti-Personnel Mine Clearance, Humanitarian Demining
4. Equations of Motion
  - automobiles
    - Road & Track
  - robotic fish
    - Robotuna, Robot Pike, and other projects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tow Tank
5. Falling Bodies
  - drop towers
    - Drop Squad, formerly the Rensselaer Drop Squad
    - Microgravity Science Division at NASA Glenn Research Center
      - Zero Gravity Research Facility
      - 2.2 Second Drop Tower
    - Microgravity Research Center at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  - galileo
    - "Galileo's Discovery of the Law of Free Fall." Drake Stillman. Scientific American. Vol. 228. No. 5 (May 1973): 83.
    - Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences. Trans. Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Dover, 1914.
    - Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - The Law of Falling Bodies, Galileo's imaginative experiments proved that all bodies fall with the same constant acceleration.
  - humor
    - Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory, The Onion, 17 August 2005
  - skydiving altitude record
    - joseph kittinger
      - "Fantastic Catch in the Sky: Record Leap Toward Earth." Life. 29 August 1960: 20-25.
      - Kittinger, Jr., Joe, National Aviation Hall of Fame
      - Leap of Faith, Pat McKenna, Airman. December 1999.
      - "The Long, Lonely Leap." National Geographic. December 1960: 854-873.
      - Skydive from the Stratosphere, Nova, PBS
    - cheryl stearns
      - stratoquest.com
      - cherylstearns.com
      - "The Sky's No Limit for Army Reservist Cheryl Stearns." Steven J. Alvarez. Stars and Stripes. 18 May 2001.
      - "Parachute Jump." All Things Considered, National Public Radio,25 October 2000.
    - rodd millner
      - "Australian plans skydive from edge of space." CNN, 6 March 2001
      - Australian Ex-Commando to Conduct Record-Breaking Space Jump, Space Daily, 5 March 2001
      - "Fallschirmspringer: Der Kampf um die Schallmauer." Der Spiegel, 6 März 2001
      - "Outer Space Skydive Planned." Environmental News Network, 5 March 2001
      - "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Feed, 9 March 2001
    - michel fournier
      - Le Grand Saut (The Super Jump)
  - miscellaneous
    - Falling Georgie [swf], planetdan.net
    - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), University of Texas Center for Space Research
    - Physics by Aristotle, The Internet Classics Archive, MIT
6. Graphs of Motion
  - cycling
    - Speed & Acceleration, Analytic Cycling
  - track & field
    - Mathematical Models of Athletic Performance, Jonas R. Mureika, Loyola Marymount University
    - A realistic quasi-physical model of the 100 m dash. J.R. Mureika. Canadian Journal of Physics / Review of Canadian Physics. Vol. 79 No. 4 (2001): 697-713.
  - traffic
    - Ben Coifman, Ohio State University -- University of California Berkeley
      - Shocking (html)
      - Time Space Diagrams for Thirteen Shock Waves (pdf)
    - Kinematics of Driving: Some "Real" Traffic Considerations, DC Tech
  - tachographs (speed-time graphs)
7. Kinematics in Two and Three Dimensions
  - landing an airplane in a crosswind
    - kai tak, hong kong
      - Boeing 747 over Kowloon City landing Hong Kong Kai Tak 1, airboyd, YouTube
      - Boeing 747 over Kowloon City landing Hong Kong Kai Tak 2, airboyd, YouTube
      - Cathay Pacific 747 landing at Hong Kong Kai Tak, airboyd, YouTube
      - Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747 steep turn landing at Hong Kong, airboyd, YouTube
      - China Airlines Boeing 747 checkerboard landing Hong Kong, airboyd, YouTube
      - Korean 747 Extreme Landing, edgartamch, YouTube
    - laguardia, new york
      - Crazy Ass Approach at New York's LaGuardia, patton303, YouTube
    - miscellaneous
      - A380 Airbus Crosswind Landing Flight Test, bugmenot101, YouTube
8. Parametric Equations
  - no resources for this topic
9. Projectiles
  - general
    - Physics of Projectile Motion, ThinkQuest
    - Projectile Question (try to get it wrong), Cambridge Physics Outlet
  - ballistics
    - JBM Small Arms Ballisitcs
  - catapults
    - Catapult Museum (jump immediately to this page), STAAC?
    - Trebuchet Resource Site
  - galileo
    - Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences. Trans. Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Dover, 1914.
    - Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  - golf
    - Distance, Ed Hebert, Titleist
  - unusual
    - Bowman, nata2
    - Launching Stuff With Liquid Nitrogen, Matt Reilly
    - Loading a motorcycle into a van, eBaum's World Media
    - Punckin Chunkin Championships
      - punkinchunkin.com
      - punkinchunkin.net
Dynamics I: Force
1. Forces
  - free body diagrams
    - Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 427-433.
    - Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body diagrams. Kurt Fisher. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 434-435.
    - Free-body diagrams. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1993): 104-108.
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - 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.
  - simulations
    - Vector Jockey [exe], a very simple Windows application, but it illustrates Newton's first/second law quite well
2. Force & Mass
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
  - 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.
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Newton's Laws, Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.
3. Action-Reaction
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Newton's Laws, Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.
    - If action = reaction, how does anything move? A Staff Report by the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, 20 April 2004
  - space toilets
    - How astronauts do it: Taking a dump in space, Phil West and Charlie Spencer explain how IT is done in space in this NASA educational video, YouTube
    - Space Toilet, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency at the Ontario Science Centre explaining one origin of shooting stars, YouTube
4. Weight
  - no resources for this topic
5. Friction
  - graphite
    - Allotropes, Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt, University of Guelph
  - synovial fluid (animal joints)
    - Linn, Frank C. Lubrication of Animal Joints: I. The Arthrotripsometer. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Vol. 49 No. 6 (September 1967): 1079-1098.
    - Linn, Frank C. Lubrication of Animal Joints. II. The mechanism. Journal of biomechanics. Vol. 1 No. 3 (August 1968): 193-205.
    - Linn, Frank C. and Eric L. Radin. Lubrication of animal joints. III. The effect of certain chemical alterations of the cartilage and lubricant. Arthritis and Rheumatism. Vol. 11 No. 5 (October 1968): 674-682.
  - miscellaneous
    - Airbus A380-800 Brake test, bachian, YouTube (Hey, at least the tires didn't blow out.)
    - An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces [pdf]. Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, & Robyn Williams. Applied Ergonomics. Vol. 33, No. 6 (November 2002): 523-31.
    - Comparison of Different DuPont Fluoropolymers (Teflon)
6. Equilibrium
  - general
    - statics.org originally the home of "Statics Simply Stated", now just another wasted url
7. Force in Two and Three Dimensions
  - simulations
    - Vector Jockey [exe], a very simple Windows application, but it illustrates Newton's first & second law in two dimensions quite well
8. Centripetal Force
  - aerospace
    - Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), Canadian Defence
      - Centrifuge Training
      - Human Centrifuge
    - Multiple G, This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury; Lloyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander, NASA
    - Naval Air Development Center History, 1947 thru 1959 (human centrifuge), Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster
  - artificial gravity
    - Ringworld, Larry Niven
  - free body diagrams
    - Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 427-433.
    - Free-body diagrams. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1993): 104-108.
  - miscellaneous
    - Weapon for centrifugal propulsion of projectiles, US Patent 6,520,169, Charles W. St. George, 2003
9. Frames of Reference
  - aerospace
    - Aviation Medicine, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia
    - Cockpit Physics, US Air Force Academy
      - Velocity and Acceleration
      - Pulling Gs
    - Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), Canadian Defence
    - Ejection Site, Kevin Coyne
    - Hazard in Aerobatics: Effects of G-Forces on Pilots, Federal Aviation Administration
    - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
      - This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury; Lloyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander
        
        Zero G
        Multiple G
      - Space Shuttle Reference Page
      - Zero Gravity Experiments, KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
    - Naval Air Development Center History, 1947 thru 1959 (human centrifuge), Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster
    - stapp
      - Stapp, John Paul, National Aviation Hall of Fame
      - One Track Mind, Timothy S. Bailey. Airman. April 1998
  - amusement parks
    - Midway Physics Day Ride Analysis, David J. Tedeschi, University of South Carolina
    - Thinking About Physics While Scared To Death: A Physics Investigation
    - Understanding G Forces, International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA)
Energy
1. Work
  - automotive
    - Seatbelt Physics, Hyperphysics, Georgia State University
  - medical
    - Predicting Energy Needs, Sharon Kumm, University of Kansas School of Nursing, October 2004
2. Power
  - atheletes
    - Blakeslee, Sandra. How Lance Armstrong Gets His Unusual Energy. New York Times, 14 June 2005.
    - Ostroy, Alex. Training in NYC: Just how much better? you versus the pros. nyvelocity.com,
  - lasers
    - Petawatt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. December 1996.
  - machines
    - Terex Construction Americas, Specifications on the most powerful trucks in production.
3. Energy
  - general
    - Momentum, Work and Energy, Michael Fowler, University of Virginia
  - renewable/sustainable energy
    - FPL Energy (Florida Power and Light), largest wind-electric utility in the US
    - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
    - Seabased Energy AB, using oceanwaves to generate electricity
  - statistics
    - Annual Energy Review, Energy Information Administration (USDOE)
    - Data and Story Library (DSTL)
      - Nuclear Power Story & Nuclear Plants Datafile
      - Oil production Story & Oil production Datafile
    - Energy in the United States 1635-2000, Energy Information Administration
    - Energy Statistics, International Energy Agency (IEA)
4. Kinetic Energy
  - no resources for this topic
5. Potential Energy
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Potential Energy, Potential energy provides a powerful model for understanding why the world has worked the same way since the beginning of time.
6. Conservation of Energy
  - historical
    - On the Conservation of Force [Energy], Hermann Helmholtz (1863), Modern History Sourcebook
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Conservation of Energy, According to one of the major laws of physics, energy is neither created nor destroyed.
7. Simple Machines
  - general
    - Secrets of Lost Empires, Public Broadcasting Service
    - Work is Simple with Simple Machines, Simple machines and their influence in everyday life
Dynamics II: Momentum
1. Impulse & Momentum
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
2. Conservation of Momentum
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
    - Selected Works of Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky (2004)
  - serious educational videos
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Conservation of Momentum, What keeps the universe ticking away until the end of time?
  - wacky recoil videos
3. Momentum & Energy
  - newton's balls
    - Burning Man 1996: Newton's Balls, Michael "Mickey" Sattler, Geek Times
  - raptor
    - Brookhaven Builds a Better Jackhammer, DOE Science News, 8 January 2001
    - Brookhaven Lab and Gas Research Institute Sign a CRADA to Develop a Quiet Jackhammer, BNL, 20 July 1999
    - Brookhaven Lab's Quiet Jackhammer Wins Popular Science Magazine Award, BNL, 9 November 2000
    - RAPTOR: The Quiet Jackhammer [pdf], BNL, date uncertain
4. Momentum in Two and Three Dimensions
  - accident reconstruction
    - Renfroe Engineering, USA
    - Lancashire Investigation, UK
    - Unfallanalyse Berlin, Deutschland
Rotational Motion
1. Rotational Kinematics
  - general
    - What's the difference between CLV, CAV, P-CAV and Z-CLV?, CD Speed, Erik Deppe
2. Rotational Inertia
  - no resources for this topic
3. Rotational Dynamics
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Torques and Gyroscopes, From spinning tops to the precession of the equinoxes.
  - earth
    - Rotation of the Earth, Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt, The Science Corner, University of Guelph, 13 September 1984
  - free body diagrams
    - Free-body diagrams revisited — II. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 8 (November 1999): 490-495.
  - human physiology
    - Introduction to Muscle Physiology and Design
      - Joint Moment Arm
      - Muscle-Joint Interactions
4. Rotational Equilibrium
  - center of mass
    - Centers of Population for Census 2000, US Census Bureau
  - egg balancing
    - Standing an egg on end on the Spring Equinox, Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
    - Can you stand eggs on end at the vernal equinox and at no other time? Cecil Adams, Straight Dope
    - Equinox Means Balanced Light, Not Balanced Eggs, Von Del Chamberlain, Clark Foundation
  - free body diagrams
    - Free-body diagrams revisited — II. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 8 (November 1999): 490-495.
  - strauss bascule bridge
    - La Salle Causeway, Google Maps
    - patents
5. Angular Momentum
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Angular Momentum, An old momentum with a new twist.
      - Torques and Gyroscopes, From spinning tops to the precession of the equinoxes.
  - earth's rotation
    - International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
      - hpiers.obspm.fr
      - www.iers.org
    - NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth['s Rotation]
    - Rotation of the Earth, Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt, University of Guelph
  - sports & fitness
    - Dynaflex, makers of the Dynaflex wrist exercise ball
      - US Patent 7,102,258
  - space launch facilities
    - australia
      - [location] [website] Woomera Launch Site (Disused)
      - [location] [website] Cape York Spaceport (Proposed)
      - [location] [website] Christmas Island Spaceport (Proposed)
    - brazil
      - [location] [website] Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara (Alcantara Launch Center)
    - china
      - [location] [website] 酒泉卫星发射中心 (Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center)
      - [location] [website] 太原卫星发射中心 (Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center)
      - [location] [website] 西昌卫星发射中心 (Xichang Satellite Launch Center)
      - [location] [website] 文昌卫星发射中心 (Wenchang Satellite Launch Center)
    - europe
      - [location] [website] Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guiana Space Center)
      - [location] [website] Colomb-Béchard Launch Site (Disused)
      - [location] [website] Hammaguir Launch Site (Disused)
      - [location] [website] San Marco Equatorial Range (Disused)
    - india
      - [location] [website] Satish Dhawan Space Centre
    - japan
      - [location] [website] 種子島宇宙センタ (Tanegashima Space Center)
      - [location] [website] 内之浦宇宙空間観測所 (Uchinoura Space Center)
    - russia
      - [location] [website] Космодром Байконур (Baikonur Cosmodrome)
      - [location] [website] Космодром Капустин Яр (Kapustin Bluff Cosmodrome)
      - [location] [website] Космодром Плесецк (Plesetsk Cosmodrome)
      - [location] [website] Космодром Свободный (Freedom Cosmodrome)
      - [location] [website] Пусковая База «Ясный» ("Yasniy" Launch Base)
    - united states
      - [location] [website] Kennedy Space Center
      - [location] [website] Vandenberg Air Force Base
      - [location] [website] Wallops Flight Facility
      - [location] [website] Corn Ranch
      - [location] [website] Kodiak Launch Complex
      - [location] [website] Mojave Spaceport
      - [location] [website] Oklahoma Spaceport
      - [location] [website] Spaceport America
    - miscellaneous
      - [location] [website] Sea Launch
6. Rotational Energy
  - flywheels
    - Bolund B, Bernhoff H, Leijon M. Flywheel energy and power storage systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol. 11 No. 2 (February 2007): 238-258
    - Designing Safer Flywheels, Steven Ashley, Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 118, No. 11 (November 1996)
    - Distributed Energy
      - A Primer of Flywheel Technology, Henry Vere, (December 2007)
      - The Spin on Flywheels, Henry Vere, (December 2007)
    - Energy Storage Solutions, Beacon Power
    - Flywheels, Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), Murdoch University
    - From Child's Toy to ISS: Flywheels Hold the Power, Office of Biological and Physical Research, NASA
7. Rolling
  - steel wheels
    - North American Eagle - Wheels
8. Rotation in Two and Three Dimensions
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Torques and Gyroscopes, From spinning tops to the precession of the equinoxes.
  - miscellaneous
    - Mars Pathfinder - Rotational and Orbital Dynamics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
9. Coriolis Force
  - general
    - Bad Coriolis
    - Coriolis Force, Algorithm, Inc.
    - Coriolis Force, Urban Legends Archive
Periodic Motion
1. Elasticity
  - click me
    - Elastic Enthusiastic, Angelo Plessas, Web Biennial 2005
  - robert hooke
    - Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, Project Guttenberg
  - video clips
    - human slingshot
      - clip 1
      - clip 2
2. Elastic Potential Energy
  - click me
    - Elastic Enthusiastic, Angelo Plessas, Web Biennial 2005
  - video clips
    - human slingshot
      - clip 1
      - clip 2
3. Simple Harmonic Oscillator
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Harmonic Motion, The music and mathematics of periodic motion.
  - inertial balance
    - Cornell's Tiny, Vibrating Paddle Oscillator Senses the Mass of a Virus, Bill Steele, Cornell University
  - video clips
    - human slingshot
      - clip 1
      - clip 2
4. Pendulum
  - no resources for this topic
5. Resonance
  - tacoma narrows bridge
    - tacomanarrowsbridge.com
    - Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Carleton University
    - Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Underwater Atmospheric Systems
    - Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project, United Infrastructure Washington (UIW) & Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
    - University of California, Davis (QuickTime newsreel footage)
  - other
    - Breaking Glass With a Human Voice, Myth Busters, Google Video
    - The Quartz Watch, Smithsonian Institution
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Resonance, Why a swaying bridge collapses with a high wind, and why a wine glass shatters with a higher octave.
Planetary Motion
1. Geocentrism
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Moving in Circles, A look at the Platonic theory of uniform circular motion.
  - aristotle
    - On the Heavens, The Internet Classics Archive, MIT
  - astrology
    - Your Daily Horoscope: is a piece of crap, Glenn Elert
  - biblical
    - Scientific Creationism, Geocentricity and the Flat Earth, Robert J Schadewald
    - The Scriptural Basis for a Geocentric Cosmology, Glenn Elert
    - The Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Andrew Dickson White
    - WWW Bible Gateway
      - What the Bible Says About the Physical Heavens
      - What the Bible Says About the Earth, Moon, Stars, Sun
  - flat earth (contemporary)
    - The Earth Is Not Moving, Marshall Hall
  - ptolemy
    - The Almagest, Claudius Ptolemy (ca. 150)
    - How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars, Michael Fowler, University of Virginia
2. Heliocentrism
  - general
    - Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Andrew Dickson White
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Kepler's Three Laws, The discovery of elliptical orbits helps describe the motion of heavenly bodies with unprecedented accuracy.
      - Harmony of the Spheres, A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries.
  - bruno
    - De l'Infinito, Universo, e Mondi (On the Infinite Universe and Worlds), De Bibliotheca - La biblioteca di Babele - Biblioteca Telematica
    - Giordano Bruno, The Galileo Project
    - The Folly of Giordano Bruno, Richard W. Pogge
    - A High Stake Gamble, Linda Zimmerman
    - Life of Giordano Bruno, the Nolan, I. Frith (1887)
  - copernicus
    - Copernican System, The Galileo Project
    - Copernicus, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
    - De Revolutionibus, Bibliotece Jagiellońskiej (Jagiellonian University)
    - Nicolaus Copernicus, Catholic Encyclopedia
    - Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
  - galileo
    - Faith Can Never Conflict with Reason: The Pope on Galileo, L'Osservatore Romano
    - Galileo, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
    - Galileo and Einstein, University of Virginia
    - Galileo and the Church, soc.religion.christian, November 1992
    - Galileo Galilei, Banned Books 387 BC to 1978 AD
    - Galileo Galilei, Catholic Encyclopedia
    - The Galileo Affair, George Sim Johnston
    - The Galileo Project, Rice University
  - kepler
    - Johannes Kepler, Galileo and Einstein
    - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World (1618-1621)
  - tycho
    - Association for Biblical Astronomy
    - Tycho Brahe, Galileo and Einstein
  - nemesis
    - Davis, Marc, Piet Hut, & Richard A. Muller. Extinction of Species by Periodic Comet Showers. Nature. 308 (19 April 1984): 715-717.
3. Universal Gravitation
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - The Apple and the Moon, The first real steps toward space travel are made as Newton discovers that gravity describes the force between any two particles in the universe.
      - The Kepler Problem, The deduction of Kepler's laws from Newton's universal law of gravitation is one of the crowning achievements of Western thought.
      - Harmony of the Spheres, A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries.
  - cavendish experiment
    - Data & Story Library (DASL)
      - Cavendish Datafile
      - Density of the Earth Story
  - gravimetry
    - Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), University of Texas Center for Space Research
  - comet halley
    - Britain's Bayeaux Tapestry, Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service), Berkshire, UK
      - Halley's comet appears; people think it is an evil omen and are terrified.
  - historical
    - Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (1687)
  - new physics
    - Eöt-Wash Group: Laboratory Tests of Gravitational Physics, University of Washington
    - Experimental Hints of Gravity in Large Extra Dimensions? Steinn Sigurdsson, 9 July 2001
    - The Pioneer Anomaly: The Data, its Meaning, and a Future Test, Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev and John D. Anderson, arXiv:gr-qc/0411077 v2 (22 November 2004).
    - Short-range gravity: Newton rules down to 0.2 millimetres. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 86, 1418-1421 (19 February 2001)
4. Orbital Mechanics I
  - general
    - Physics (lot's of crazy orbits), Bob Jenkins
    - Projectile Question (try to get it wrong), Cambridge Physics Outlet
    - Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), University of Texas Center for Space Research
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Navigating in Space, Voyages to other planets use the same laws that guide planets around the solar system.
      - Harmony of the Spheres, A last lingering look back at mechanics to see new connections between old discoveries.
  - geostationary & geosynchronous satellites
    - Clarke, Arthur C. Extra Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide Radio Coverage? Wireless World (October 1945): 305-308.
    - List of Satellites in Geostationary Orbits (telecommunications only), Eric Johnston, Satellite Signals'
    - Operational Satellites (all of them?), Satnews
  - lagrange and related orbits
    - Earth Co-orbital Asteroid 2002 AA29, Paul Wiegert, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario)
    - Lagrange Points, Karl Tate, space.com
    - Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers, Douglas L. Smith, Engineering & Science
  - satellite tracking
    - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    - The Orbits and Visual Appearance of Iridium satellites
    - Satellite Control Center
    - Satellite Prediction Software
    - Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
5. Gravitational Potential Energy II
  - general
    - The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (video on demand, login required)
      - Energy and Eccentricity, The precise orbit of a heavenly body (a planet, asteroid, or comet) is fixed by the laws of conservation of energy and angular momentum.
  - cosmic expansion
    - Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday. Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski, and Nevin N. Weinberg. arXiv:astro-ph/0302506 (2003).
    - Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution. Adam G. Riess, et al. Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 607, Part 1 (2004): 665-687.
    - Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
6. Orbital Mechanics II
  - general
    - Physics, Bob Jenkins (lot's of crazy orbits)
7. Gravity of Extended Bodies
  - dark matter
    - Seeing dark matter in the Andromeda galaxy, Vera Rubin, Physics Today, December 2006
    - Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions, Vera C. Rubin and W. Kent, Jr. Ford, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 159 (1970): 379.

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