Forces and Motion Resources

Who was Sir Isaac Newton? A brilliant physicist? A mysterious alchemist? Watch this PBS documentary shedding light on the darker side of the Guy in the (sometimes) Fancy Wig.

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us half a mile underground into a spooky abandoned mine, where astrophysicists look for something even spookier: something invisible that dictates how entire galaxies move.

Astronaut Howard Wolowitz desperately misses gravity while on a space mission in this short clip from Big Bang Theory.

Simulate projectile motion by varying projection angles, initial velocities, and even include air resistance if you wish.

Design your own planetary system, fling comets and put planets into orbit with this easy, cute game that lets you explore gravity. 

Not compatible with Google Chrome.

Read a New York Times article challenging both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking’s views of black holes, those massive collapsed stars from which not even light can escape.

Peruse a PBS article describing general relativity and its various tests regarding the bending of light, including solar eclipses, orbits of Mercury, gravitational lensing, gravitational redshift, and even time dilation.