The Flipping Physics Blog

Video and Milestone!

11/25/2014

Using Newton’s Second Law to solve for the Force of Friction between a Dynamics Cart and Track. Is friction really negligible? Also, publishing today’s video marks an interesting Flipping Physics. It means there are now more than 100 hours of me teaching on the internet. 17 Hours of edited Billy, Bobby and Bo videos, 79 hours of in-class lectures and 4 hours of presentations. Wow, that’s a lot of mr.p.

2014 Edublog Awards?

11/24/2014

Anybody want to nominate Flipping Physics for a 2014 Edublog Award in "Best Use of Media (Video, Podcasts, etc.)" category? Please?

University of Michigan Playmaker

11/24/2014

Did you know I am a University of Michigan Playmaker?

Newton's Second Law

11/21/2014

Newton’s Second Law! We understand it best by doing an example problem. Therefore we draw a free body diagram, sum the forces, sum the forces and find acceleration.

The Reality of our First Free Body Diagram

11/19/2014

Sometimes I make a video a certain way simply because I think it will be fun and I am curious if I can actually do it. That’s what happened with this video. I have wondered for a while if I could do a full body green screen and have it work. So that’s what I did to show The Reality of our First Free Body Diagram.

Introduction to Free Body Diagrams or Force Diagrams

11/13/2014

The first of many, many free body diagrams we will draw for physics. Seriously, we will be drawing free body diagrams for the rest of our physics careers

Weight and Mass are Not the Same!

11/10/2014

Although they are often represented as the same in the media, Weight and Mass are Not the Same! Thank you Derek Muller of Veritasium for letting my use a 10 second clip from one of your videos where you refer to your weight in kilograms. :)

Wish me luck tomorrow!

11/6/2014

Wish me luck tomorrow! I am presenting at the University of Michigan School of Education Career Awareness Conference. Scroll to the bottom and you will see that I am the last of 28 speakers! Saving the best for last?

Introduction to the Force of Gravity and Gravitational Mass

11/5/2014

Today we define Gravitational Mass and the Force of Gravity which is also called Weight.