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Landing on the Moon
Links for Educators

The basic problem

To find the thrust one must use the formulas of kinematics
and Newton's 2nd law. Here is an excellent on-line
introduction to these and many other areas of Physics. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html.


Information, photos and history of the Apollo Program

NASA history web site containing documents and photos from all the apollo missions.

Smithsonian Institute web site about the United States effort to put a man on the moon. This site gives a history of the Apollo missions. It includes many pictures, and has sound bites of communications with the crew.

Animations

This interactive problem makes use of the Physlet Animator4. This and other Physlets can be found at
webphysics.davidson.edu

Main Page for Landing on the Moon

© 2003 The NASA/UNCF Project at Northeastern Illinois University.  Last updated December 26, 2003.
Participating departments:  Chemistry    Earth Science      Mathematics   Physics