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Robert Teese, Priscilla W. Laws, David P. Jackson, Kathleen M. Koenig, and Maxine Willis
This interactive video tutorial allows students to explore collisions and the implications of Newton's Third Law. This vignette features "person-on-the-street" interviews about forces in collisions as a function of the relative speeds and masses of cars. The viewers are shown various video segments of colliding carts, and real cars, with same and different masses and asked about forces. Over 90 percent of the participants believe that faster objects with more mass exert more force. The dynamics cart collisions with force sensor graphs show that the forces are equal in magnitude, even though the Lego passenger on the less massive cart suffers more injury.
This vignette was studied and found to have a significant effect on learning. See Research Outcomes for details.
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Published: July 24, 2014
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<a href="https://psrc.aapt.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=13323">Teese, R, P. Laws, D. Jackson, K. Koenig, and M. Willis. Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law. July 24, 2014.</a>
R. Teese, P. Laws, D. Jackson, K. Koenig, and M. Willis, Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law (2014), <https://www.compadre.org/IVV/vignettes/newtonsThirdLaw.cfm>.
Teese, R., Laws, P., Jackson, D., Koenig, K., & Willis, M. (2014, July 24). Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law. Retrieved August 10, 2026, from https://www.compadre.org/IVV/vignettes/newtonsThirdLaw.cfm
Teese, R, P. Laws, D. Jackson, K. Koenig, and M. Willis. Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law. July 24, 2014. https://www.compadre.org/IVV/vignettes/newtonsThirdLaw.cfm (accessed 10 August 2026).
Teese, Robert, Priscilla Laws, David P. Jackson, Kathleen Koenig, and Maxine Willis. Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law. 2014. 24 July 2014. 10 Aug. 2026 <https://www.compadre.org/IVV/vignettes/newtonsThirdLaw.cfm>.
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Author = "Robert Teese and Priscilla Laws and David P. Jackson and Kathleen Koenig and Maxine Willis",
Title = {Interactive Video Vignettes: Newton's Third Law},
Volume = {2026},
Number = {10 August 2026},
Month = {July 24, 2014},
Year = {2014}
}
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