FIRE UP YOUR STUDENTS! POWER UP YOUR SCIENCE LESSONS WITH ROCKET SCIENCE You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to bring rocketry to your kids. You can do it with the help of Jack & Kathy Colpas! The information on this page is from Jack & Kathy Colpas,  co-directors of the National Rocketry Competition: [...]

Conduction (or heat conduction) is the transfer of thermal energy between neighboring molecules in a substance due to differences in temperature. Thermal energy is always transferred from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature. The transfer of thermal energy continues until  each region has the same temperature. Heat Conduction takes place [...]

Unbalanced Forces cause an object to accelerate (change speed and/or direction). The three diagrams represent balanced forces and unbalanced forces acting on the ends of a wishbone. These are forces applied by the hands of the two contestants in the Wishbone Breaking Contest. Diagram 1: Balanced Forces expressed by the equation: A + B When [...]

The action/reaction pair of forces described in Newton’s Third Law of Motion ALWAYS act on different objects. One way to identify an action/reaction pair of forces is to describe them. If each description is the reverse of the other, then they are an action/reaction pair of forces. For Example: In the diagram, there are two [...]