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Applied Maths: Relative Velocity Applets
| It's all about Frames of Reference | link | Classic 1960 Educational Film. YouTube. 30 mins | |
| Independent horizontal and vertical components | |||
| The science behind the forward pass in rugby | Nice video from dailymotion | 5 Star | |
| Some unusual phenomena | |||
| Airbus landing in a crosswind | Link | YouTube. 2 mins | |
| Canon fired vertically from a moving train | Nice video from MIT.tv | 4 Star | |
| Galileo thought experiment on the same concept | Nice 3 min video from teacherdomain.org | 3 Star | |
| Balancing speed of trains | Link | 10 second video | |
| Shooting a ball backwards from a moving truck | What directions should you throw a bottle from a moving car in order to minimise the chances of it breaking on impact? YouTube. 1 min | 5 Star | |
| Mythbusters try something similar | YouTube. 1 min | ||
| Applet showing a ball dropped from a ship's mast from the perspective of an observer on the ship, and also from the perspective of a stationary observer | 3 Star | ||
| Shortest Distance | Extremely useful for explaining why we need relative motion diagrams for calculating shortest distance | 4 Star | |
| 2004 (b) part 1 | MyYouTube. 10 mins | ||
| 2004 (b) part 2 | MyYouTube. 10 mins | ||
| Boat and River | Very useful for explaining motion of a body crossing a river | 4 Star | |
| Similar to above - this one tells you how long boat takes to cross plus time taken | 3 Star | ||
| Introduction to "Wind Appears to blow" type questions | MyYouTube. 6 mins | ||
| 2003 part a | MyYouTube. 7 mins | ||
| 2001 b | MyYouTube. 10 mins | ||
| 2004 part b | MyYouTube. 10 mins | ||
| 1992 | MyYouTube. 10 mins | ||
| 2000 no 2 | MyYouTube. 9 mins | ||
| Part 2 | MyYouTube. 8 mins | ||
| Part 3 | MyYouTube. 9 mins |