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Weightless Wonder — Reduced-Gravity Flights

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C-9 jet going into a parabolic maneuver

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 9-12

Subject

History, Mathematics, Physical Science, Calculus, Physics

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities, Websites

Math and Science @ Work presents a free-response question for advanced high school physics. Students will learn about the parabolic flights of NASA’s C-9 jet, the Weightless Wonder, as they use equations of motion to derive a solution to a real-life problem.

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