Rube Goldberg Web Pages

Visit these web sites to learn more about Mr. Goldberg & his silly machines.

Background Information and Examples

The Official Rube Goldberg Website

Argonne National Laboratories: 2004 Contest Videos

Snopes.Com: Honda Accord/Rube Goldberg Commercial

T & C Film AG: "The Way Things Go"

Engology.Com: Goldberg Biography

Info Please: Rube Goldberg

Wikipedia: Rube Goldberg

Suite 101: Rube Goldberg Creator of the Inventions and Much More

Don Markstein'sToonopedia: Rube Goldberg

Argonne National Labratory: Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Background

The Best Rube Goldberg Links

Argonne National Laboratory: 2005 1st place winners

National Cartoonists Society: Reuben Awards

Argonne National Laboratories: Rube Goldberg Home Page

Argonne National Laboratories: Rube Goldberg Information Sources

Ask Art.Com: Examples of Rube Goldberg's Work

Argonne National Laboratories: Good Rube Goldberg Machines

Jacob Scwirtz: Rube Goldberg Machine

Purdue University: Rube Goldberg Contest at Purdue

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Don’t Forget to look at the FORCES in the machines.

Newton’s Laws of Motion

Science Master Jump Start: Newton's Three Laws

Physics Classroom: Newton's Laws

M. Casco Learning Center: Newton's Laws

Glenn Research Center: Newton's Laws of Motion

Online Journey Through the Universe: Newton's Three Laws of Motion

GRD Training Corp., PhysChem: Newton's First Law of Motion

Wikipedia: Newton's Laws of Motion

Ed Zobel's Zona Land: Isaac Newton's Second Law of Motion

Glenn Research Center: Newton's Second Law

GRD Training Corp., PhysChem: Newton's Second Law of Motion

Newton's Third Law of Motion (With student quiz)

Identifying Action and Reaction Force Pairs (Identifying force pairs, with student quiz)

Newton's Third Law of Motion (Brief description with example)

Glenn Research Center: Newton's Third Law of Motion

GRD Training Corp., PhysChem: Newton's Third Law of Motion

Utah State Office of Education: Netwon's Third Law

BBC Schools Science Clips: Forces in Motion Interactive(drag any changes to the vehicle)

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Friction

School For Champions: Resistive Force of Friction

Fear of Physics: An Experiment with Friction

GCSE: Friction Energy, Forces and Motion

GCSEScience.Com: Forces and Motion - Friction

Wikipedia: Friction

FearOfPhysics.Com: What is Friction?

BBC Schools Science Clips: Friction Interactive(drag changes in surface to the track)

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GRAVITY

Kathy Copple, Jaguar Flight Simulator Administrator:Gravity- an Alternative Theory

School for Champions: The Force of Gravity

GRD Training Corp., PhysChem: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

Wikipedia: Gravity

How Stuff Works: How does gravity work?

Journey Through Astronomy: Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

About.Com: A Begginer's Guide to Gravity: History, from the Ancients to Newton

Physics For Beginners: Gravity

Google: Web Definitions of Gravity

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Simple Machines

Inventor's Toolbox

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters

The Franklin Institute: Simple Machines

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