NEWTON’S SECOND LAW OF MOTION
Use a laboratory cart to investigate the relationships between the force applied to an object and the mass and acceleration of the object.
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ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY
Use a position sensor to examine the relationship between the position, velocity, and acceleration of a free-falling body.
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ADDITION OF FORCE VECTORS
Use a force table to investigate the vector addition of forces.
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ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE
Use a laboratory balance, metal samples, water, and alcohol to investigate Archimedes’ Principle, and to determine the mass densities of solids and fluids.
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CENTRIPETAL FORCE
Use a centripetal force apparatus to investigate the relationships between the centripetal force on an object and the mass, velocity, and radius of revolution of the object.
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CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Use a spring-mass system to investigate the conservation of mechanical energy.
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CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
Use two colliding bodies to investigate elastic and inelastic collisions, and compare kinetic energy.
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FRICTION
Use a friction block to determine the coefficients of static friction and kinetic friction for two surfaces in contact.
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GAS LAWS
Use a syringe, masses, a thermometer, a hotplate, and a water and ice bath to investigate Boyle’s Law and Charles’s Law.
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HOOKE'S LAW
Use a spring-mass system to investigate the relationship between the force acting on a spring and the resulting change in length of the spring.
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IMAGE FORMATION USING LENSES
Use an optical bench to determine the focal length of a converging lens and to investigate the relationship between the object distance and the image distance.
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JOULE HEATING
Use a calorimeter to investigate electrical energy and thermal energy.
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MOMENTUM AND IMPULSE
Use a laboratory cart to investigate the relationship between the impulse exerted on a constant mass and the resulting change in the momentum of the mass.
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MOTION OF A PENDULUM
Use a mass on a string to investigate the relationships between the mass, length, amplitude, and period of oscillation of a pendulum.
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OHM’S LAW
Use a resistor, a power supply, a voltmeter, and an ammeter to investigate the relationships between the voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit.
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RC CIRCUITS
Use a power supply, voltmeters, capacitors, and resistors to investigate RC circuits.
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REFLECTION OF LIGHT
Use a plane mirror to investigate the relationships between object and image distances and angles of incidence and reflection.
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REFRACTION OF LIGHT
Use a refraction cell and a ray box to investigate Snell’s Law of Refraction, total internal reflection, and the critical angle of refraction.
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SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS
Use resistors, a power supply, a voltmeter, and an ammeter to investigate the effective resistances of circuits with resistors in series, in parallel, and in combinations of series and parallel components.
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SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION
Use a spring-mass system to investigate relationships between the spring constant, mass, amplitude of oscillation, and period of oscillation for a mass on a spring.
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SPECIFIC HEAT OF A METAL
Use a calorimeter to measure the specific heat of a metal. |
SPEED OF SOUND
Use a resonance chamber to measure the wavelength of a sound wave, and determine an experimental value for the speed of sound in air.
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WORK AND ENERGY USING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR
Use an electric motor and other equipment to investigate energy efficiency.
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WORK AND MECHANICAL ENERGY
Use a laboratory cart to investigate the relationship between the work done on an object and the change in kinetic energy of the object.
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KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS — BUNDLE 1
Explore the physics of forces, gravity, acceleration, work, and energy.
- Acceleration of Gravity
- Addition of Force Vectors
- Work and Energy Using an Electric Motor
- Work and Mechanical Energy
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KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS — BUNDLE 2
Explore the physics of centripetal force, momentum, impulse, collisions, and friction.
- Centripetal Force
- Conservation of Momentum
- Friction
- Momentum and Impulse
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KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS — BUNDLE 3
Explore the physics of springs, spring-mass systems, simple harmonic motion, conservation of mechanical energy, and the simple pendulum.
- Conservation of Energy
- Hooke’s Law
- Motion of a Pendulum
- Simple Harmonic Motion
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THERMODYNAMICS BUNDLE
Explore the physics of density, buoyancy, pressure, temperature, and heat.
- Archimedes’ Principle
- Gas Laws
- Joule Heating
- Specific Heat of a Metal
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ELECTRICITY BUNDLE
Explore the physics of electrical circuits, resistance, capacitance, work, and energy.
- Ohm’s Law
- RC Circuits
- Series and Parallel Circuits
- Work and Energy Using an Electric Motor
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LIGHT AND SOUND BUNDLE
Explore the physics of reflection, refraction, lenses, resonance, and propagation of waves.
- Image Formation Using Lenses
- Reflection of Light
- Refraction of Light
- Speed of Sound
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