At the heart of PASCO’s Physics through Inquiry lab manual is a commitment to ensuring student learning through all phases of a lab activity. Questions embedded throughout the activity, sequencing and key term challenges, opportunities to predict outcomes prior to data collection and post-lab multiple choice questions all help to make the connection between lectures and labs as seamless as possible.
38 lab activities are included and all of them can be edited to suit the needs of your students or to better coordinate with your classroom lectures.
PASCO probeware means accurate and repeatable real-time data collection using PASCO sensors, interfaces and software. All of the labs can be performed using your choice of either PASCO Capstone or SPARKvue software.
Experiments
Force and Motion
- Acceleration
- Archimedes' Principle
- Centripetal Force
- Circular Motion
- Conservation of Energy
- Conservation of Momentum
- Hooke's Law
- Impulse Momentum
- Introduction to Force
- Newton's First Law
- Newton's Second Law
- Newton's Third Law
- Pendulum
- Position Match Graph
- Projectile Motion
- Relative Motion
- Simple Harmonic Motion
- Sound Intensity
- Speed and Velocity
- Static and Kinetic Friction
- Work and Energy
Light and Optics
- Inverse Square Law
- Polarization
Electricity and Magnetism
- Charge & Electric Field
- Farady's Law of Induction
- Magnetic Field Coil
- Ohm's Law
- Permanent Magnet
- RC Circuits
- Series & Parallel Circuits
- Voltage: Fruit Battery
Thermodynamics
- Absolute Zero
- Boyle's Law
- Heat of Fusion
- Heat of vaporization
- Phase Change
- Specific Heat of a Metal
- Temperature vs Heat
Nuclear
