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Exploring a Rotating System
Students construct an experimental system composed of a horizontal meter stick mounted at its center on a pivot that is rotating from the torque...
Red Light/Green Light
Students create Blockly code that controls a wireless light source and Smart cart Motor based on inputs from a light sensor and a position sensor....
Exploring Torque
Students explore the concepts associated with torque and balance using the meter stick torque set. They develop the mathematical relationship...
Exploring Physical Pendulums
Students use a meter stick as a physical pendulum and explore the factors that affect the period and the mathematical properties of the physical...
Weight Drop Launch
Students will investigate how a weight drop launch style of roller coaster works using a //code.Node Cart. Additionally, they will create a Blockly...
Heat of Fusion of Ice
This lab investigates the concept of conservation of energy as applied to calorimetry: In a closed system, the sum ofall materials that gain...
Calorimetry
This experiment teaches the concept of conservation of energy: In an isolated system, the sum of the heat that flowsout of the objects that cool...
Speed and Velocity
Students will investigate speed and velocity using the //code.Node Cart. Using the data they collect, they will create a two Blockly challenge...
Crash Test: Velocity and Inertia
Students will explore Newton's laws of motion using the //code.Node Cart to measure velocity and observing what occurs when it comes to a sudden...
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