ACTIVITY COLLECTION

Advanced Physics Through Inquiry 2

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The following is a complete list of lab activities from PASCO's Advanced Physics 2 Teacher Guide. You may preview and download editable student handouts or export them to your LMS or GSJ using the chalkboard icon. These activities include AP/IB-alignment details, SPARKvue and Capstone data files, and a Teacher Guide file. The materials list for each experiment is provided within its student handout.

Grade Level: Advanced Placement

Subject: Physics

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Activities

01) Hydrostatic Pressure

In this lab, students use a low-pressure sensor to measure the static pressure at different depths in a column of water and use their data to determine the mathematical relationship between static pressure and depth in a fluid.

02) Buoyant Force

In this lab, students use a high-resolution force sensor to measure the buoyant force on a metal cylinder lowered into a fluid and then determine the relationship between the buoyant force on a submerged object and a) its volume and b) the weight of the fluid displaced by the submerged object.

04) Boyle's Law

In this lab, students use a low-pressure sensor and a syringe to determine the inverse proportionality between the pressure and volume of an enclosed gas.

11) Magnetic Field Strength

In this lab, students use a 2-axis magnetic field sensor and the AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the strength of the magnetic field at the center of a current-carrying coil depends on the coil current and radius.

12) Electromagnetic Induction

In this lab, students will use an induction wand, rotary motion sensor, variable gap magnet, and magnetic field sensor to determine how the rate of change of magnetic flux through a coil affects the magnitude and direction of the average emf induced in it.

15) RC Circuits

In this lab, students will use a voltage–current sensor and an AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the potential differences across resistors and capacitors in a simple RC circuit differ when the capacitor is charging, discharging, and fully charged, and how these differences affect the current through each component in the circuit.

16) Planck's Constant

In this lab, students will use a voltage–current sensor and an AC/DC electronics laboratory to measure the turn-on voltage of various colors of LEDs and then plot the turn-on voltage versus LED frequency to determine the value of Planck’s constant.