Investigating the Copper Content of Brass
This lab extends knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum, spectrometry and colorimetry. Students...
Analysis of Food Dyes in Sports Drinks
Students use a colorimeter to quantify the amount of food dye in a sports drink.
DC Circuits
Students use a voltage sensor, a current sensor, and an AC/DC electronics laboratory to construct simple resistor circuits with resistors in series or...
Resonance and Standing Waves
Students use a resonance air column, tuning forks, and the principles of resonance and standing waves for a pipe with one closed end to experimentally...
Simple Pendulum
Students use a photogate and pendulum to determine the physical properties of a simple pendulum that affect its period, and then use their data to support...
Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring
Students use a Smart Cart to determine the physical properties of a vertical mass and spring system that affect its period of oscillation, and then use...
Rotational Statics
Students use the Smart Cart force sensor and tension protractors to demonstrate that the sum of the forces acting on an object in static translational...
Rotational Dynamics
Students use a rotary motion sensor to determine the mathematical relationship between torque, rotational inertia, and angular acceleration of a rotating...
Momentum and Impulse
Students use a Smart Cart and dynamics system to investigate the relationship between the change in momentum of a cart undergoing a collision and the impulse...
Conservation of Momentum
Students use two Smart Carts and a dynamics system to demonstrate that linear momentum and kinetic energy are conserved in an elastic collision, and linear...
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