Advanced Placement / Physics

Magnetic Field Strength

Students use a 3-axis magnetic field sensor and the AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the strength of the magnetic field at the center of a...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Magnetic Fields

Students use an AC/DC electronics laboratory, a power supply, and a Magnaprobe™ wand to detect and compare the magnetic field pattern surrounding a bar...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Electric Field Mapping

Students use a DC power supply and semi-conductive paper to create dipole and parallel plate electrodes, and then use the principles of electric fields...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Interference and Diffraction

Students shine laser light through a double-slit aperture onto paper, measure the distances between the maxima of the resulting interference pattern, and...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Fluid Dynamics

Students determine the relationship between the velocity of a water stream as it leaves the nozzle at the bottom of a water column and the height of the...

Advanced Placement / Physics

RC Circuits

Students use a voltage sensor and a current sensor with the AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the potential differences across the resistors...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Capacitor Fundamentals

Students use a digital capacitance meter and construct capacitors from aluminum foil and paper to determine how physical properties of a parallel-plate...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Electromagnetic Induction

Students use voltage sensor to measure the maximum emf induced in a coil as a permanent magnet is dropped through it. Students vary the number of loops...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Buoyant Force

Students use the Smart Cart force sensor to measure the buoyant force on a metal cylinder lowered into a fluid and then determine the relationship between...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Hydrostatic Pressure

Students use a pressure sensor to measure the static pressure at different depths in a column of water and use their data to determine the mathematical...

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