Advanced Placement / Physics

Spherical Mirror Reflection

Students use an optics light source, optics track, and half screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by a...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Snell's Law

Students use an optics ray table to measure the incident and refraction angles of a light ray traveling from air into a material with unknown index of...

Advanced Placement / Biology

Photosynthesis

Students use a carbon dioxide gas sensor to test the effect of the color of light on the rate of photosynthesis.

Advanced Placement / Physics

Boyle's Law

Students use a pressure sensor and a syringe to determine the inverse proportionality between the pressure and volume of an enclosed gas.

Advanced Placement / Physics

Focal Length of a Converging Lens

Students use an optics light source, optics track, and viewing screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by...

Advanced Placement / Biology

Cellular Respiration

Students use a carbon dioxide gas sensor to investigate the rate of cellular respiration of germinating seeds.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Homeostasis

Students use multiple temperature probes simultaneously to investigate the body’s ability to maintain homeostasis when subjected to a cold stimulus....

Advanced Placement / Biology

Cell Size

Students use a conductivity sensor to measure the effect of cell size on solute diffusion rate using agarose-salt cubes.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Plasmolysis

Students use a conductivity sensor to explain the results of different concentrations of salt water on plant tissue before they design an experiment to...

Advanced Placement / Biology

Osmosis

Students use a colorimeter to determine which extracellular fluid is hypertonic to a model cell and which solution is hypotonic.

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