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Showing 8 experiments that use the Four Scale Meter Stick.

Advanced Placement / Physics

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...

Advanced Placement / Physics

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...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Students use a Smart Cart and dynamics system to explore how the kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, and total mechanical energy of a cart/earth...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Two-Dimensional Motion: Projectiles

Students use a photogate and mini launcher to measure the variables that affect the two-dimensional motion of a projectile launched horizontally, and then...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Graphing Motion

Students measure the position and velocity of a cart on a track to determine the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration versus time...

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...

High School / Chemistry

What is a Wave

Students model the relationship between wave frequency and wavelength by observing waves with different amounts of energy.

High School / Chemistry

Significant Figures

In this lab, students complete a series of measurement activities to practice determining the correct number of significant figures.

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