Advanced Placement / Physics

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...

Advanced Placement / Physics

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...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Work and Kinetic Energy

Students use a Smart Cart and dynamics system to investigate the relationship between the change in kinetic energy of an object experiencing a non-zero...

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

Coefficients of Friction

Students use a Smart Cart to determine the static and kinetic friction coefficients between two contacting surfaces.

Advanced Placement / Physics

Atwood's Machine

Students use a photogate and pulley system to determine the mathematical relationship between the acceleration of an Atwood’s machine, the difference...

Advanced Placement / Physics

Newton's Second Law

Students use a Smart Cart to determine the relationship between a system’s mass, acceleration, and the net force being applied to the system.

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

Planck's Constant

Students use a voltage 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...

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