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Specific Heat - Wireless

In this activity you will use a temperature sensor to measure the temperature change of a volume of cool water when a hot piece of metal is placed in it....

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Centripetal Force on a Pendulum - Wireless

The purpose of this activity is to experimentally measure the centripetal force acting on a pendulum...

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Projectile Motion - Wireless

This experiment is in four parts: 1. Muzzle Velocity, Time of Flight, and Range 2. Launching at Different Angles on a Plane 3. Predicting the Range of...

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Ratio of Specific Heats - Wireless

A cylinder is filled with air and a Wireless Pressure Sensor is attached. The piston is plucked by hand and allowed to oscillate. The oscillating pressure...

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Ideal Gas Law - Wireless

The temperature, volume, and pressure of a gas are measured simultaneously to show that they change according to the Ideal Gas Law. Special cases of constant...

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Rotational Inertia - Wireless

The rotational inertia of an object is a measure of how hard it is to rotate the object. The purpose of this experiment is to find the rotational inertia...

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Electrical Equivalent of Heat - Wireless

The purpose of this experiment is to determine the amount of electrical energy that is equivalent...

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Physical Pendulum Period - Wireless

This experiment has two parts: 1. Period of a Thin Rod explores the dependence of the period of a physical pendulum (a uniform bar) on the distance between...

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Ballistic Pendulum - Wireless

A ballistic pendulum is used to determine the muzzle velocity of a ball shot out of a Projectile Launcher. The laws of conservation of momentum and conservation...

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Magnetic Fields of Coils - Wireless

The magnetic fields of various coils are plotted versus position as the Magnetic Field Sensor is passed through the coils, guided by a track. The position...

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