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Newton's Second Law of Motion
Students will conduct various experiments to verify Newton's Second Law.
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Newton's Second Law; Mass-Acceleration Relationship with Dynamics Carts
Students will form their own hypothesis about the relationships between force, mass, and acceleration for their dynamics cart system.
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Orbital Motion
Students will experiment with Kepler's Law of Elliptical Orbits.
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Pendulum Problems
Using this experiment, students will determine experimentally the relationship between the length (L) and the period (T) of a simple pendulum.
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Periodic Motion - The Pendulum
This lesson will introduce the concept of periodic motion and relate it to the movement of a pendulum.
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Physics Lab Rockets
This is a great lesson that not only teaches students about rockets, but also builds team ccoperation.
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Positioning the fulcrum in class one levers
Students will experiment with the various aspects of levers such as: the relationship between force and the distance of the load from the fulcrum and that work input = work output.
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Pressure in Fluids
Students will study the properties of fluids under a variety of circumstances to understand the role or pressure in their behavior, and to relate to everyday circumstances.
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Projectile Motion
As a result of this experience students will be able to recognize that projectile motion is the resultant of two independent velocities, horizontal and vertical.
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Projectile Motion
Students will measure muzzle velocity of a projectile device and predict maximum range of a projectile device at various angles.
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Projectile Motion (or You Bet Your Grade)
Students will calculate the initial velocity of a spring stretched a varying amount and fired vertically from a shooter and to predict, by calculations, where that spring will land when it is shot horizontally off of a horizontal platform.
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Reaction Time
Each student will be able to obtain his/her reaction time by making simple measurements.
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Simple Machines
Students will see a large number of everyday items in terms of simple machines i.e. levers,inclined planes, wheels and axles.
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Sitting on Nails-Boyle's Law
Students will understand the difference between force and pressure.
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So You Want to Hit a Home Run?
Students will demonstrate a relationship between the position of the baseball bat and the baseball at the point of contact to direct the ball in the appropriate hitting field.
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Sports in Physics: Measuring Velocity in a Mini-Olympics
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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Strings and Springs
By measuring several periodic phenomena, the student will make graphs and determine what the different shapes indicate.
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The Jensen Bar - What is it and How to Make One
Students will learn how to construct and use a Jensen Bar.
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Weightlessness
Students conduct various experiments dealing with the concept of weightlessness.
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What is Work?
This experiment will show work (w) equals force (f) times distance (d) and the connection between work and potential energy, kinetic energy, and heat.
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Why Use Seat Belts?
This lesson will demonstrate the important physical reasons for wearing seat belts.
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Work, Power, and Entropy
This lesson allows students to observe that entropy is a real process that must occur whenever work occurs.
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