Physics Experiments

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Mechanics

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• Air Resistance - Teacher Notes
• An Inquiry into Forces - Teacher Notes
• Atwood's Machine - Teacher Notes
• Ball Toss with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Bungee Jump Accelerations - Teacher Notes
• Circular Motion and Centripetal Force with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Coefficient of Kinetic Friction with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Composition and Resolution of Forces - Teacher Notes
• Conservation of Angular Momentum - Teacher Notes
• Determining g on an Incline with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion - Teacher Notes
• Energy of a Tossed Ball for Computers - Teacher Notes
• Energy of a Tossed Ball for Calculators Version 1 - Teacher Notes
• Energy of a Tossed Ball for Calculators Version 2 - Teacher Notes
• Equilibrium of Forces - Teacher Notes
• Force Gravitational/Inertial - Teacher Notes
• Forces, Torques and Equilibrium
• Graph Matching with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Graph Matching with Palms - Teacher Notes
• Impulse and Momentum - Teacher Notes
• Modern Galileo with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Momentum: A Crash Lesson with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Momentum, Energy and Collisions with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Momentum, Energy and Collisions with computers - Teacher Notes
• Momentum, Energy and Collisions with Handhelds - Teacher Notes
• Newton's Second Law with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Newton's Third Law with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Picket Fence Freefall with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Picket Fence Free Fall with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Projectile Motion with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Projectile Motion with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Pendulum Periods with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Pendulum Periods with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Simple Harmonic Motion - Teacher Notes
• Static and Kinetic Friction with Computers - Teacher Notes
• The Inclined Plane - Teacher Notes
• Torque and First Class Levers- Teacher Notes
• Wave Motion in a Vibrating String - Teacher Notes
• Work and Energy - Teacher Notes

Nuclear/Atomic Physics

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• Cloud Chamber - Teacher notes
• Half-Life Measurement - Teacher notes
• Half-Life Simulation (M&Ms) - Teacher notes
• Half-Life Simulation (pennies) - Teacher notes
• Lifetime Measurements with Calculators - Teacher notes
• Nuclear Radiation and Shielding - Teacher notes
• The Chart of Nuclides -   Teacher Notes

Sound

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• Speed of Sound with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Speed of Sound with Calculators - Teacher Notes

Optics

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• A Study of Lenses - Teacher Notes
• Light, Brightness and Distance with handhelds- Teacher Notes
• Light, Brightness and Distance with computers - Teacher Notes
• Light, Diffraction and Interference - Teacher Notes
• Light, Quanta and the Photoelectric Effect - Teacher Notes
• Polarization of Light - Teacher Notes
• Solar Cell Photocurrent/Angle of Incidence of Light Source - Teacher Notes
• Interference in Thin Film  -   Teacher Notes
• Motion of the Planets - Teacher Notes

Magnetism and Electricity

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• Capacitors - Teacher Notes
• Electric Energy with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Electrical Energy with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Electrical Energy with Handhelds- Teacher Notes
• Magnetic Field in a Coil - Teacher Notes
• Magnetic Field in a Slinky - Teacher Notes
• Ohm's Law with Calculators - Teacher Notes
• Ohm's Law with Computers - Teacher Notes
• Ohm's Law with Fuel Cell - Teacher Notes
• Resistors Capacitor Circuits - Teacher Notes
• Series and Paralell Circuits - Teacher Notes
• Series and Paralell Circuits Using Fuel Cell - Teacher Notes
• The Transformer - Teacher Notes