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Physics Aviary: Circular Acceleration Lab
This lab is designed to examine the factors that affect the radial acceleration that is felt by a driver that is going around a turn. The acceleration sensor is located on the driver's side of the car. Students will be able to change the...
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Physics Aviary: Force Normal on Spinning Space Station Lab
In this lab students are going to be investigating how the parameters of a a spinning space station determine the apparent gravitational field for the people in the station. Students can change the mass of the person, the speed of the...
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Physics Aviary: Normal Logger Pro
Challenges students to get as many boats to their targets on the opposite side of a river as possible. In this version the boat will be launched perpendicular to the river and students must set the velocity to get the boat to the target...
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Physics Aviary: Rolling Distance Lab
In this lab, students will be able to change the radius and the linear speed of a wheel. They can then see how each of these variables affects the angular speed. Students can also look at the relationship between angular distance and...
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Physics Aviary: Disk Rolling Down Incline
This lab to look at how the moment of inertia affects the motion of a wheel down an incline.
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Physics Aviary: Speed and Pace of Car
This program will make sure students can figure out the speed and pace of a car using basic timing techniques.
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Physics Aviary: Timing Challenge
Students must show that they can successfully time an event using a hand held stopwatch.
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Physics Aviary: Digital Stopwatch
This program was created to mimic the behavior of a common type of digital stopwatch. This program can be used to demonstrate to a class how to use this type of stopwatch or it can be used as a stopwatch to time live events.
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Physics Aviary: Geometry Review Self Test
Students must show that they can calculate basic distances, areas and volumes for simple geometric shapes.
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Physics Aviary: Acceleration on a Planet Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the factors that affect the acceleration due to gravity on a planet. Students will be able to modify the planet and then drop an object to determine the acceleration on the planet. As the...
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Physics Aviary: Newton's Law Lab
This lab was designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the acceleration of an object on a frictionless horizontal surface. The simulation will give the students a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph....
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Physics Aviary: Newton's Law Lab With Photogates
This lab was designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the acceleration of an object on a frictionless horizontal surface. The simulation will give the students data from two photogates which they must use to find the...
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Physics Aviary: Newton's Law Lab
This lab was designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the acceleration of an object on a frictionless horizontal surface. The simulation will give the students position vs. time data and they will have to determine...
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Physics Aviary: Elastic Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the relationship between the force applied to a spring and the length of the spring. Students can work with 7 different springs.
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Physics Aviary: Force Buoyancy Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the relationships that affect the force buoyancy. Not all things they change will be factors. They can change mass of bottle, volume of bottle, fluid type and planet.
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Physics Aviary: Inclined Plane Lab
This lab was designed to have students discover the connection between the angle of incline and the acceleration of the object on the incline. Students can vary the angle and the mass of the frictionless object.
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Physics Aviary: Forces on an Incline Lab
This lab was designed to have students look at the factors that might affect the angle at which an object will start to move when it is placed on an inclined plane. The friction coefficient of the surfaces, the strength of the...
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Physics Aviary: Atwood Machine Lab
This lab was designed to have students practice the Atwood lab prior to doing it for real. Students can adjust the masses and the planet and then collect position vs. time data and velocity vs. time data.
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Physics Aviary: Classic Circular Force Lab
This lab is designed to examine the relationships between the force, mass, and radius of an object moving in a circular path and the velocity it must maintain to stay in that circular path. This lab is an idealized version of the string...
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Physics Aviary: Graphing of Motion Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to creatively play with the motion of a car and to see how the motion of the car is illustrated in graphs of position vs. time and velocity vs. time.
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Physics Aviary: Measuring Acceleration With Photogates Prelab
This prelab was designed to allow students to practice finding the acceleration of an object using two photogates. It was meant to be used prior to using the photogates in real life.
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Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Lab
This lab was designed to generate some data that students can use when learning about simple graphing motion. Students will track the motion of a row boat as it moves through a course and then they will create a graph of the data that...
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Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Lab 2
This lab was designed to generate some data that students can use when learning about two stage graphing motion. Students will track the motion of a dragster as it accelerates and then moves at a constant speed and then they will create...
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Physics Aviary: Pvc Freefall
This lab was designed to give students practice collecting and analyzing data for the PVC Freefall Lab. Masses are dropped from different heights and the speed of the object as it passes through a photogate is calculated. The...