Educational Materials

Use a calorimetric technique to determine the temperature of a Bunsen burner flame.

Determine the spring constant of a spring-powered launcher by analyzing the work done on a system.

Analyze the displacement of an object with constant velocity and an object that is accelerating.

Measure the wavelength and threshold voltage of an LED and calculate Planck’s constant.

Observe how charges affect one another and propose an explanation in terms of charge distribution.

Determine the speed of sound in air by investigating the resonance of a column of air.

Determine the landing position of a ball launched horizontally from the top of a table.

Analyze the diffraction pattern of hydrogen and determine the Rydberg constant, R.

Explore the factors that create an EMF in the interaction of a magnetic field and coil of wire.

Create maps of equipotential lines and the electric fields that exist between two charged surfaces.

Determine the internal resistance of a battery, and find an unknown resistor in a complex circuit.

Explore the diffraction patterns from different gratings, then determine the width of a single hair.

Determine the factors that affect the period and energy changes of a pendulum, then calculate g.

Determine the force on a current carrying wire in a magnetic field.

Measure the acceleration due to gravity three different ways.

Determine the coefficient of friction by measuring the minimum angle to keep a ladder from slipping.