"Ward's Phenomena Lab Activities"

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

Use Bernoulli’s Principle to predict the landing spot of a stream of water leaking from a bucket.

Explore precision and error in measurement.

Measure the acceleration due to gravity three different ways.

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.

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

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

Study rays refracting through various transparent media, then determine the focal length of a lens.

Determine the speed of a toy dart by analyzing the results of different inelastic collisions.