CENCO® AP Physics Lab 2: Uniform Accelerated Motion

Calculate Rate of Acceleration

Introducing the new Cenco AP Physics lab series. Ideal for AP, B and C, I, II and advanced honors physics courses, each of the 24 experiments is aligned with the College Board AP Curriculum. The teacher guides and student manuals are authored by an experienced AP Physics teacher, so you can trust the setups to be successful in your classroom. Lead students through these hands-on labs using the outlined guided-inquiry approach. All labs come complete with instructions and materials for up to six students per lab group, the inquiry based instructions are found in the separate manuals. For your convenience, labs are packaged to allow you to purchase only what is required for each experiment.

Investigate the uniform acceleration of an object rolling down an inclined plane just as Galileo did. In this lab, students measure the time for an object to roll down an incline and then calculate its acceleration using both equations and graphs. The kit includes a four foot long channel, balls, steel and glass marbles, stopwatch, angle clamp, metric tape, tape, marker, block of wood and a meter stick. Required but not included are a support stand and a motion detector.

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