This lab will allow students to investigate the factors that affect the amplitude, frequency, period and/or angular frequency of a frictionless hovercraft oscillating on a horizontal surface.
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This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a pendulum oscillates. Students can change the length of the pendulum, the angle of release, and the heavenly body on which the pendulum is oscillating. Graphs can be made of frequency or period vs.
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This lab was designed to have students test the factors that determine how much current is induced in a circuit when area of the circuit is changed. This lab is a quantitive lab that supplements the lab on magnetic flux.
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This lab was designed to have students test the factors that affect the acceleration of a metal bar that is carrying a current through a magnetic field.
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This lab was designed to have students test the factors that affect the path of charged particle in a magnetic field. Students will be able to adjust the mass and charge of the particle. They will be able to change the speed of the particle and the direction of the field.
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This is a quantitative lab that will have students look at the direction of the magnetic field from moving charges in a wire. They can also get an intuitive sense of magnetic field strength factors based on the intensity of the circles drawn around the wire.
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This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a capacitor discharges. Students can change the resistance and capacitance in the circuit and then monitor the discharging of the capacitor. Graph can be made of voltage vs. time, current vs.
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This lab is designed to have students look at the conversion of electrical energy into heat energy. Students will have control over the amount of water in their beaker, the voltage of the power supply and the time they add energy to the water.
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This lab is will allow students to vary the resistance of a light bulb and the voltage difference across a light bulb. They will be able to see how these two factors affect the current through the light bulb and the power used by the light bulb.
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This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a parallel circuit with up to three passive components. The batteries in this simulation can be varied from ideal batteries to batteries containing internal resistance.
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