Physics Stuff

Using resistors, a power supply, and a digital multimeter, students investigate and discover the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance. They will take several data points, graph their data and formulate an equation based on the trendline from their data. At the end, students will use their new equation to solve basic Ohm's Law problems.

Students investigate which properties of a pendulum affect the period of the pendulum the most - mass, length, and drop height. After finishing data collection, students make an argument about which quantity affects the pendulum the most and why.

This is a simple lab that allows students to discover the acceleration due to gravity by dropping a ping pong ball and a tennis ball. Students hypothesize which ball will accelerate faster due to gravity and then using the acceleration displacement equation solve for the acceleration in both cases. At the end, students make an argument using their data to describe whether their hypothesis was correct.

Students investigate the physics of a toy popper by analyzing the elastic potential energy. Students will measure the height of the toy popper and then use conservation of energy to determine the spring constant of the toy popper. Students then argue about what determines the height the toy popper reaches based on its design.