Relative Motion

In this experiment, students will use a motion sensor to discover the concepts of relative motion and frames of reference.

What's My Motion?

Students will set-up lab equipment in order to predict the motion of a car from different graphs.

William Tell Challenge

In this experiment, students use their experimental data and theoretical calculations to hit a target using a projectile launcher.

Measuring Boat Speed

A cool, calculating, speed-measuring trick

Can air pressure alone cause an egg to be pushed into a bottle?

Students will determine how and why an egg is able to go into a bottle due to changes in air pressure.

Can quarters and feathers fall at the same speed?

In a famous demonstration, Galileo supposedly dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall at the same acceleration.

Compare how different types of balls bounce and determine what are the factors that contribute to this difference

Hold a ball at a measured height above a solid surface-- one meter is a good height. Now drop the ball and notice how high it bounces.

Demonstrate the use of a lever and the impact of lever length

How does the shape and mass of an object affect its velocity when sinking through water?

The purpose of this experiment was to determine how much the hydrodynamic shape and mass of an object would affect its velocity when sinking through water.

How does the type of surface of an inclined plane affect how far and fast an object rolls?

We want to do a scientific research project to see what effect of the surface of an inclined plane has on how far an object rolls.