Introductory Physics Labs

CO/WY AAPT presentation

Air Force Academy presentation

Below are both pdf and word versions of my labs. I’ve only posted the labs that I’m satisfied with and then I put a * next to the labs that were very successful and a ** by labs that “made it home to the dinner table” or rather shown to their friends outside of class.

Each lab is 60 – 90 minutes in length

Measuring Motion pdf doc

*Free Fall pdf doc

**Projectile Motion pdf docx

**Force Vectors pdf docx

*Inertia pdf docx

Friction – “Fast Lane” Subway slide pdf docx

*Friction with Connected Objects pdf docx

**Bucket Swing pdf docx

*Center of Gravity pdf docx

**Elasticity of Plastic Spoons pdf docx

**Fun w/ momentum! pdf docx

**Solar Ovens pdf docx

*How Powerful are you? pdf docx

*Chemical to Thermal Energy pdf doc

*Density and Buoyancy pdf doc

**How Music is Made pdf doc

*Simple Harmonic Motion pdf docx

**Standing Waves pdf docx

*Thickness of a human hair pdf docx

*Reflection and Plane Mirrors pdf docx

*Spherical “thin” Lenses pdf docx

*Spherical Mirrors pdf docx

**Fun with Tape! (120 minutes) pdf docx

Electric Field Hockey pdf docx

**Measuring Potentials of the Heart pdf docx

DC Circuits pdf docx

**Magnets, motors and radiation pdf docx