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Projectile Motion Hoop Challenge

Introductory Physics Labs (algebra-based)

The table below is organized sequentially by semester. Each lab is 60 – 90 minutes in length, each workbook assignment, from Knight’s Student Workbook for College Physics, is approximately 60 minutes in length.

* indicates 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.

 

Lab

Workbook Assignment

Week 1

Pre FCI and Lawson test, no lab

pdf

Measuring Motion     

pdf

doc

pdf

*Free Fall

pdf

doc

pdf

**Projectile Motion Hoop Challenge         

pdf

docx

pdf

**Force Vectors

pdf

docx

pdf

*Inertia

pdf

docx

pdf

Friction – “Fast Lane” Subway slide

pdf

docx

pdf

*Friction with Connected Objects

pdf

docx

pdf

**Bucket Swing

pdf      

docx

pdf

*Center of Gravity

pdf

docx

pdf

**Elasticity of Plastic Spoons

pdf

docx

pdf

**Fun w/ momentum!

pdf      

docx

pdf

**Solar Ovens

pdf

docx

pdf

*How Powerful are you?

pdf      

docx

pdf

*Chemical to Thermal Energy

pdf

doc

pdf

*Density and Buoyancy           

pdf

doc

pdf

**How Music is Made           

pdf

doc

Week 1 Phys II, not ready for workbook problems

*Simple Harmonic Motion           

pdf

docx

pdf

Traveling Waves

Needs work

 

pdf

**Standing Waves

pdf

docx

pdf

*Thickness of a human hair     

pdf

docx

pdf

*Reflection and Plane Mirrors

pdf

docx

pdf

*Spherical “thin” Lenses

pdf

docx

pdf

*Spherical Mirrors

pdf

docx

pdf

**Fun with Tape! (120 minutes)

pdf

docx

None

Electric Field Hockey

pdf

docx

pdf

**Measuring Potentials of the Heart

pdf

docx

pdf

DC Circuits

pdf

docx

pdf

 

 

 

pdf

**Magnets, motors and radiation

pdf

docx

pdf

 

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