Physics Educational Materials

Explore the diffraction patterns from different gratings, then determine the width of a single hair.

Use Bernoulli’s Principle to predict the landing spot of a stream of water leaking from a bucket.

Use a calorimetric technique to determine the temperature of a Bunsen burner flame.

Study rays refracting through various transparent media, then determine the focal length of a lens.

Create maps of equipotential lines and the electric fields that exist between two charged surfaces.

Study rays reflecting off plane and curved mirrors, determine the focal length of a curved mirror.

Observe how charges affect one another and propose an explanation in terms of charge distribution.

Determine the force on a current carrying wire in a magnetic field.

Measure the acceleration due to gravity three different ways.

Determine the speed of a toy dart by analyzing the results of different inelastic collisions.