Mechanics Learning Activities
Avantor offers a complete catalogue of instruments and tools useful for demonstrating key, basic concepts of physics that are applicable to everyday life both in and out of the laboratory. Demonstrate core ideas such as acceleration down a plane, friction, potential and kinetic energy, electrical conductivity, magnetic fields, wavelengths and velocity of sound, and more. Durable educational materials are designed for heavy use with consistent levels of handling, and all models are easy to use.
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Engino® STEM Mechanics: Pulley Drives
Design and learn how pulleys can transfer force to do work.
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Engino® STEM Structures: Buildings and Bridges
Create and learn how bridges are engineered to make our life easier.
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Engino® STEM Newton's Laws and Inclined Planes
Learn about Newton's laws and design structures to experiment with potential and kinetic energy.
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Estes Altimeter
Add some tech power to your rocket experiments and take the guesswork out of altitude measurements.
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K’NEX Education Intro to Simple Machines: Gears
Teach your students about gear ratios and different gear configurations and how these concepts are used to change the amount of applied force to an object.
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K’NEX Education Intro to Simple Machines: Levers and Pulleys
Identify All Three Classes of Levers and Their Key Parts
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Intro to Engineering
Intro to Engineering welcomes young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments and building projects in five sections.
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Economy Tandem Pulleys
Tandem pulleys give students a clear picture of mechanical advantage and velocity ratio in a pulley system.
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Estes Porta Pad E Launch Systems
The Porta pad E launch system is large enough to accomodate those rockets that require larger, 24 mm E and F engines. It has a larger footprint for added stability and a larger blast deflector plate. The Porta pad E comes with the larger ³/₁₆" Maxi launch rod.
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Kidder Twin Prop Airplane STEM Build Kit
Build a dual-prop airplane to explore motion and engineering basics.
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Gravitational Balance
Simple, But Amazingly Sensitive - Measure One of the Universe's Fundamental Constants!
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Estes Preassembled Rocketry Parachutes
Lightweight, tear-resistant parachutes in a variety of sizes.
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Monkey Hunter Demo
This kit is used to perform the classic experiment of the 'Monkey and the Hunter'.