"Curriculum"

Draw connections between the displacement method for determining density and the bouyant force.

Determine the time constant of an RC circuit, and calculate the resistance of an unknown resistor.

Determine the landing position of a ball launched horizontally from the top of a table.

Determine the speed of sound in air by investigating the resonance of a column of air.

Explore the factors affecting the electrical resistance of conductive modeling dough.

Determine the factors that affect the period and energy changes of a pendulum, then calculate g.

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

Determine the spring constant of a spring using two methods.

Explore precision and error in measurement.

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

Measure the static and kinetic friction between two surfaces using direct and indirect methods.

Explore charging by induction and discover how a Leyden jar stores electric charges.

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

Measure the wavelength and threshold voltage of an LED and calculate Planck’s constant.

Analyze the displacement of an object with constant velocity and an object that is accelerating.

Determine the internal resistance of a battery, and find an unknown resistor in a complex circuit.