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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Projectile Launcher
This launcher is easy to assemble, and it delivers consistent classroom results.
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Hooke’s Law University Apparatus
This apparatus verifies that that the amount by which a material body is deformed (the strain) is linearly related to the force causing the deformation (the stress).
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Hook's Law Apparatus
This sturdy Hooke's Law apparatus features a mirrored scale to eliminate parallax error.
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Eisco® Quiet Air Source
The Quiet Air Source system powers air tracks and air tables with minimal noise.
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Supertek® Economy Inertia Balance
The oscillatory platform can carry various masses and is free to oscillate in a horizontal plane under the restoring forces of two straight-blade spring supports.
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Supertek® Rotating Platform
Educators demonstrate experiments in angular momentum and rotational kinetic energy with the Rotating Platform.
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Eisco® Inertia Ball
Show the surprising effect of an impulse load on a large inertial mass.
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Ward's® Essentials Trebuchet Kit
Recreate the medieval weapon using counterweights.
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Pulley Cords
Ideal for small pulley systems, cord is available in a variety of colors, strengths, and lengths.
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Monkey Hunter Demo
This kit is used to perform the classic experiment of the 'Monkey and the Hunter'.
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Eisco® Large Plastic Dynamics Cart
With the Large Plastic Dynamics Cart, students can explore the changes in motion that occur in a dynamics cart when different amounts of net force are applied.
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Second Law of Motion Apparatus
Metal apparatus designed to demonstrate second law of motion.
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CENCO® Quantitative Centripetal Force Apparatus
The Quantitative Centripetal Force Apparatus' simple concept and robust construction guarantee reliable lab success.

