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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Eisco® Accessories Set for Linear Air Track
Accessories for demonstrating properties and laws of motion using linear air tracks.
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Pendulum Clamp Aluminum
Aluminum pendulum clamp with screw clamps for attaching to rods.
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Estes Wizard Model Rockets
Intermediate-level rocket with laser-cut balsa fins and streamer recovery system.
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Kinetic Theory and Specific Heat of Gases
Students determine the adiabatic coefficient of air.
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Estes Standard Rocket Engines
Get your model rockets in the air with these popular rocket engines.
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Force Mechanism Trough
With the Force Mechanism Trough, students can research acceleration and the effect of gravity on a moving body by propelling steel balls or a wood block down an aluminum trough track.
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Estes Porta Pad II Launch Systems
Portable, durable, and easy to use - the classic model rocket launch pad.
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Estes Rocket Science Starter Set
The most complete model rocketry kit on the market.
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NaRiKa® I-Gauge Collision Apparatus
An apparatus designed for collision experiments to demonstrate conservation of kinetic energy.
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Aerodynamics – Air Resistance, Drag Coefficient, and Pressure Curve
Precision manometer measures wind speed and pressure.
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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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Vernier® Independence of Motion Accessory
Demonstrate Newton's laws of motion.
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Maxwell Apparatus with Stand
Maxwell apparatus with flywheel to demonstrate momentum, friction, and oscillation.
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Kidder Gear System
Gears are so much a part of everyday life that it would be easy to overlook their impact.
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Estes Large Rocket Engines
Get your larger model rockets in the air with these popular rocket engines.
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Torsion Inertia Device
Experiment topics:
• Rotary oscillations
• Determination of moments of inertia using the oscillation method
• Moments of inertia of various geometric bodies
• Steiner's theorem