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All Experiments
All Experiments
Listed below are all the experiments for this topic.
- Accelerating kilogram masses
- Action and reaction: trolleys
- Action and reaction with a metre rule
- Adding mass to a moving system
- An example of a constant, moving force
- An introduction to simple harmonic motion
- Apparent weightlessness
- Applications of the conservation of momentum
- A see-saw weighing device
- A toy car with two motions
- Balancing a beam
- Balancing forces
- Bernoulli effect demonstration
- Bernoulli experiments with sheets of paper
- Broomstick pendulum, sinusoidal motion
- Building a reaction tester
- Calibrate a forcemeter by pulling a student
- Calibrate a forcemeter by pulling a trolley
- Capillary action
- Collisions between balls
- Collisions on an air-track
- Collisions with coins
- Collisions with electrostatic forces
- Compensating for friction
- Constant and varying forces between trucks
- CO2 puck on a glass plate
- Crunchie bones
- Datalogging S.H.M. of a mass on a spring
- Demonstrating weightlessness
- Distinguishing between velocity and acceleration
- Earthquakes in the laboratory
- Elastic collision of trolleys
- Electrical measurement of velocity of a large trolley motion
- Estimate of acceleration due to gravity using pulsed water drops
- Examples of simple harmonic motion
- Expansion cloud chamber
- Experimental test of F = mv²/R
- Experiments with magnets
- Explaining elastic and inelastic collisions
- Explosion of two trolleys
- Falling objects
- Falling through a high viscosity liquid
- Falling through air
- Falling through water
- Feeling a force of 10 N
- Finding average acceleration with a ticker-timer
- Fine beam tube
- Force of impact on a floor
- Force used to kick a football
- Frequency of a ticker-timer
- Friction between solid surfaces
- Further test of mv²/R
- Guinea and feather
- Head on collision between trolleys with magnets attached
- Home-made springs
- Independence of vertical and horizontal motions
- Inelastic collision of trolleys
- Inertia on a low friction surface
- Inertia with pendulums
- Instantaneous and average velocities
- Introducing circular motion
- Introduction to electric forces
- Introduction to forcemeters
- Introduction to oscillations
- 'Inverse explosion' with trolleys
- Investigating a mass-on-spring oscillator
- Investigating energy transfers in a pendulum
- Investigating free fall with a light gate
- Investigating momentum during collisions
- Investigating motion on a sloping surface
- Investigating Newton's second law of motion
- Investigating simple steel springs
- Investigation of a simple pendulum
- Large trolley investigations of acceleration
- Looping the loop
- Measurement of acceleration using light gates
- Measurement of g using an electronic timer
- Momentum interchanges with other objects
- More inertia experiments
- More surface tension effects
- Motion of a ball rolling down a plank
- Multiflash photographs of accelerated CO2 pucks
- Multiflash photographs of free fall
- Multiflash photographs of motion down a slope
- Multiflash photographs of projectiles
- Musical frequencies shown on a C.R.O.
- Newton's first law
- Non-uniform acceleration with a ticker-timer
- Penny on a turntable
- Pushes, pulls and muscles
- Race time measurement
- Relationships between acceleration, force and mass
- S.H.M. and circular motion
- S.H.M. on a rope
- S.H.M. with a cantilever
- Simple motion experiments with a datalogger
- Skateboard forces
- Sketching a satellite orbit and predicting its period
- Speed of a rifle pellet measured with a scaler or timer
- Stretching and compressing materials
- Stretching copper wire (qualitative)
- Stretching copper wire (quantitative)
- Stretching rubber
- Stretchy sweets
- Surface tension
- Surface tension: aniline dripping in water
- Testing projectile motion with a drawn parabola
- Test of mv²/R on a turntable
- The 'apple and arrow' experiment
- The Earth's gravitational pull
- The effects of force and mass on motion
- The game of Sym
- The inertia balance or 'wig-wag'
- The motion of the Moon around the Earth
- The speed of a rifle pellet by momentum
- The velocity of a very long pendulum
- Ticker-timers for investigating speed
- Timing a trolley on a slope
- Turning effects and a clock-spring
- Two-dimensional collisions with ball bearings
- Two dimensional momentum interchanges with pucks
- Using the ticker-timer to measure time
- Velocity-time graphs with a ticker-timer
- Vibrating tuning fork and rotating mirror
- Water jet through rings
- Whirling a rubber bung and letting go
- Whirling a rubber bung on a string
Updated 11 Apr 2006
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