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Physics Aviary: Electrostatic Force Mini Lab With Numbers
This mini lab was designed to visually illustrate the relationships between the force of electrostatics and the factors that determine its strength.
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Physics Aviary: Space Around Charge Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the electric field and the electric potential in the region around a charged object.
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Physics Aviary: Closest Approach Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the closest distance that you can get between two particles when one of the particles is fired at the other from a certain distance at a certain speed.
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Physics Aviary: Velocity From Repulsion Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the maximum speed an object can obtain when it is electrically repelled by a like charge.
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Physics Aviary: Capacitor Properties Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the different changes that could be made to an air filled capacitor and the results that occur because of these changes. Students can vary the gap between the plates, the size of the...
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Physics Aviary: Accelerating Electrons Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the speed of an electron and the time it takes an electron to travel the distance between two charged plates.
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Physics Aviary: Ohm's Law
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a circuit with only one passive component. This version of the lab requires students to read analog meters to get the voltage...
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Physics Aviary: Simple Circuit Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a circuit with only one passive component. The batteries in this simulation can be varied from ideal batteries to batteries...
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Physics Aviary: Series Circuit Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a series circuit with up to three passive components. The batteries in this simulation can be varied from ideal batteries to...
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Physics Aviary: Parallel Circuit Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationships between voltage, resistance and current in a parallel circuit with up to three passive components. The batteries in this simulation can be varied from ideal batteries to...
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Physics Aviary: Internal Resistance of Battery
This lab is designed to have students look at the change in the terminal voltage of a battery that occurs as you draw more current from the battery.
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Physics Aviary: Power of a Light Bulb
This lab is will allow students to vary the resistance of a light bulb and the voltage difference across a light bulb. They will be able to see how these two factors affect the current through the light bulb and the power used by the...
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Physics Aviary: Resistance of a Wire
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the resistance of a wire. Students will be able to adjust the length of the wire, the diameter of the wire and the material from which the wire is constructed....
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Physics Aviary: Resistance of a Wire Challenge Lab
This lab is designed to have students work through a procedure that will allow them to determine the resistivity of a wire based on the amount of current going through different lengths of wire.
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Physics Aviary: Electrical Equivalent of Heat Lab
This lab is designed to have students look at the conversion of electrical energy into heat energy. Students will have control over the amount of water in their beaker, the voltage of the power supply and the time they add energy to the...
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Physics Aviary: Capacitor Charging Through a Resistor in Dc Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a capacitor charges. Students can change the resistance and capacitance in the circuit and monitor the current, voltage and charge on the...
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Physics Aviary: Rc Circuit Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a capacitor discharges. Students can change the resistance and capacitance in the circuit and then monitor the discharging of the capacitor....
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Physics Aviary: Magnetic Field From a Wire Lab
This is a quantitative lab that will have students look at the direction of the magnetic field from moving charges in a wire. They can also get an intuitive sense of magnetic field strength factors based on the intensity of the circles...
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Physics Aviary: Charge Moving Through Magnetic Field Lab
This lab was designed to have students figure out the formula for the force on a charge moving through a magnetic field. Then they are to see how the direction of the force is dependent on the direction of the charge's motion and the...
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Physics Aviary: Charge in Magnetic Field
This lab was designed to have students test the factors that affect the path of charged particle in a magnetic field. Students will be able to adjust the mass and charge of the particle. They will be able to change the speed of the...
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Physics Aviary: Rail Gun Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the factors that affect the acceleration of a metal bar that is carrying a current through a magnetic field.
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Physics Aviary: Magnetic Induction Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the things that can induce a current in a coil of wires. This lab is a purely quantitative lab.
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Physics Aviary: Induced Current Lab
This lab was designed to have students test the factors that determine how much current is induced in a circuit when area of the circuit is changed. This lab is a quantitive lab that supplements the lab on magnetic flux.
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Physics Aviary: Flux in Spinning Coil Lab
This lab was designed to have students map out the flux as function of time for a coil spinning in a magnetic field. From their date they also calculate the electromotive force for each data point they collect. Finally, they graph the...