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Physics Aviary: Flux in Spinning Coil With Graphs Lab
This lab was designed to have students look at the graphs for flux vs. time and electromotive force vs. time for a coil spinning in a magnetic field. Students will be able to vary the size of the coil, the rate at which the coil spins...
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Physics Aviary: Rc in Ac Lab
This lab was designed to help students understand the difference between circuits powered by DC and circuits powered by AC. Students can see that simple changes in frequency lead to changes in the potential difference across the...
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Physics Aviary: Rl in Ac Lab
This lab was designed to help students understand the difference between circuits powered by DC and circuits powered by AC. Students can see that simple changes in frequency lead to changes in the potential difference across the...
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Physics Aviary: Pendulum Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a pendulum oscillates. Students can change the length of the pendulum, the angle of release, and the heavenly body on which the pendulum is...
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Physics Aviary: Horizontal Oscillation Lab
This lab will allow students to investigate the factors that affect the amplitude, frequency, period and/or angular frequency of a frictionless hovercraft oscillating on a horizontal surface.
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Physics Aviary: Oscillation Lab (Graph Is Below Simulation Window)
This lab will allow students to investigate the relationships that govern the frequency of oscillation for a mass on a spring.
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Physics Aviary: Length and Angle of 3d Vector
Test yourself on finding the length of a vector and the angle the vector makes with respect to the XZ plane.
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Physics Aviary: Guided Specific Heat Lab
This lab is designed to have students learn how to calculate the specific heat of a liquid based on the temperature changes that occur when hot water is added to the liquid.
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Physics Aviary: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Lab
This lab is designed to have students look at a greatly simplified version of James Joule's experiment showing the conversion of mechanical energy to heat.
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Physics Aviary: Maxwell Distribution Lab
This lab is designed to have students examine distribution of speeds for gases in a box.
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Physics Aviary: Gas Lab
This lab is designed to have students examine the different relationships that exist for gases in a box.
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Physics Aviary: Heat Transfer Lab
This lab is designed to have students examine the different factors that affect the rate of heat transfer through a barrier between two gases.
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Physics Aviary: Any Given Sunday Lab
This lab is designed to be used by an entire class to simulate 50 football seasons. Students will track the number of wins and then we will make a distribution graph to see the frequency of the different outcomes.
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Physics Aviary: Ideal Engine Lab
This lab is designed to have students examine how the temperature of the heat source and the temperature of the coolant effect the efficiency of the ideal engine.
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Physics Aviary: Coulomb's Law Lab
This mini-lab allows students to discover the relationships that create Coulomb's Law.
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Physics Aviary: Electrostatic Force Mini Lab *
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: Suspension Bridge Lab
This lab is designed to have students look at how the forces needed to support a suspension bridge change as the object moves across the bridge. This lab is intended to be used as a companion to a live lab with similar equipment.
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Physics Aviary: Moment of Inertia of Pulley
This lab is designed to have students learn how the size, mass and mass distribution of a pulley influences the rate at which a mass attached to the pulley will accelerate. The pulley is frictionless and the string's mass is negligible.
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Physics Aviary: Fluids in U Tube Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the equilibrium location of a piston that is separating two fluids in a u-tube.
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Physics Aviary: Pascal's Principle Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to see how larger masses can be balanced or even lifted by smaller masses by designing your system correctly.
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Physics Aviary: Flow Rate Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to discover the formula that links flow rate to velocity from a faucet and the radius of the faucet.
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Physics Aviary: Flow Rate From Beverage Dispenser Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to discover the formula that links flow rate to properties of the faucet, fluid, planet and height.
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Physics Aviary: Siphon Lab
This environment has been created to allow students to look at how some different factors affect the flow rate and exit velocity for water leaving a siphon.
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Physics Aviary: Thermal Speed Lab
This lab is designed to have students learn the factors affecting the RMS velocity for a sample of gas. The student will be able to set the temperature of the environment and the mass of the particles.