Purchase the complete set of 25 guided-inquiry, lab-based activities. Using PASPORT sensors, the experiments make it easy to incorporate electronic data collection into your curriculum.

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Binder with printed labs
PDF files for each activity
DataStudio setup files (installs all settings for DataStudio for a particular activity)
Teacher Notes and Teacher version of Student Response Sheet
(Not included in free lab downloads.)
Sample data sets
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"Explorations in Physics"

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Equipment Lists

Activity 1 -

Relative Motion-Frames of Reference

Activity 2 -

Position Versus Time

Activity 3 -

Velocity–Motorized Cart

Activity 4 -

Acceleration–Cart on an Inclined Track

Activity 5 -

Newton's First Law of Motion–No Net Force

Activity 6 -

Newton's Second Law of Motion–Acceleration

Activity 7 -

Newton's Third Law of Motion

Activity 8 -

Friction Force

Activity 9 -

Conservation of Momentum–Inelastic Collision

Activity 10 -

Conservation of Energy–GPE and KE

Activity 11 -

Impulse and Change in Momentum–Collision

Activity 12 -

Projectile Motion-Initial Speed and Time of Flight

Activity 13A -

Circular Motion–Centripetal Force (Part 1)

Activity 13B -

Circular Motion–Centripetal Force (Part 2)

Activity 13C -

Circular Motion–Centripetal Force (Part 3)

Activity 14 -

What is Voltage?

Activity 15 -

What is Current?

Activity 16 -

Ohm's Law

Activity 17 -

Electric Fields

Activity 18 -

Magnetic Fields

Activity 19 -

Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction

Activity 20 -

Sound Wave Properties

Activity 21 -

Superposition and Interference in Sound

Activity 22 -

Archimedes' Principle-Buoyant Force

Activity 23 -

Transfer of Energy–Radiation

Activity 24 -

Inverse Square Law –Light Intensity vs. Distance

Activity 25 -

Polarization