Iona Physics Home Labs
These labs are keyed to chapters
Chapter
Conventional Labs (but without apparatus)
Phone based labs
1. Introduction
Curve Fitting
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Hooke's Law
Download and install Phyphox
2.Motion
Blue Box
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Flintstone
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Dilemma Zone
Accuracy of GPS
3.Acceleration
Flintstone Accelerating
**
Car, adjustable acceleration
Identifying axes,
4.2D Motion
Projectile motion
Exploring Acceleration
**
Measuring Acceleration
5. Newton's Laws
Newton's Second Law
(
Word
) (
PDF
) ** Find the force (
WORD
) (
PDF
)
Angle of repose
6.Work and Energy
Student Power Generation
How much power can you generate?
7. Momentum
Find the Mass of the cart
Inelastic Collisions
8. Rotation (Optional topic)
Centripetal Force
9. Gravity
Gravity
Angle and acceleration
10. Temp (Optional topic)
11. Thermo (Optional topic)
12. Solids, Lquids, Gasses (Optional Topic)
13. Oscillations and waves
Period of Oscillator
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Period of Pendulum
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PhET Pendulum
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Spring-Mass
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Oscilloscope
Doppler
(Freestyle)
14. Sound
Speed Sound unknown gas
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Doppler2
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Fourier
Sonar
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Beats
15. Light
Concave Mirror 1
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Concave Mirror 2
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cm ruler (slightly reduced)
Illuminance
16. Reflection and Mirrors
Experience your blind spot
Brightness as a function of distance
17.Refraction and Lenses
Index of refraction
*
Index of refraction and dispersion
18. Inerference and Diffraction
Beats
19.Charges and Forces
Coulomb's Law
20. Fields and Energy
Phyphox lab ideas
21. Current and Circuits
Measure the resistance
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PhET
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Resistance Puzzle
22. Magnetism
23. Electromagnetic Induction
24. Quantum (Optional topic)
Photoelectric Effect
25. Atomic (Optional topic)
26. Nuclear (Optional topic)
Half Life
27. Relativity (Optional topic)
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