Order
TSE8300
US $79
Author:
Roger F. Larson
Probe-based Physics helps your students investigate the physical world, providing easy-to-use activities, quick setup, and appropriate challenge for the high school and college level. Includes both student and teacher sections with sample data and calculations, as well as a performance-based assessment. 40 activities. Grade Levels: 10-12, College.
Table
of Contents:
- The Fastest Hand in the West
- A Sonar Surveyor
- A Digital Trundle Wheel
- Speed Trap
- Terminal Velocity of Balloons
- Freely Falling Physics Books
- Hang Time
- Soapbox Derby (2 activities)
- Pendulum Parameters
- Simple Harmonic Motion and the Simple Pendulum
- Measuring 'g' 2, 3, or 4 Sig Figs?
- Muzzle Velocity
- Feeling Forces
- Figuring Newtons
- Probing Newton's 2nd Law
- The Automatic Atwood Machine
- Force Vectors
- Friction, the Omnipresent Force
- The Coefficient of Rolling Friction
- Sliders
- Analyzing Magnetic Fields
- The Bungee Jump
- Rubber Band Energy
- Weighing a Pendulum Bob
- Arm Curl Workout
- Head On Collisions (2 activities)
- Conservation of Momentum
- Explosions Explained!
- Hot Sand?
- Microwave Oven Efficiency
- Light Bulb Brightness
- Solar Power
- Resistors (2 activities)
- Connecting Batteries (2 activities)
- Monitoring Motor Efficiency
- Capacitors: Exponential Decay
