- 1C10. Velocity
- 1C10.05 Sonic Ranger and Student Have a student walk to and from a sonic ranger while observing plots of position, velocity, and acceleration.
- 1C10.10 Vehicle On A Moving Sheet A battery powered vehicle runs at a constant speed on a moving paper to show how velocities add and subtract.
- 1C10.20 Dynamics Cart Push cart to show constant velocity.
- 1C10.25 Constant Velocity On An Airtrack Give the cart an initial velocity and see the effect of almost zero friction.
- 1C10.30 Approaching Instantaneous Velocity A ball passes through two photogates to start and stop a timer. Change spacing of gates to approach instantaneous velocity.
- 1C10.72 Velocity Table A table of velocities ranging from continental drift to the speed of light.
- 1C20. Uniform Acceleration
- 1C20.10 Penny and Feather Drop a penny and feather in a glass tube, first full of air and then evacuated.
- 1C20.11 Drop Feather on Book Drop a feather and a book simultaneously. Then place feather on top of book and drop.
- 1C20.12 Hammer and Feather on the Moon Drop a hammer and a feather simultaneously while on the moon (see Youtube video).
- 1C20.15 Drop Brass and Wood Balls Brass and wood balls are dropped simultaneously. Stand on table to get greater effect and drama.
- 1C20.16 Flat and Crumpled Dollar Bills Drop flat and wadded dollar bills simultaneously. Crumpled bill will fall faster.
- 1C20.20 Equal Time Equal Distance Drop A long string with blocks spaced at quadratic intervals is used to demonstrate uniform acceleration during free fall.
- 1C20.30 Inclined Air Track, Place risers under one end of an air track. Use photogate timers to measure the velocity at two points.
- 1C20.40 Blinky Track, Ball rolls down slightly inclined track and position is marked at equal time intervals
- 1C20.45 Slow Roller on Incline, A solid wheel turning on a small axis rolls down an incline.
- 1C30. Measuring g
- 1C30.10 Free Fall Timer A ball is timed as it drops 1m, 2m, 3m, and/or 4m.
- 1C30.11 Dropping Balls A latching relay system for turning a standard timer on and off for the dropping ball experiment.
- 1C30.35 Picket Fence A calibrated picket fence is dropped through a photogate to measure “g”.
- 1C30.41 Falling Drops A strobe illuminates water dripping at an uniform rate.
- 1C30.55 Catch a Dollar or Meter Stick Try to catch a dollar bill or catch a meter stick to measure reaction time.
Wesleyan University Dept. of Physics
