£53.00 – £63.00
This book contains over 30 guided-inquiry-based investigations for physics students to explore and analyze key physics concepts.
Description
Physics Explorations and Projects is a collection of laboratory investigations aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Most included investigations set up a situation for students to explore and analyze with some guidance from the instructor—a guided-inquiry format that is very different from traditional laboratory experiments that provide step-by-step instructions. The activities are editable and appropriate for high school students from 9th grade to AP Physics. Sample results are included with the extensive instructor information.
Due to the nature of these activities, minimal instruction is provided for software use and data analysis. Instructor experience with Vernier sensors and software is recommended.
Included with Physics Explorations and Projects
Electronic Version
- Over 30 experiments, challenges, and project outlines
- Access to up-to-date versions of the experiments
- Essential instructor information including teaching tips, important discussion points, and sample data and graphs
- Word-processing files of the simple student instructions, so you can edit the files to match your students’ experience and need for guidance
- Suggested supplies lists
- A generous site license—buy one book and duplicate the experiments for your class
Printed Lab Book
When you buy the printed lab book you receive all of the resources listed for the electronic version, plus a printed copy of the book.
Experiments
Unit 1: Motion and Forces
- Constant Motion and Changing Motion
- Balanced Forces and Unbalanced Forces
- Gravitation on Earth
- Newton’s Second Law
- Projectile Challenge
Unit 2: Systems with External or Internal Forces
- Impulse and Momentum
- Equilibrium of Forces
- Circular Motion
- Conservation of Momentum
- Egg Protection Challenge
Unit 3: Work and Mechanical Energy
- Springs Making Things Move
- Kinetic Energy and Mass
- Work and Kinetic Energy
- Work Done by Gravity
- Energy in Collisions
- Rube Goldberg Machine
Unit 4: Electrical Energy
- Charge and Charge Models
- Coulomb’s Law, Fields, and Potentials
- Measuring Electric Current
- Conservation of Charge
- Voltage in a Circuit
- Battery Challenge
Unit 5: Electromagnetism
- Magnetic Field of a Current
- Current from a Changing Field
- Generating Electricity
- Speaker
Unit 6: Waves and Light
- Wave speed on a string
- Speed of Sound
- Interference and Diffraction
- Sound and Loudness
- Wave Communication Challenge
Unit 7: Energy Revisited
- Energy Storage in Capacitors
- Oscillations
- Heat as Energy Transfer
- Solar Cells
- Rube Goldberg Machine Revisited