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Physics Aviary: Mc Culley's Trig Thing
This program gives students a visual representation of sine and cosine at different angles. A unit vector will cycle through different angles and students can see the changes that take place to the horizontal part and the vertical part...
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Physics Aviary: Circular Acceleration
This program gives students a visual representation of why an object moving in a circle at constant speed is accelerating. This program will guide students through a method of calculating the circular acceleration based on the change in...
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Physics Aviary: Visualizing Forces on an Incline
This program gives students a visual representation of the forces on a block that is on an inclined plane. The students can watch how force gravity, force normal, and force friction change as the angle of the plane changes. Students can...
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Physics Aviary: Visualizing Sine Curves
This program gives students a visual representation of sine curves. The hope is that students can relate properties of the ferris wheel to properties of the sine curve. The height of the center of the ferris wheel is their vertical...
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Physics Aviary: Visualizing a Wave as a Line of Oscillating Objects
This program gives students a visual representation of a wave as a line of masses that are oscillating out of step. Each oscillating mass will affect the oscillation of the wave next to it.
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Physics Aviary: Visualizing the Wave Equation
This program gives students a visual representation of the wave equation. This will let students see how all the different variables come together to create a wave that propagates through space and time.
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Physics Aviary: Adding Sine Curves
This program gives students a way to combine waves together to see what properties the new wave will possess. It is helpful in looking at constructive and destructive interference. It can also illustrate beats and carrier waves.
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Physics Aviary: Color Mixing Activity
This program gives students a chance to get a feel for the different colors that can be made by mixing red, green and blue light in different proportions. This activity is meant to be a lead in to students using the color mixing game...
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Physics Aviary: Logger
Challenges students to get as many boats to their targets on the opposite side of a river as possible. Gives students a hands on experience with 2d relative velocity.
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Physics Aviary: Drone Delivery Challenge
Land as many objects as close to the target as possible. More points will be earned if the height is high and the speed is fast.
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Physics Aviary: Triangle Math
Challenges students figure out ten unknown values for right triangles without getting any problems wrong.
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Physics Aviary: Engine Challenge
Checks that students understand the steps involved in an internal combustion engine.
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Physics Aviary: Half Life Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the amount of radiation that is detected at different times from a radioactive source with a very short half-life. This video will help with the lab:...
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Physics Aviary: Help With Graph Types
This program was designed to make sure students can properly curve fit the different types of data they will run across in class.
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Physics Aviary: Quick Graph 3.0
This program was designed as a quick graphing program that students could use on a computer, tablet or smart phone when a more complex graphing program is not available. This program will let students plot up to 10 data points and then...
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Physics Aviary: Quick Graphing/linearizing Program
This program was designed as a quick graphing program that students could use on a computer, tablet or smart phone when a more complex graphing program is not available. This program will let students plot up to 10 data points and then...
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Physics Aviary: Visualizing 3 D Position Vectors
This program's sole purpose is help students visualize position vectors in three dimensions. Students will be able to move a ball around in a room and they will be shown the position vector for the location of the ball relative to the...
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Physics Aviary: Mc Culley's Html 5 Physics Resources
This program will allow students to quickly break a vector into components or turn the vector components into resultant vector.
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Physics Aviary: Acceleration Challenge
Challenges students to get as many vehicle accelerations as possible in a 3 minute time frame. Students must push on the gas to accelerate their vehicle and then use the change in velocity and the change in time to get the acceleration...
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Physics Aviary: Beats Lab
This lab is designed to help students visualize the formation of beats and the relationship between the number of beats per second and the beat frequency heard by the observer.
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Physics Aviary: Doppler Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the changes to wavelength and frequency that occur when the source of the waves is in motion. This video describes the lab: https://youtu.be/eCceYPBR6f4
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Physics Aviary: Diffraction Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the factors affecting the angle at which constructive interference occurs for waves passing through a two slit diffraction grating. This video helps explain the problem:...
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Physics Aviary: Em Spectrum Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the factors affecting the location of different colors formed by diffraction grating.
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Physics Aviary: The Way a Mirror Works Lab (Plane)
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the angle of the boards and the angle the puck comes off the boards.