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Physics Aviary: The Way a Mirror Works Lab (Concave)
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the radius of curvature and the location of the focal point for a mirror like situation.
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Physics Aviary: Converging Mirror Lab
This mini lab was designed to quickly find the properties of an image created by a converging mirror. You will be able to vary the shape of the mirror and the height and location of the object.
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Physics Aviary: Refraction Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the changes in angle that occurs when light changes from one medium to another. This video will help describe the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVyCECxhesU
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Physics Aviary: Lens Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the changes that occur to images formed by converging lenses based on the focal length of the lens, the height of the object and the location of the object. This video will help...
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Physics Aviary: Millikan Oil Drop Lab
This lab is designed to have students determine the charge on a series of oil drops that are suspended in an electric field. Students will measure the size of the drop in an effort to determine the force gravity on the drop. They will...
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Physics Aviary: Radiant Emissions Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the relative proportions of different wavelengths of light that are emitted by stars at different temperatures.
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Physics Aviary: Thomson's Cathode Ray Tube Lab
This lab is designed to have students look at the deflection of a cathode ray beam using magnetic fields and electric fields.
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Physics Aviary: Photoelectric Effect Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the connection between the gap between two energy levels and the frequency of the light that is given off when an electron traverses this gap.
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Physics Aviary: Energy Level Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the connection between the gap between two energy levels and the frequency of the light that is given off when an electron traverses this gap.
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Physics Aviary: Emission Spectra Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the spectra of a handful of elements when light from a glowing sample of those elements travels through a diffraction grating.
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Physics Aviary: Radiation Detection Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the amount of radiation that is detected at different distances from a radioactive source.
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Physics Aviary: Radioactive Shielding Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the factors that affect the amount of radiation that is absorbed by different shielding materials.
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Physics Aviary: Distance to Destruction Lab
This lab is designed to help students visualize distance between two synchronized sources that will lead to constructive and destructive interference.
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Physics Aviary: Wave on String Lab
This lab is designed to help students discover the connections between the linear density of a string and the tension in the string with the speed of the wave along the string. The program can be set with six identical strings or six...
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Physics Aviary: Speed of Sound Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the distance from an explosion and the time it takes the sound of the explosion to reach the observer. The temperature of the air can be changed by changing the...
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Physics Aviary: Wavelength Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the speed of a wave, the frequency of the wave and the wavelength of the wave. Students can vary wave speed and frequency. Each of these should be varied while...
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Physics Aviary: Solar System Energy Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the distance you are from a source of light and the intensity of the light your receive.
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Physics Aviary: Solar Flux Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that determine the amount of energy collected by a solar panel when the sun light is shining straight down to the ground.
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Physics Aviary: Horizontal Oscillations With Damping Lab
This lab will allow students to investigate how the motion of a real object on a spring differs from the idealized version by introducing damping to the situation.
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Physics Aviary: Guided Oscillation Lab
This lab is designed to have students calibrate an oscillating spring. They will develop a calibration equation to relate the frequency of oscillation to the mass on the spring. They will then test their equation by determining the mass...
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Physics Aviary: Reflecting Waves
This lab is designed to help students visualize the progress of a wave down a string and the way the wave pulse reflects from different boundaries.
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Physics Aviary: Interfering Waves
This lab is designed to help students visualize the combination waves that are formed when two waves overlap.
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Physics Aviary: Standing Waves
This lab is designed to help students visualize the formation of standing waves in a string. Students will also be able to see how much space is required to fit the 1st and 2nd harmonic of this standing wave.
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Physics Aviary: Resonance Tube Lab
This lab is designed to help students visualize the formation of standing waves in a wind instrument. Students will be able to view fundamental waves as well as some higher harmonics. They can work with a tube with two open ends or just...