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The Boyle, Charles and Cans CoolStuff Newsletter

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Stephen Rea

In the December CoolStuff newsletter, Bridgette Sparks of Saline High School in Michigan talks about using a discovery based lab exercise for the topic of pressure.
In my classroom I ask the students to calculate the net force on the can by giving them the dimensions of the can and an estimate of the reduced pressure in the can [...]

This post was posted in The Teacher's Blog and was tagged with net force, pressure, cans
Forces in Equilibrium

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Students will place three different forces on a washer, and then arrange the forces so that the washer is in stable equilibrium in the center of the table. The forces must be visualized as vectors to understand how they can combine to produce a net force of zero.

This post was posted in Labs, Forces and was tagged with net force, forces in equilibrium, force and vectors, washers
The Flying Pig

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Chapter 10 Lab #35: Purpose: To show that the net force for a conical pendulum is mv^2/r

This post was posted in Conceptual Physics 4th Edition Lab Manual and was tagged with net force, flying pig, conical pendulum

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