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Chapter 1 - About Science

1: Amassing a Penny's Worth - Formulate a hypothesis, accumulate data, and then develop a conclusion.

Chapter 2 - Mechanical Equilibrium

2: Smart Ropes - Explore mechanical equilibrium.
3: 24-Hour Towing Service - Find a technique for moving a car when its wheels are locked.
4: Sail With the Wind - Investigate the relationship between the components of force that propel a sailboat.
5: Weight of a sign - To resolve a force vector into horizontal and vertical components.

Chapter 3 - Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia

6: Going Nuts - Explore the concept of inertia.
7: Buckle Up! - Investigate how Newton's law of inertia is involved in collisions.

Chapter 4 - Linear Motion

8: The Physics 500 - Compute the average speed of at least three different races and to participate in at least one race.
9: The Domino Effect - Maximize the speed of falling dominoes.
10: Reaction Time - Measure your reaction time.
11: Merrily We Roll Along! - Investigate the relationship between distance and time for a ball rolling down an incline.
12: Blind As a Bat - Produce and compare graphs of different motions.
13: Bring Home the Bacon - Investigate the motion of an object as it rolls down an incline.
14: What a Drag! - Effects of Air Resistance
15: Impact Speed - Estimate the speed of a falling object as it strikes the ground.

Chapter 5 - Projectile Motion

16: Bull's Eye - Predict the landing point of a projectile
17: Anatomy of a Homer - Understand the principles of projectile motion by analyzing the physics of home runs.

Chapter 6 - Newton's Second law of Motion: Force and Acceleration

18: Getting Pushy - Investigate the relationship among mass, force, and acceleration
19: Constant Force and Changing Mass - Investigate the effect of increases in mass on an accelerating system.
20: Constant Mass and Changing Force - Investigate how increasing the applied force affects the acceleration of a system.

Chapter 7 - Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action and Reaction

21: Tension - Introduce the concept of tension in a string.
22: Tug-of-War - Investigate the tension in a string, the function of a simple pulley, and a simple "tug-of-war."

Chapter 8 - Momentum

23: Egg Toss - Investigate the effect that stopping time has on a stopping force.
24: Conserving Your Momentum - Investigate the momentum changes when two balls collide.
25: Go Cart - Investigate the momentum imparted during elastic and inelastic collisions.

Chapter 9 - Energy

26: Making the Grade - Investigate the force and the distance involved in moving an object up an incline.
27: Muscle Up! - Determine the power that can be produced by various muscles of the human body.
28: Cut Short - Illustrate the principle of conservation of energy with a pendulum.
29: Conserving Your Energy - Measure the potential and kinetic energies of a pendulum in order to see whether energy is conserved.
30: Wrap Your Energy in a Bow - Determine the energy transferred into an archer's bow.
31: How Hot Are Your Wheels? - Measure the efficiency of a toy car on an inclined track.
32: Releasing Your Potential - Find quantitative relationships among height, speed, mass, kinetic energy, and potential energy.
33: Slip-Stick - Investigate three types of friction and measure the coefficient of friction for each type.

Chapter 10 - Circular Motion

34: Going in Circles - Determine the relative magnitude and direction of acceleration of an object at different positions on a rotating platform.
35: The Flying Pig - Show that the net force for a conical pendulum is mv²/r.
36: Torque Feeler - Illustrate the qualitative differences between torque and force.

Chapter 11 - Rotational Equilibrium

37: Where's Your CG? - Locate your center of gravity.
38: Weighing an Elephant - Determine the relationship between masses and distances from the fulcrum for a balance seesaw.
39: Solitary Seesaw - Identify the forces, lever arms, and torques for a system in a rotational equilibrium.
40: Keeping in Balance - Use the principle of balanced torques to find the value of an unknown mass.

Chapter 12 - Rotational Motion

41: Rotational Derby - Observe how round objects of various shapes and masses roll down an incline and how their rotational inertias affect their rate of rotation.
42: On or Off the Mark? - Explore conservation of energy for a rolling body.

Chapter 13 - Universal Gravitation

43: Apparent Weightlessness - Observe the effects of gravity on objects in free fall.
44: Getting Eccentric - Investigate the geometry of an ellipse.
45: Tracking Mars - Employ the technique of Johannes Kepler in plotting the orbit of Mars using data acquired by Tycho Brahe four centuries ago.

Chapter 14 - Satellite Motion

46: Trial and Error - Discover Kepler's third law of planetary motion through a procedure of trial and error using a computer.

Chapter 17 - The Atomic Nature of Matter

47: Flat as a Pancake - Estimate the diameter of a BB.
48: Extra Small - Estimate the size of a molecule of oleic acid.

Chapter 18 - Solids

49: Stretch - Verify Hooke's law and determine the spring constants for a spring and a rubber band.
50: Geometric Physics - Investigate ratios of surface area to volume.

Chapter 19 - Liquids

51: Eureka! - Explore the displacement method of finding volumes of irregularly shaped objects and to compare their masses with their volumes.
52: Sink or Swim - Introduce Archimedes' principle and the principle of flotation.
53: Float a Big Stick - Investigate how objects float by analyzing forces acting on a floating stick.

Chapter 21 - Temperature, Heat, and Expansion

54: Heat Mixes: Part I - Predict the final temperature of a mixture of cups of water at different temperatures.
55: Heat Mixes: Part II - Predict the final temperature of water and nails when mixed.
56: Temperature of a Flame - Indirectly measure the temperature of a flame.
57: Antifreeze in the Summer? - Investigate what effect antifreeze (ethylene glycol) has on the cooling of a car radiator during the summer.
58: The Bridge Connection - Calculate the minimum length of the expansion joints for the Golden Gate Bridge.

Chapter 22 - Heat Transfer

59: Cooling Off - Compare the rats of cooling of objects of different colors and surface reflectances.
60: Solar Equality - Measure the sun's power output and compare it with the power output of a 100-watt lightbulb.

Chapter 23 - Change of Phase

61: Boiling is a Cooling Process - Observe water changing phase as it boils and then cools.
62: Melting Away - Measure the heat of fusion for water.
63: Getting Steamed Up - Determine the heat of vaporization for water.
64: LN is Cool Stuff - Determine the specific heat of brass and the heat of vaporization of nitrogen.
65: Work for Your Ice Cream - Measure the energy transfers occurring during the making and freezing of homemade ice cream.
66: The Drinking Bird - Investigate the operation of a toy drinking bird.

Chapter 24 - Thermodynamics

67: The Uncommon Cold - Use linear extrapolation to estimate the Celsius value of absolute zero.

Chapter 25 - Vibrations and Waves

68: Tick-Tock - Construct a pendulum with a period of one second.
69: Grandfather's Clock - Investigate how the period of a pendulum varies with its length.
70: Catch a Wave - Observe important wave properties.
71: Ripple While You Work - Observe wave phenomena in a ripple tank.

Chapter 26 - Sound

72: Mach One - Determine the speed of sound using the concept of resonance.

Chapter 27 - Light

73: Shady Business - Investigate the nature and formation of shadows.
74: Shades - Investigate the effects of polarized light.

Chapter 28 - Color

75: Flaming Out - Observe the spectra of some metal atoms.
76: Why the Sky is Blue - Investigate the mechanism that causes light to scatter.

Chapter 29 - Reflection and Refraction

77: Images - Formulate ideas about how reflected light travels to your eyes.
78: Pepper's Ghost - Explore the formation of mirror images by a plate of glass.
79: The Kaleidoscope - Apply the concept of reflection to a mirror system with multiple reflections.
80: Funland - Investigate the nature, position, and size of images formed by a concave mirror.

Chapter 30 - Lenses

81: Camera Obscura - Observe images formed by a pinhole camera and compare images formed with and without a lens.
82: Thin Lens - Explore convex and concave lenses.
83: Lensless Lens - Investigate the operation of a pinhole "lens."
84: Air Lens - Apply knowledge of lenses to a different type of lens system.
85: Bifocals - Investigate the nature, position, and size of images formed by a converging lens.
86: Where's the Point? - Measure the focal length of a diverging lens.

Chapter 31 - Diffraction and Interference

87: Rainbows Without Rain - Observe and develop a hypothesis about the phenomenon of light interference.
88: What's My Lambda? - Use the basic principles of diffraction and interference to measure the wavelength of laser light.

Chapter 32 - Electrostatics

89: Static Cling - Observe some of the effects of static electricity.
90: Sticky Electrostatics - Investigate the nature of static electricity.

Chapter 34 - Electric Current

91: Sparky, the Electrician - Study various arrangements of a battery and bulbs and the effects of those arrangements on bulb brightness.
92: Brown Out - Investigate charging and discharging a capacitor.
93: Ohm Sweet Ohm - Investigate how current varies with voltage and resistance.

Chapter 35 - Electric Circuits

94: Getting Wired - Build a model that illustrates electric current.
95: Cranking Up - Observe and compare the work done in a series circuit and the work done in a parallel circuit.
96: 3-Way Switch - Explore ways to turn a lightbulb on or off from either one of two switches.

Chapter 36 - Magnetism

97: 3D Magnetic Field - Explore the shape of magnetic fields.
98: You're Repulsive - Observe the force on an electric charge moving in a magnetic field, and the current induced in a conductor moving in a magnetic field.

Chapter 37 - Electromagnetic Induction

99: Motors and Generators - Observe the effects of electromagnetic induction.

Chapter 38

100: Particular Waves - Observe the photoelectric effect.
101: Energy of a Photon - Determine the energy of a photon emitted by an LED and estimate the value of Planck's constant.

Chapter 39

102: Nuclear Marbles - Determine the diameter of a marble by indirect measurement.
103: Half-Life - Develop an understanding of half-life and radioactive decay.

Chapter 40

104: Chain Reaction - Chain Reaction