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Millisecond Timer
Item #52-4000
$169.00
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Accurate time measurements from milliseconds to minutes
Make precise time measurement simple and reliable in the student lab. The Millisecond Timer is an easy-to-use digital timer designed to measure time intervals from milliseconds up to 9999 seconds, making it suitable for everything from fast collisions to long-duration motion studies. With a clear 4-digit LED display and straightforward inputs, students can focus on the physics—not the electronics.
Built for flexibility, the timer works with a wide range of sensors and triggering methods, allowing it to drop seamlessly into mechanics, motion, and waves experiments across multiple grade levels.
Why Teachers Love the Millisecond Timer
- Easy, student-friendly operation: Simple connections and clear LED readout reduce setup time and student error.
- Highly versatile: Works across many experiments—from short, fast events to long-duration timing.
- Reliable triggering: Start and stop inputs respond to any change in circuit state, making timing consistent and repeatable.
- Auto-ranging display: Millisecond resolution for short times, then automatically adjusts for longer intervals up to 9999 s.
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What You Can Teach with the Millisecond Timer
Use in middle school through high school and introductory college physics to teach:
- Velocity and acceleration: Measure time intervals for carts, balls, or gliders moving between points.
- Free-fall and projectile motion: Time drops and launches to calculate acceleration due to gravity. Pair with the Arbor Scientific g by Free Fall Apparatus.
- Collisions and impulse: Capture short-duration interactions in momentum experiments.
- Periodic motion: Measure oscillation periods for pendulums, springs, and rotating systems.
- Wave speed: Time pulses or disturbances traveling through strings or springs.
How It Works
- Simple start/stop triggering: Three input sockets provide START and STOP signals that respond to any change in circuit state.
- Flexible gate modes: A single switch selects either Gate 1 start/stop or Gate 1 start, Gate 2 stop, depending on the experiment setup.
- Wide timing range: Measures with millisecond resolution up to 10 seconds, then automatically reduces resolution for longer times up to 9999 s.
- Ready out of the box: Includes a 5 V DC power supply and full instructions.
The Millisecond Timer is a dependable classroom standard for timing experiments—giving students accurate data and teachers a flexible tool that works across an entire physics course.
Products being sold are not toys. They are for Educational / Laboratory use only. They are not for use by children 12 and under.
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