PASCO SE-8747 Kinesthetics Cart KINESTHESIA-1 - Manual (Page 3)

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012-05787C Kinesthetics Cart
Table of Contents
Section Page
Warranty, and Equipment Return ...................................................................... ii
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
Equipment ........................................................................................................ 2
General Operation and Safety Precautions ......................................................... 3
Experiments:
Experiment 1: Newton’s First Law .............................................................. 4
Experiment 2: A Special Case of Newton’s First Law .................................. 6
Experiment 3: Newton’s Second Law: The Human Slingshot ...................... 7
Experiment 4: Newton’s Second Law: The Bucket Accelerator ................... 8
Experiment 5: Eradicating the Coin-Toss Misconception ............................. 9
Experiment 6a: Independence of the X and Y Motion of a Projectile ........... 10
Experiment 6b: Independence of the X and Y Motion of a Projectile .......... 11
Experiment 7: Motion in 2-D: Uniform Motion vs. Accelerated Motion ..... 12
Experiment 8: Newton’s First Law ............................................................. 13
Experiment 9: Center of Mass / Conservation of Momentum ...................... 14
Experiment 10: The Simple Harmonic Oscillator ........................................ 15
Experiment 11: The Human Oscilloscope ................................................... 15
Additional Experiments Possible with the Collision Attachment ....................... 16
Experiment 12: Newton’s Third Law: A Crashing Experience .................... 17
Experiment 13: Newton’s Third Law Misconception .................................. 18
Experiment 14: Another Newton’s Third Law Misconception .................... 18
Experiment 15: And another Newton’s Third Law Misconception .............. 19