Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring

Students use a Smart Cart to determine the physical properties of a vertical mass and spring system that affect its period of oscillation, and then use their data to support a mathematical model relating period, mass, and spring constant.

Grade Level: Advanced Placement

Subject: Physics

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Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring 17.73 KB
Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring 520.10 KB
Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring (Guided Inquiry) 325.50 KB
Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring (Student Designed) 325.23 KB
Periodic Motion: Mass and Spring 37.09 KB

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Standards Correlations

IB® Topics AP® Topics
4.1; 9.1 3.B.3.1; 3.B.3.2; 3.B.3.3; 3.B.3.4

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