Air track, with analog and digital multimeter, flow unit and 2 photoelectric sensors.

Function

Intended for experimental study, physics laboratory, and performance of physics experiments on: Physics. Kinematics. Frame of reference, position, motion and trajectory. What is meant by a moving body. The trajectory and displacement. The difference between displacement and distance traveled. The Cartesian reference system in the plane, orthogonal Cartesian plane. The quadrants. The coordinates of any point in the plane containing the orthogonal Cartesian system. Differences between scalar quantity and vector quantity. Uniform rectilinear motion, URM, air track. The table and the S versus t graph. Determining average velocity. Determining the equation of motion of URM. Verifying the characteristics of URM. Uniformly varied rectilinear motion, UVRM, air track. Building the table and the S versus t graph. The trend line of the graph points, presented by the spreadsheet. The function that indicates how the quantity S behaves in relation to t in UVRM. The S versus t graph and the slope of the tangent to the graph. Calculating, tabulating, and constructing the v versus t graph of a UVRM. Torricelli's equation, time-independent equation for UVRM. Dynamics. The fundamental law of dynamics, Newton's second law. The relationship between acceleration and force. Conservation of Energy. Coefficient of restitution, momentum and kinetic energy in an inelastic collision. Data acquisition, before and after the inelastic collision. Data acquisition of car 1, before the collision, sensor S0. What is meant by system. Mechanical collisions, momentum and kinetic energy. The coefficient of restitution between two colliding bodies. The momentum before and after an inelastic collision. The kinetic energy before and after the inelastic collision. Coefficient of restitution, momentum and kinetic energy in an elastic collision. Data acquisition, before and after the elastic collision. The momentum before and after a perfectly elastic collision. The kinetic energy before and after the perfectly elastic collision. Wave motion. Determination of the elastic constant of a mass-spring system, SHM. Measuring periods and calculating the average value. Determining the spring constant by the dynamic process, etc.