The Mechanics System 1 Physics Kit comes with over 60 components, including all the carts, pulleys, hooks, masses and springs one needs to investigate core concepts in introductory mechanics.
With this kit students can explore common experiments such as The Simple Pendulum, Free Fall, Newton’s Second Law, and The Atwood Machine.
Includes an Experiment Guide covering 18 activities:
- The Pendulum: Simple Harmonic Motion
- Constant Motion of a Cart
- Constant Acceleration of a Cart
- Free Fall
- The Law of Inertia
- Newton’s Second Law
- Spring Scales: Newton’s Third Law
- Spring Scales: Relation Between Mass and Weight
- Spring in Between Two Pulleys
- The Vertical Force Table and Vector Addition
- Simple Machines: The Pulley
- Simple Machines: The Fulcrum Balance
- The Atwood Machine
- Mechanical Advantage with Multiple Pulleys
- Ramps and Inclined Planes
- Friction of Everyday Objects
- Hooke’s Law with Two Springs
- Periodic Motion of a Spring