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Physics Activities and Lessons Neutral Buoyancy Astronaut Training Go to the swimming pool. Add weights to your body until you can go under water and not float up or sink down. Do astronaut exercises. Electricity and Magnetism Experiments Build and analyze series and parallel DC electric circuits. Make an electromagnet. See how a magnet can produce electricity. Work with motors, magnets, resistors, light bulbs, capacitors, etc.
Roll cars down a hill. Spin a rubber stopper above your head. Slingshot a water balloon through the air. Collide cars into each other. Learn about momentum, energy, acceleration, velocity, etc.
Work with mirror and lenses to learn about reflection and refraction. Go outside and burn a hole in a piece of paper. Build a small telescope. Use the computer to design a simulation to learn about momentum (two objects colliding), projectile motion (a cannon firing a ball through the air), circular motion ( a ball spinning around on a string), etc. Be creative, use the Interactive Physics program to design real life simulations. Enjoy and learn. Use the computer to design a planetary system. Design a simulation of an orbiting rocket firing its thrusters to change orbit.
Field Trips In the fall, we will be going to Abbott Power Plant, where coal is burned to make electricity for U of I, Loomis Lab , the physics building, and Staerkel Planetarium , to learn about the stars and planets. In March, we will go the the U of I Engineering Open House, where engineering students set up demonstrations and activities. Later your pictures may be here
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