Description

CTY Physics Kit designed for Johns Hopkins Physics Class

Laboratory experiments can be a challenge for teachers in small schools or home schools. This manual and the accompanying kit are an effort to help solve this problem. The hands-on laboratory exercises have been designed with two principle goals in mind: 1) educational challenge and 2) convenience for the teacher.

Every experiment clearly teaches a scientific principle. They cover a number of topics usually taught at the 11th or 12th grade level.

The equipment has been chosen or, in some cases, developed by the authors, to produce successful results and give the student a real learning experience. The goal was to produce a kit that is of excellent quality, affordable, and durable.

Experiments covered in the kit:
Projectile Motion
Newton’s 2nd Law
Friction
Centripetal Force
Energy
Pendulum
Speed of Sound
Lenses
Wavelength of Light
Magnetic Fields

Supplies included with the kit:
Manual
Battery, D cell
Battery holder
Card holder
Cart
Clay, modeling
Clear plastic tube with a scale, 20 cm
Clear plastic tube w/o scale, 15 cm
Concave lens, 150 mm
Convex lenses, 50 and 150 mm
Compass
Graduated cylinder, 100mL
LED light/laser
Lens holder
Lights, string
Magnets
Mass set, slotted
Nail, 3 inch
Paper clip
Spring scale, 250g
Steel sphere
Stopwatch
String
Support board
Thermometer
Tape measure, metric
Tuning fork, 1024 Hertz
Washers
White card
White cord
Wire, enameled