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Download Wireless Accelerometer Software HERE

Installation and Use Help w/ Wireless Accelerometers is HERE

Step-By-Step Making A Graph Using Google Sheets is HERE

Please also make sure that you print out your report and hand it in to me no later than one week after the last day that you took data for that lab. In case it isn't obvious, please DO NOT share, email or otherwise electronically transmit your lab to me unless I specifically and explicitly tell you to do that.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO collaborate verbally. Do NOT copy or electronically share your lab reports with anyone. That RARELY ends well.

♦ Labs Report Rubric (version 2.01)

♦ Lap Report Full Example

♦ Lab Report Review/Checklist

♦ How to write an abstract (with college example)

♦ How to write a Lab Conclusion/Discussion (with college example)

♦ Mouse Trap Car Reflection

♦ Air Friction Lab Reflection

♦ Notes to our class conversation on this lab are HERE

TP Lab	Work with your group to develop a mathematical model to predict the mass of a toilet paper roll based on the length of the paper pulled from it.
C.O.F LAB	Work with your group to see how PRECISELY you can measure the coefficient of friction between various materials
Rosedale Vehicle Acceleration	Work with your group to develop a lab that centers on the degree to which cars accelerate AWAY from the stop light on Rosedale right out in front of our school
Energy Lost in a Collision	Work with your team to determine how much energy is lost when a Vernier Lab Card collides and rebounds from a barrier on a track.
Air Bags ~~Project Files~~	Work with your group to design a design and conduct an investigation to answer the unit question: Why does an air bag keep us safe in an auto collision?
Air Friction	Work with your group to design and conduct an investigation to determine a relationship between a particular physical property (volume, density, surface area or mass) and air friction. Notes from class are HERE
Small Amplitude Tsunami Lab	Work with your team to take data from the OOI website and use that data to accurately measure wavelength, amplitude, frequency and speed of a small amplitude tsunami wave.
EQ Model	Work with your group to design and construct building models on a 'shake table' to see how accurately you can model a 9.0 earthquake and its effects on the Puget Sound region.
Optics	Work with your group to compare the speed of light in various types of soda pop
There Once Was a Lady Named Bright Who Traveled FAR Faster Than Light She set Out One Day (In a Relative Way) And Came Back the Previous Night