Hooke's Law, Spring Constant, and Energy HONORS

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• Masses and Spring lab PHET Honors.docx - 102 kB

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Title	Hooke's Law, Spring Constant, and Energy HONORS
Description	Lab builds from qualitative observations of spring motion, energies of a moving spring, and altering of a spring constant to a quantitative application of Hooke's Law. Students have a choice of using Hooke's Law directly or graphing and finding a spring constant via slope. Students then use the spring constant to determine unknown masses and verify their work using the virtual lab. Written for an introductory activity at the honors level or for a later unit activity at a regular level.
Subject	Physics
Level	High School
Type	Lab
Duration	60 minutes
Answers Included	No
Language	English
Keywords	elastic, energy, honors, hooke's law, k, spring constant
Simulation(s)	Masses and Springs (HTML5)

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Author(s)	Steve Banasiak
Contact Email	sbanasiak@hf233.org
School / Organization	Homewood-Flossmoor HighSchool
Date submitted	11/26/19
Date updated	11/26/19