The purpose of insulation is to maintain a temperature difference between inside and outside with the least possible heat flow and thus a smaller heating requirement. If it’s cold outside…
Explore how natural convection might look in a whole house, with or without a ceiling. Consider the following questions based on your experience of rooms you have been in. Does…
Manipulate the location and magnitude of charges to get a positively charged particle to hit a target.
Explore the relationship between the temperature of a gas and the pressure it exerts on its container. This is commonly known as Gay-Lussac’s Law or Amontons’ Law of Pressure-Temperature. As…
Investigate the relationship between the volume of a gas and the pressure it exerts on its container. This relationship is commonly known as Boyle’s Law. The pressure of a gas…
How does solar radiation interact with the Earth and its atmosphere to cause global warming? Use this model to see what’s going on at the molecular level. Watch the effects…
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a rubber tire. There are many different types of materials. Each material has a particular molecular structure, which is responsible for…
Explore how the charging and discharging of a Van de Graaff generator occurs and changes in potential energy.
Model how electric fields change due to the number and placement of charged objects.
Manipulate the magnitude of charges on two objects to get a third positively charged particle to hit a target.