Philip Harris Air Track and Accessories
Philip Harris Air Track and Accessories
Product code: B8H25339
Product Description
This Linear Air Track kit is designed to provide a cost-effective system for the study of all aspects of Dynamics in a virtually friction-free environment. It is particularly effective in the field of collisions where conservation of momentum is dramatically demonstrated.
The kit contains everything required for a vast array of experiments covering:
- Velocity,
- Motion and acceleration,
- Potential energy,
- Kinetic energy,
- Conservation of energy,
- Simple harmonic motion (SHM),
- Motion on level and inclined planes.
Gliders are designed to accept standard slotted masses for additional load.
The Air Track is supplied with a comprehensive accessory pack to facilitate every type of interaction.
The accessories include Gliders / Vehicles with mass attachment, catapults and buffers.
For the measurement of glider speed, Light Gates and Timers are required (B8H76786 or similar).
Air Blower (B8H25341) is required, but not included.
- Linear Air Track with accessories, 2m length.
- Includes a full range of accessories to assist in the teaching of Motion and Forces.
- Key Stage 3 Physics - Motion & Forces: Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time). Forces being needed to cause objects to stop or start moving, or to change their speed or direction of motion (qualitative only).
- Key Stage 4 Physics - Forces & Motion: Explain the vector-scalar distinction as it applies to displacement, velocity and speed. Relate linear motion as observed from one moving vehicle to its observation from another moving. Make and interpret measurements of distances, times, speeds and accelerations,and represent these in graphical form. Recall Newton’s First Law and relate it to observations showing that forces can change direction of motion as well as its speed; identify and distinguish between these for forces which alter motion in everyday experience. Recall Newton’s Second Law and explain its status as the definition of inertial mass. Recall and apply Newton’s Third Law both to equilibrium situations and to collision interactions and relate it to the conservation of momentum in collisions. Explain that force is rate of momentum change and explain the dangers caused by large decelerations and the forces involved. Forces as vectors. Interpreting quantitatively graphs of distance, time, and speed. Estimating speeds and accelerations in everyday contexts.
- An Air Blower is required for operation.
Help your students explore and understand:
- Velocity and acceleration
- Newton's laws of motion
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
- Conservation of momentum in an ideal world, without the problem of friction - they can deal with that in later experiments!
This Linear Air Track kit is designed to provide a cost-effective system for the study of all aspects of Dynamics in a virtually friction-free environment. It is particularly effective in the field of collisions where conservation of momentum is dramatically demonstrated.
The kit contains everything required for a vast array of experiments covering:
- Velocity,
- Motion and acceleration,
- Potential energy,
- Kinetic energy,
- Conservation of energy,
- Simple harmonic motion (SHM),
- Motion on level and inclined planes.
Gliders are designed to accept standard slotted masses for additional load.
The Air Track is supplied with a comprehensive accessory pack to facilitate every type of interaction.
The accessories include Gliders / Vehicles with mass attachment, catapults and buffers.
For the measurement of glider speed, Light Gates and Timers are required (B8H76786 or similar).
Air Blower (B8H25341) is required, but not included.
- Linear Air Track with accessories, 2m length.
- Includes a full range of accessories to assist in the teaching of Motion and Forces.
- Key Stage 3 Physics - Motion & Forces: Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time). Forces being needed to cause objects to stop or start moving, or to change their speed or direction of motion (qualitative only).
- Key Stage 4 Physics - Forces & Motion: Explain the vector-scalar distinction as it applies to displacement, velocity and speed. Relate linear motion as observed from one moving vehicle to its observation from another moving. Make and interpret measurements of distances, times, speeds and accelerations,and represent these in graphical form. Recall Newton’s First Law and relate it to observations showing that forces can change direction of motion as well as its speed; identify and distinguish between these for forces which alter motion in everyday experience. Recall Newton’s Second Law and explain its status as the definition of inertial mass. Recall and apply Newton’s Third Law both to equilibrium situations and to collision interactions and relate it to the conservation of momentum in collisions. Explain that force is rate of momentum change and explain the dangers caused by large decelerations and the forces involved. Forces as vectors. Interpreting quantitatively graphs of distance, time, and speed. Estimating speeds and accelerations in everyday contexts.
- An Air Blower is required for operation.
Help your students explore and understand:
- Velocity and acceleration
- Newton's laws of motion
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
- Conservation of momentum in an ideal world, without the problem of friction - they can deal with that in later experiments!
