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Science for Everyone PocketLab Experiment

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Middle School Science

Bottle Ecosystem

Is Global Warming FAKE NEWS? Creating a Bottle Ecosystem

Can you devise an experiment to see whether increased CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere contributes to warming? We found a teacher who tweeted exactly…
Snapshot for Inverse Square Law of Light

PocketLab Voyager: The Inverse Square Law of Light--Quick and Easy

Virtually every student of physics has done an experiment to verify the inverse square law of light—light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of…
Exoplanet Transits

PocketLab Voyager: How to Discover an Exoplanet

Over the past twenty years, scientists have discovered hundreds of what are known as exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside of our own solar system.  …

High School Physics

Standing Waves on a Suspended Slinky

PocketLab Voyager Quantitative Experiment: Standing Waves on a Suspended Slinky

In addition to being a fun toy, the “Slinky” is commonly used in physics classes to qualitatively investigate a variety of wave properties: longitudinal versus…
Flywheel Experiment

PocketLab Voyager: A Flywheel Experiment

With the current growth in interest in flywheels, stemming from concern for the environmental impact of fossil fuel use, flywheels provide a convenient way for…
LEGO/VelocityLab Cart

VelocityLab/Voyager: Using VelocityLab with LEGO® Carts

Carts constructed with the LEGO® Simple & Powered Machines Set are great for studying motion kinematics, as the resultant motion is fairly smooth,…

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PocketLab and Felix Baumgartner's capsule

Planning to jump out of a spacecraft 24 miles above Earth? Don’t forget your PocketLab!

Exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 aircraft,Felix Baumgartner did too, but not in an aircraft. He did it by jumping out…
Instructables Explore Science Contest!

Enter for a chance to win a PocketLab and an iPad on Instructables!

Need some PocketLabs for a classroom or for science exploration at home or work? We've given Instructables 17 PocketLabs and an iPad to give away to the best…

Calculating Speed: The Good, the Bad, and the Technically Difficult

Clifton, PocketLab's inventor and CEO, posted a helpful explanation on PocketLab's Projectile Speed graph in our previous forum. The original post is below: …

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