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Pressure sensor membrane deflection

How does a Pressure Sensor Work - Physics of Probeware

Introduction to Pressure Sensors Pressure sensors are one of the most widely used sensors and can be found in probeware for lab measurements, but more…
Mass spring damper model of an accelerometer

How does an Accelerometer Work - Physics of Probeware

Introduction to Accelerometers What does an accelerometer measure? The obvious answer is acceleration, but that's not really true. An accelerometer actually…
Egg Drop Experiment with Data

Egg Drop Experiment with Data

Egg Drop Experiment with Data We can take an egg drop further by adding sensor data collection. Normally an egg drop is a “pass or fail” activity, and…

Middle School Science

Diagram of Half-Atwood Machine from Dr. Richard Born - Newton's First Law and Second Law

Investigating Newton's First Law and Second Law of Motion

Investigating an Object’s Motion: Newton's First Law and Second LawBackground Information  If you push a chair across a floor, you are exerting a force on the…
Half-Atwood Machine - NGSS MS-PS2-2

How to teach NGSS MS-PS2-2: Newton's Second Law

Using a Half-Atwood Machine for Newton's Second Law The Half-Atwood Machine consists of a cart and a weight connected by a string. It can be a perfect tool…
Newton's Third Law Crash Cushion Activity

Newton’s Third Law Experiment with Crash Cushions

Engineering Crash Cushions to Learn Newton's Third Law Newton's Third Law Example Car crashes are a dangerous example of Newton's Third Law. The car exerts a…

High School Physics

Ideal gas law with steel ball moelcules lab setup

Ideal Gas Law Verified in a Steel Balls Lab

Introduction to the Ideal Gas Law The ideal gas law is commonly seen in the form PV = nRT, where P is the pressure, V is the volume, T is the absolute…
Data collection snapshot

Moment of Inertia Challenge

Introduction to the Moment of Inertia Challenge We are going to assume that you have studied the concepts of moment of inertia and physical pendulums in your…
A disk and a ring physical pendulum

Moment of Inertia vs. Mass

Introduction to Moment of Inertia There are numerous analogies when comparing linear and rotational motion.  At the heart of these comparisons lie the…

Scratch

A Voyager/ScratchX Theremin

Theremin Music Simulation: Voyager/ScratchX

What is a Theremin? A theremin , named after its Russian inventor in the early 1900's, is an electronic musical instrument that is controlled without any…
Wireless Controller Game for Scratch

A Wireless Controller for a Scratch Game

Let's create a game in Scratch that is controlled by a wireless controller using the PocketLab accelerometer. PocketLab can connect directly and wirelessly to…
Reading External Temperature Sensors in Scratch

Programming with Sensors in Scratch

This lesson will show you programming in Scratch with external sensors. We can read sensor data directly into Scratch and use it to write programs that make…

News

Web App Source Selection Screen Guide

PocketLab on Windows 10

Beta version of the PocketLab Web App available now The PocketLab Web App is now available on Windows 10 devices as a beta version. The PocketLab Web App…
PocketLab Air on lab bench measuring indoor air quality

PocketLab Air Office Data

As we get PocketLab Air prepared for manufacturing, we are doing lots of sensor testing in the PocketLab offices. Here is data from Friday, November 30th…
Model of planet transit of star

Explore Earth's Systems and Outer Space with your PocketLab

Engaging NGSS Earth and Space Science Activities with PocketLab Explore Earth's systems and discover other planets with these two NGSS aligned Earth and Space…