The sensor measures compression and extension forces applied perpendicular to the beam. Comes complete with accessories to use with the most common investigations.
It is supplied with a 20N spring, cushioned and non-cushioned stops, and a hook. It can be clamped to a stand, or attached to the Dynamics System.
The hook is used with the spring for simple harmonic motion investigations, with stretchy rubber for bungee jumping, and with a stiff wire for investigating centripetal force in a pendulum.
The cushioned and non-cushioned stops are used when investigating collisions and crumple zones, where a car or trolley on a ramp collides with the sensor.
Applications include:
Physics:
- Simple harmonic motion in a spring
- Centripetal force in a pendulum
- Bungee (impulse, momentum, conservation of energy and resultant forces)
- Newton's laws of motion e.g. action and reaction
- Frictional forces
- Hooke's law
- Resultant forces – static and dynamic
- Collision impact
- Investigating the effectiveness of crumple zones
- Buoyant force (flotation and resultant forces)
- Forces and moments in levers
- Triangle of forces
- Demonstration balance
Biology:
- Investigating tree girth (Force sensor used as a dendrometer)
- Muscle fatigue test
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