Designing a Kinematics Investigation with Constant Velocity Cars

112.45(b)(1)(A)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Science · 12th Grade

ask questions and define problems based on observations or information from text, phenomena, models, or investigations;

112.45(b)(1)(B)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Science · 12th Grade

apply scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive, comparative, and experimental investigations, and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;

112.45(b)(1)(C)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Science · 12th Grade

use appropriate safety equipment and practices during laboratory, classroom, and field investigations as outlined in Texas Education Agency-approved safety standards;

112.45(b)(1)(D)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · Science · 12th Grade

use appropriate tools such as balances, ballistic carts or equivalent, batteries, computers, constant velocity cars, convex lenses, copper wire, discharge tubes with power supply (H, He, Ne, Ar), data acquisition probes and software, dynamics and force demonstration equipment, electrostatic generators, electrostatic kits, friction blocks, graph paper, graphing technology, hand-held visual spectroscopes, inclined planes, iron filings, lab masses, laser pointers, magnets, magnetic compasses, metric rulers, motion detectors, multimeters (current, voltage, resistance), optics bench, optics kit, photogates, plane mirrors, prisms, protractors, pulleys, resistors, rope or string, scientific calculators, stopwatches, springs, spring scales, switches, tuning forks, wave generators, or other equipment and materials that will produce the same results;