Students collect position-time data for a ball rolling down a ramp. Students then plug the data into the companion Excel document, which automatically plots the data for them. Students then answer the analysis questions on the companion document.

Students set up an apparatus as shown in the companion document. Using geometry coupled with Snell's Law, students are able to determine the index of refraction of multiple liquids. .

Students collect constant velocity data and plug it in to Excel. Excel then graphs the data, and students use the Companion Document to answer analysis questions. .

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2018 Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Using a hot wheels car, students can either convert the car's kinetic energy into potential energy in some form (gravitational or elastic), or transfer the car's kinetic energy to another object. Students then use the companion document to answer analysis questions.

Students hang an object of known mass from a spring scale and submerge it to different depths in a liquid. By analyzing the change in the upward force of the spring scale, students are able to determine the density of the liquid.

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Two balls of equal mass are rolled down two tracks, one with a dip in it. Then, 4 tracks of different forms are compared. Looking at PE and KE for the Conservation of Energy.

Concepts include: PE, KE, and Conservation of Energy, also horizontal motion. Ph 4: conservation laws apply to all interactions. Ph 4b mechanical energy is conserved unless work is done on, by, or within the system. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion. Potential energy is the energy due to an object’s position or state (PH.4 b). Forces within a system transform energy from one form to another with no change in the system’s total energy (PH.4b). Horizontal motion independent of vertical Ph 2a.

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

In this giant pendulum demo, a bowling ball is attached to a cable hanging from the ceiling and set into motion. Concepts discussed include PE and KE with Conservation of Energy.
VA SOL PH.4, 4a, 4b

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

In this demo, two balls are rolled down a ramp, one with greater mass. They hit a plate near the bottom which illustrates the relationship between mass, momentum, force and impulse.
VA SOL PH. 4, 4a

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

In this video, Alison Gaylord uses a CO2 powered "rocket cart" to demonstrate the conservation of momentum and propulsion, and shows that the momentum of the system is equal in magnitude, but opposite in direction, ensuring the momenta of the system always equals zero.
VA SOL PH. 4a, 2a

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo uses an Electrostatic Sphere to demonstrate charges and includes examples of effects of pie tins and hair placed near it. Electrostatics - Coulombs Law
VA SOL 7a, 7b

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo shows a standing harmonic wave, with nodes, antinodes and how increasing the frequency reduces the wavelength.

VA SOL PH. 5

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo includes a cart on a track with vectors identifying motion. Then, the cart slows, and the vector reverses to indicate motion, and the cart reverses direction.
VA SOL PH.3, 3a

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Demo: Using a scale to demonstrate that a=0 with two balanced forces.
VA SOL PH. 3a

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo uses a scale and an elevator ride up and down - demonstrating Newton's Laws with unbalanced forces.
VA SOL PH. 3a, 3b

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo illustrates dropping objects with air resistance and without, confirming that all objects fall at the same rate (g) It includes discussion of a similar experiment done by NASA astronauts on the moon.

VA SOL PH. 2d

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo illustrates that two objects fired horizontally or dropped vertically (from the same height and with the same initial x or y velocity, respectively, will hit the ground at the same time.
VA SOL PH. 2d

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

This demo includes a stuffed monkey and a “tranquilizer dart” to demonstrate that In a uniform vertical gravitational field with negligible air resistance, horizontal and vertical components of the motion of a projectile are independent of one another with constant horizontal velocity and constant vertical acceleration.
VA SOL PH. 2d

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Concepts include: pitch, frequency, resonance, closed and open tubes.
VA SOL PH. 5

Hands on Physics is a co-production of Blue Ridge PBS ECHO and Virtual Virginia. The episodes were all recorded in the demonstration physics lab at Virginia ...