Free Fall/Gravity Kit
Bar Code: 1137
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The second law of motion

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The free fall tube

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The "Monkey Hunter"

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The free fall timer

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Description: The electronic device included in this kit
illustrates and measures acceleration due to gravity for falling
objects. This kit also includes a device for observing projectile
motion versus free-falling objects.
Inventory:
Three large items and two Rubbermaid tubs
- Free fall vacuum tube-1 meter long
- Ring stand rod, 90 cm
- Bell jar for vacuum pump base
- Container #1
- Vacuum Pump - 1/6 HP Gast Manufacturing Co. - Lubricated
Model # 0211-V45M-G8
- 8 foot piece of 1/4 inch orange hose
- White PVC vacuum base with black rubber gasket
- Dow Corning High Vacuum Grease
- GTX Castrol 10W-30 Motor Oil (1 qrt.)
- (2) Heavy Duty 50 foot extension Cords
- Book - "Gravity"by Van Cleave
- Book - "The Science Book of Gravity" by Ardley
- Book-"What is the moon like" by Kelley
- Book- "Science by kids" by Ward
- Container #2
- Parabolic Collision Apparatus DK-200 (Monkey Hunting
Apparatus.)
- Within the box:
- Launcher Unit with D-Cell Battery
- Free fall unit - electromagnet with plug and lead
wire
- Ring stand clamp
- metal ball bearing balls
- plastic ball (all balls are in a small, white
pouch)
- large red ball with an iron tip and a string tied
around the middle
- Angle-mirror (in the small, white pouch)
- (2) 2.5 inch C-clamps
- Instruction Page
- Second Law of Motion Kit. Within the Kit:
- Spring Activated rod on a metal base
- (3) Ball bearing balls - one with a hole in it (in a
film container)
- 8 inch support rod
- small level
- (3) Ring Stand Bases
- (2) Ring Stand Clamps (1 simple, 1 complex)
- Ring Stand Rod (20 inches)
- Free Fall Timer Kit w/AC adapter, Model ME-9202B
- (4) Grounding Adapters
- Roll of Masking Tape
- Package of feathers (3) and a piece of ClingFree
- 1 liter plastic water bottle
- Book - Experiments in Physics
- Medium duty 9 foot extension cord
URL: http://rpsec.usca.sc.edu/TravelingScience/freefall_gravity.html
(May 1999)
Copyright © 2001 by the Board of Trustees of the University
of South Carolina.
Ruth Patrick Science Education
Center
Center of Excellence in Educational
Technology
University of South Carolina
Aiken
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801
803-648-6851