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Welcome to FlashyScience, your very own virtual laboratory

Here you are the scientist, taking control of the selection, collection and analysis of data to bring experiments to life. Our virtual experiments allow you to explore physics and engineering, and refine your scientific skills in an interactive environment.

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Tensile Testing (lite) Physics

Tensile Testing (lite)

Structural materials are required to withstand a variety of applied loads in use. Understanding how these materials respond to applied loads is vital for informed materials selection. Here you can investigate how materials behave under tensile loading (loads applied along the length of a material to cause stretching).
Micrometer Measurements

Micrometer

An explanation about the experiment about to conduct and what the aim is. Learning objectives and possible outcomes might be a good thing to include, which helps both teachers and students.
Callipers Measurements

Callipers

Callipers are used to measure the dimensions of objects with high precision and are often used in laboratories. Here you can learn how to use Vernier callipers to measure the widths of different samples.
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Resistivity of a Wire

The electrical resistivity of a wire tells us how well the wire material conducts electricity. This is crucial information for any application that involves conducting electricity, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, household electrical goods and computers. Here you can measure the resistivity of wires of different materials and widths, and consider which would be best suited for conducting electricity.
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Free-fall due to Gravity

Time the free fall of a ball to measure the acceleration due to gravity on Earth and through the Solar System!
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Specific Heat Capacity: Solids

Heat materials and see how quickly they increase in temperature
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Thermal insulation

Thermal insulation
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Acceleration and Force

Acceleration due to force
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Radioactivity

Explore using different radioactive sources, different filter materials and the inverse square law
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Potential Divider

A potential divider is a simple circuit that uses resistors to supply a variable 'potential difference' (i.e. voltage).This can be used for many applications, including control of temperature in a fridge or as audio volume controls. Understanding how the resistors in the circuit allow this is important for designing many electronic circuits. Here you can investigate how changes in the two resistors can lead to different voltages across them.
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Density of Solids & Liquids

Discover three ways to measure density
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Ohm's Law

This virtual experiment allows you to investigate Ohm’s law using digital multimeters (DMMs) to measure voltage, electrical current and electrical resistance values generated by a power supply and a resistor. The experiment also allows you to explore the colour codes of resistors and the variability of resistance values in resistors with the same colour code. These investigations will also teach you to use DMMs and practise handling experimental data.
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Tensile Testing (FULL)

Structural materials are required to withstand a variety of applied loads in use. Understanding how these materials respond to applied loads is vital for informed materials selection. Here you can investigate how materials behave under tensile loading (loads applied along the length of a material to cause stretching).
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Light (reflection and refraction)

This one is all about how light passes through and reflects off of materials

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Resistance (of a wire)

Measure potential difference and current to find out how the resistance of a wire changes with its length
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Hooke's Law

Measure how springs stretch under load by adding mass to the end of a spring. You can test Hooke's law, the limit of proportionality for materials in tension, calculate stored energy, and see what happens to the weight of the masses in different parts of the Solar System.
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IV Characteristics of Devices

Measuring resistors, filament lamp and diode
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Gas Laws

Gases are complicated. They are full of billions of molecules that are colliding. To describe how all these interactions is impossible, so the concept of an Ideal gas is made to approximate all these collisions and allows us to predict the behaviour of real gases. In this experiment you can find out the temperature, volume and pressure of a gas are all related and how you can create a heat engine.
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Leslie Cube (IR emission)

Infrared radiation emitted from different heated surfaces

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