Re: [Phys-l] outdoor experiments

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

Totally open-ended exploration:
Use 2 liter soda bottles, brim full, drop onto cement surface from 
measured height(s), measure the height reached by the highest glop of 
water.

Find a relation between the drop height and the max trajectory height.

Use an adjacent wall to measure the height of the splash.

	(is this related to momentum? energy?)



At 12:10 PM +0100 3/13/10, roberto wrote:
> hello,
> i am a physics and math high school teacher;
> thanks for this excellent mail list !
>
> i'd like to ask you information about possible outdoor experiments you
> do or have done in the past;
> by outdoor experiments i mean a wide range of experimentations that
> can be carried outside and not simply inside a lab; i think it may be
> fun and engaging to study the behavior of some physic system taken as
> it is and not artificially reproduced in a lab;
>
> of course, it may be only a preliminary phase, since many experiments
> should also be carried inside the lab as always;
>
> if it is not really clear what i mean, just tell me and i'll reply
>
> thank you in advance
> --
> roberto
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