Equipment
The Checkout System
At each station there is a supply of equipment that should be sufficient for doing the basics of the experiments intended for that station. However, there is much more exploration that can and should be done, and much of that requires additional equipment. Two tables are set up in the center of the room, containing the additional equipment for each of the special topics.
Mechanics Equipment
Each cart and track station should have the following equipment
- Track and at least one cart — please don’t drop the carts. Please do keep the tracks clean, to minimize unwanted friction
- Springs and masses
- Motor
- Power Supply
- Damping mechanism
- Rotary Motion Sensors
- Motion Sensors
- Pulleys
- Pasco ScienceWorkshop 750 Data Acquisition box
- String, Endstops, Scissors and other odds and ends
Each shaking buildings station should have the following equipment
- Granite Base
- Aluminum Base Plate
- 4 Aluminum Floor Plates
- Motor with clamp
- 2 Accelerometers
- Set of Support Poles
- Power Supply
- TDS Series Oscilloscope
In addition, the list of additional equipment that can be checked out for oscillations can be found in Additional Oscillations Equipment.
Electronics equipment
Each electronics station should have the following equipment
- Breadboard
- TDS series Oscilloscope
- Multimeter
- Function Generator
- Power Supply
- BNC and banana cables and respective connectors
- Assorted Resistors, Capacitors, Op Amps, Wire Connectors, Inductors, and Light Bulb
- Decade Capacitors
- Decade Inductors
- Decade Resistors
In addition, the list of additional equipment that can be checked out for electronics can be found in Additional Electronics Equipment.