Mechanics Learning Activities
Avantor offers a complete catalogue of instruments and tools useful for demonstrating key, basic concepts of physics that are applicable to everyday life both in and out of the laboratory. Demonstrate core ideas such as acceleration down a plane, friction, potential and kinetic energy, electrical conductivity, magnetic fields, wavelengths and velocity of sound, and more. Durable educational materials are designed for heavy use with consistent levels of handling, and all models are easy to use.
Hooke’s Law University Apparatus
Supplier: VWR International
This apparatus verifies that that the amount by which a material body is deformed (the strain) is linearly related to the force causing the deformation (the stress).
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Pulley Demo, Advanced, Set
Supplier: VWR International
Nine pulleys and an innovative device combine to create a classroom demonstrations for each topic on pulleys in your curriculum.
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Collision Ball Apparatus
Supplier: VWR International
An easy, inexpensive way to effectively demonstrate conservation of energy and momentum
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Equilibrium Tubes
Supplier: VWR International
A set of four borosilicate glass tubes of different shapes connected together to illustrate that liquids will stand at the same level.
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Eisco Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
Supplier: VWR International
Easy to use because of its smaller diameter and simple means of hanging and loading, this gyroscope brings precession diagrams to life.
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Pulleys
Supplier: VWR International
These free-running plastic pulleys are durable in design.
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Force Table Pulley with Clamp
Supplier: VWR International
This force table pulley includes a heavy-duty clamp and operates smoothly.
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Newton's Cradle
Supplier: VWR International
A Highly Effective Demonstration of Elastic Collision
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Projectile Launcher
Supplier: VWR International
This launcher is easy to assemble, and it delivers consistent classroom results.
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Economy Force Table
Supplier: VWR International
The heavy base of the economy force table offers stability for all applications.
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Force Mechanism Trough
Supplier: VWR International
With the Force Mechanism Trough, students can research acceleration and the effect of gravity on a moving body by propelling steel balls or a wood block down an aluminum trough track.
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Gyroscope & Gimbal Cradle
Supplier: VWR International
This is an excellent, inexpensive apparatus for experiments in precession, inertial guidance, and gyroscopic stabilization.
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Capillarity Apparatus
Supplier: VWR International
The Capillarity Apparatus is intriguing demonstration of molecular attraction.
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Deluxe Loop the Loop
Supplier: VWR International
Instantly transform potential energy into kinetic energy.