Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: No Dumping
In this activity, students will investigate the importance of soils and other trace evidence in connecting victims, crime scenes, and suspects.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-ti@nspire-@-case-8-no-dumping
AC Circuits
Students explore a model of alternating electric current. They observe the effects of varying voltage, angular velocity, frequency, and phase shift on the shape of the waveform. They also calculate the relative phase shift between two waveforms. Finally, they create a model of a three-phase alter...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/ac-circuits
Air Resistance
Students collect data on the rate at which coffee filters fall.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/air-resistance
Balancing Torques and Forces
In this activity, students explore the conditions necessary to produce static equilibrium using first-, second-, and third-class levers.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/balancing-torques-and-forces
Forces on an Inclined Plane
In this lesson, students will collect data on the magnitude of the force acting on an object resting on an inclined plane.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forces-on-an-inclined-plane
Forces on Point Charges
Students explore interactions between charged point particles. They first explore graphical vector addition and then use vector addition rules to explore the net forces on charged particles. The preconstructed templates used in this activity include charged particles and forces of interactions be...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forces-on-point-charges
Waves and Vibrations Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Physics: Waves and Vibrationshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/waves-and-vibrations-assessment
Hit the Target
In this lesson, students will explore the range of a marble that rolls down a ramp and off a table. The goal is for students to develop a mathematical model that will allow them to hit a target placed on the floor on the first try.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/hit-the-target
Impulse of a Force
In this lesson, students will explore the impulse produced by a cart when it hits a stationary wall.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/impulse-of-a-force
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Bouncing Back
In this activity, students will be using the motion sensor as a sonar detector, through air to locate and identify a missing object in a box.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-tinspiresuptmsup--case-2-bouncing-back
Focusing on Light
In this activity, students explore the reflection of light by parabolic and semicircular mirrors. They begin by exploring reflection using a series of flat mirrors that are attached to one another to create a flexible mirror that can simulate a curved mirror. Students then explore reflection by a...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/focusing-on-light
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Name That Tune
In this activity, students will analyze sound waves to calculate the frequency, or pitch, of musical notes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-tinspiresuptmsup--case-3-name-that-tune
Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion
Students explore the properties of waveforms representing damped and driven simple harmonic motion. First, they identify the functional form of the damping in a simple harmonic oscillator. Then, they discover the relationship between the driving frequency, the fundamental frequency, and the dampi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/damped-and-driven-harmonic-motion
Electricity and Magnetism Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Physics: Electricity and Magnetismhttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electricity-and-magnetism-assessment
Electromagnetism
Students use an animated diagram of a magnetic field and a coil. Students rotate the coil and determine the number of magnetic field lines passing through the coil at a given angle. Students graph the relationship and then consider the rate of change of the magnetic field.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electromagnetism
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Flipping Coins
In this activity, students will explore the concept of density and use it to distinguish between pennies minted in different years.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-ti@nspire-@-case-4-flipping-coins
Electromagnets
In this activity, students will create a solenoid-type electromagnet using two different methods of coiling the wire around the core. They will use a sensor to determine the relationship between the number of turns of wire and the magnetic field strength for each method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electromagnets
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Life in the Fast Lane
In this activity, students will investigate the coefficient of friction and use it to determine the speed of a vehicle from the distance of its skid.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-ti@nspire-@-case-13-life-in-the-fast-lane
Energy of Free Oscillations
Students explore energy transformation and energy conservation in simulated spring-mass oscillations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/energy-of-free-oscillations
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Hit and Run
In this activity, students will learn displacement, velocity, and acceleration are related quantities. Students will explore how patterns in one measurement can be used to predict patterns in the others.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-ti-nspire--case-file--hit-and-run
Tool - Stopwatch
This tool can be used alone, or you can copy/paste it into another TNS document.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tool--stopwatch
Tower of Hanoi
Students explore the relationship between the number of discs and moves required to solve the classic “Tower of Hanoi” problem. The TI-Nspire file contains an interactive model produced by Andy Kemp. The interactive model allows you to change the number of disks and automaticall...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/tower-of-hanoi
Vernier - Energy in Food
Students will use the temperature probe to measure temperature changes to measure and compare the energy content of different foods.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--energy-in-food
Vectors In Component Form
Students experiment with an interactive 2 dimensional vector and observe the corresponding changes to its representation in i and j component form.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vectors-in-component-form
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Students generate random polynomials and observe the distribution of the zeros on the complex plane. From the distributions students are able to draw conclusions about the zeros, and therefore roots, of a polynomial in order to gain a better visual understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of Alge...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fundamental-theorem-of-algebra