Use Scratch block-based programing to build a model of an oscillating puffer fish and investigate damped simple harmonic motion.
Instruction sheet for pupils that guides them through building and adjusting their model.
Question sheet for students to investigate how initial displacement, frequency and damping constant affect SHM.
Full code and answer sheet for teachers.
scratch.mit.edu/projects/414245392
Scratch is a free software online that is very easy to use. Building a model themselves helps the students to really think and understand what is actually going on.
Simple harmonic motion, damping, damped, oscillations, oscillation, SHM, frequency, spring constant
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Excellent mix of coding skills to develop a S. H. M applet...but too diffuse a resource for me to use. I need to focus specifically on the course content;introducing coding in lessons is a distraction. Excellent to give to students in their own time however.
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