Push and Pull: Fans in Action

The current issue of the The Physics Teacher magazine (March 2005) contained an article about building fan carts for studying Newton's Laws in your classroom. A wealth of studies can be performed in the lab with the carts. If your students need to spend additional time experimenting with the carts feel free to let them explore the Fan Cart Gizmo, which allows you to perform almost every experiment discussed in the article (everything but the torque/angular acceleration experiment).

The Gizmo is a great tool for using during classroom discussions, in your office when students have questions, when you are preparing a quiz or test and want images, or for students in the evening when they are reviewing content at home.

Feel free to explore Newton's Laws with the Fan Cart Gizmo!

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