Principle

"A mass is not only inert, but also heavy." This means that not only is a force necessary to accelerate a mass, but that every mass in the Earth's gravity field also experiences a force, the weight force.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life etc.) incl. protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science teaching with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increase of media competence

Tasks

• Measure with the force sensor the weight force which the slotted weights experience in the earth's gravitational field.
• Determine the relationship between the mass of the slotted weights and the weight force acting on them.

Learning Objectives

The students should understand the difference between a mass and its weight.