APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
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Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.
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Coupled Compass Oscillations Video Analysis Activity Feature Summary
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Coupled Compass Oscillations Video Analysis Activity
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- The Coupled Compass Oscillations Video Analysis Activity explores the behavior of a pair of loosely coupled compass needles in air with weak damping. The needles are far enough apart that the magnetic interaction between their magnetic dipoles is much weaker than their interaction with the Earth's magnetic field. The resulting motion displays beats--when one compass is momentarily at rest, the other oscillates with maximum amplitude.
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- June 26, 2014 - January 1, 2015
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