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Measurement Lab
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KERWIN SPRINGER · CSEC PHYSICS FINE thumb grip lock external jaws internal jaws depth rod
🔍 Magnifier — coincidence point
Live Reading
Main scale0·0 cm
Vernier coincidence0
Vernier reading0·00 cm
0·00cm
How to use: Drag the gold slider left or right to open/close the jaws. Tap an object below to slide it between the jaws and take a measurement.
Step 1. Read the main-scale cm mark to the left of the vernier zero.
Step 2. Find the vernier division that lines up exactly with a main-scale tick.
Step 3. Multiply that number by 0·01 cm and add it to step 1.
drag thimble ↕
C-frame anvil spindle sleeve (main scale) thimble ratchet
🔍 Magnifier — sleeve & thimble
Live Reading
Sleeve (main)0·00 mm
Half-mm visible?no
Thimble reading0
Thimble value0·00 mm
0·00mm
How to use: Drag the gold thimble up/down to rotate it. Each small division = 0·01 mm. A full turn advances the spindle 0·50 mm.
Step 1. Read the whole mm on the sleeve (below the datum line).
Step 2. Check if a half-mm mark is visible (above the line). Add 0·50 mm if so.
Step 3. Read the thimble where the datum line crosses it, × 0·01 mm.
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Reading

24·0 °C

Temperature control

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About this thermometer

Click any labelled part on the diagram to see what it does and why it's designed that way.

⚖️ Moments Lab — the Balancing Act

Drag the brick stacks onto the plank. The columns hold it level while you set up — predict which way it will tip, then press Remove supports to test. It balances when the anticlockwise and clockwise moments are equal. Grey boxes A and B are unknown masses — tick Show moments · reveal ? to weigh them. A weight on the pivot has zero moment — try it, the beam won’t budge. g = 10 N/kg.

🧲 Hooke’s Law — the Spring Lab

Drag weights from the shelf onto the spring’s hanger. It stretches by e = F ÷ k, so each equal weight adds an equal stretch — until the elastic limit, where the line bends. The grey ? weights are unknown: hang one and the calibrated spring weighs it (W = k × e). g = 10 N/kg.

💧 Pressure Jets — the leaking-tank sandbox

Turn the tap on to fill the tank, then click the dashed right wall to drill a hole anywhere. Each jet leaves at v = √(2gh) and falls in a parabola — the deeper the hole, the faster it shoots and the further it lands. Click a hole again to plug it.

Liquid Gravity Tank W Tank H Hole size

For a fixed water level a hole at half-depth throws its jet the furthest — range = 2√(d·y).