Falling-Ball Viscometer
IAL Core Practical 2
Drop steel ball-bearings of different radii through glycerol to investigate how terminal velocity depends on ball size, then reason from your results to find the viscosity of the liquid.
"As the extension, so the force."
Young's Modulus Wire
IAL Core Practical 3
Measure the extension of a long wire under increasing load to determine the Young modulus of the wire's material. Includes micrometer measurement of wire diameter and graph analysis.
Stress-Strain Explorer
Material Properties Demonstration
Load copper, steel, glass and rubber samples to failure, record force and extension, then plot and annotate your own stress-strain curves on paper.