L.D. Bell IB Physics

🍫📉 Decay never tasted so sweet! Students used M&Ms to model radioactive decay and applied the decay law to track how “atoms” disappear over time. Physics you can count on! ☢️⚡#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🌊✨ Making waves, one pulse at a time! Students used slinkies to explore longitudinal and transverse waves while measuring speed, frequency, and wavelength. When physics moves, it really travels! ⚡📏#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLiB @RandyBelcherBHS

🌀⚙️ Physics in perfect rhythm! Students timed oscillations and explored how mass and spring constant affect motion in a simple harmonic oscillator. When physics clicks, it really springs to life! ⏱️✨#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

💥🚗 Momentum matters! Students investigated explosions, elastic collisions, and perfectly inelastic collisions to test whether total system momentum is conserved. From crash to calculation, physics wins! ⚡📊#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🚀⚡ Impulse in action! Students tested how force applied over time changes momentum and verified the impulse-momentum theorem. Space-level physics today! 💥📊#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🧲⚡ From spin to spark! Students built electric generators and tested how magnet arrangement and rotor speed affect voltage. Faraday’s Law brought it all to life! 💡🔄#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

Boing! 🐸✨ Students investigated how a compressed spring toy transforms stored elastic energy into motion and height. Hooke’s Law in action! ⚙️💨#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🧲⚡ Induction in action! Students explored Faraday’s Law to see how moving magnets generate electric current and power bulbs. Physics that really sparks! 💡🔄#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🚀🌍 Orbiting into physics! Students calculated the orbital radius, speed, and energy of GPS satellites to see how physics keeps navigation systems running 24/7. From Newton to navigation! 🚀⚡#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🐷🌀 When pigs fly… we calculate centripetal force! Students measured radius, period, and tension to determine the force keeping our flying pig in circular motion. Physics makes it possible! ⚙️📏@IBnIBPhysics @IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

Big build day! 🛠️ IB Sciences bringing the IB Collaborative Sciences Project to life by building enrichment devices for injured animals from the Fort Worth Nature Center. #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🥚🎢 What an Egg-sperience! Students designed precision bungee jumps using springs and energy conservation to stamp a raw egg without breaking it. One drop, one chance, zero cracks! ⚙️⚡#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🎈🏠Taking physics to new heights! Students calculated the buoyant force of a single balloon and used it to estimate how many balloons it would take to float the house from UP. Spoiler: it’s a LOT. 💭💡#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

💨📐 From hallway races to incline challenges! Students pushed carts to test Newton’s Second Law and discovered how mass and acceleration play out on level and sloped surfaces. Force in action! ⚙️💪#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

IB Collaborative Science Planning Day 🌿 This year’s animals: tortoise, caracara & screech owl. Students designed biodegradable hide boxes and enrichment devices for the Fort Worth Nature Center. 🐢🦅🦉#IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🕵️‍♂️⚡ Mystery in motion! Students stepped into the role of investigators, collecting evidence and using trajectory analysis and projectile motion to crack a mysterious “whodunit.” Case closed! 💡🔍#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

⚙️💫 Simple harmonic, simply awesome! Students explored the displacement and speed of a mass-spring system to uncover the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. Energy never disappears, it just changes form! 🔄⚡#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🌋💥 Boom! Students analyzed real footage from the Tavurvur volcano eruption to calculate the launch speed, distance, and height of flying pyroclastic debris using projectile motion. Explosive learning in action! ⚡📏#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

🏁⚙️ We CAN roll with it! Students raced hoops, cylinders, and spheres down ramps in a Rotational Derby to see how shape and rotational inertia affect speed. Turns out, mass distribution makes all the difference! 🌀💨#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS

💞📈 Graph speed dating! Students rotated through “graph dates,” asking questions and describing motion to find their perfect match between distance–time and velocity–time graphs. Graphical love connection made. ⚡📊#IBnIBPhysics #IBnLDBELLib @RandyBelcherBHS