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- This small group activity is designed to provide students with the means to the potential energy of an elastic system in one dimension.
- Students use the “Partial Derivative Machine” to experimentally measure quantities in order to compute the potential energy of their system.
- The whole class discussion focuses on how to experimentally measure integrals and how to represent integrals in multiple ways.