Galilei 27 Orbiting Iris 2 (Part 1)  
  Date :
Author :
May 2008
Camil Cyr, Adaptated by : Caroline Viger
The students are members of a scientific team on a mission to explore extrasolar planets. Their first task is to calculate the acceleration at orbital height and the force exerted on the space ship while it is in o...  
Length : 30 minutes to 1 hour
     
  Galilei 27 Orbiting Iris 2 (Part 2)  
  Date :
Author :
May 2008
Camil Cyr, Adaptated by : Caroline Viger
The student is the captain of a flight crew on a space ship whose mission is to explore extrasolar planets. The space ship, Galilei 27, is approaching the planet Iris 2 when the on-board computers malfunction. The ...  
Length : 1 1/2 to 2 hours
     
  Measuring the Mass of a Car  
  Date :
Author :
November 2007
Nathaniel Lasry
Students are participating in a challenge: They must measure the mass of the car using only the objects available in the lab: a stopwatch, a bathroom scale, a reference weight, a measuring tape, a Vernier caliper o...  
Length : 4 hours total (2 x 2)
     
  Secret Agent – Infiltrating an Abandoned Factory  
  Date :
Author :
January 2015
Olivier Tardif-Paradis, Mathieu Riopel
In this activity, the students will try to slip a secret agent into a factory’s air duct. To do this, they have to determine the exact descent time of the platform the secret agent is standing on. The platform is a...  
Length : 2 - 3 hours
     
  Watch Your Back!  
  Date :
Author :
July 2016
Mathieu Riopel, Olivier Tardif-Paradis, Alexandre April
This problem asks the students to analyse the musculoskeletal forces in the back of a person lifting a load. More specifically, they are asked to calculate the muscular force and the reaction force exerted on a lum...  
Length : About 3 hours