Pressure and temperature are monitored. This is part of an experiment to determine the Boltzmann constant. A charged capacitor is discharged through a resistor. Model rocket engines are fired in lab against a force probe. The thrust profile is used to calculate position, speed, and acceleration as functions of time for an ideal model rocket in flight.
Students then fire a rocket to see if it reaches the pre-calculated height.
The photogate was used to determine pendulum periods. These two graphs are part of the same experiment exploring and verifying Newton's second law of motion. The motion involves a glider on a 2-meter air track. This data was collected using a photogate monitoring a pulley. It can also be done with a photogate and a picket fence.