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Using Scroll Bars to Create
Interactive Spreadsheets
Martha Lietz
AAPT National Meeting
Boise, ID
August 6, 2002
[email protected]
Overview
 How to create scroll bars in Excel
 Examples of scroll bars
– RL circuits
– standing waves
– kinematics
 Worksheet to go with kinematics
graphs spreadsheet
How to use scroll bars
 Click on View menu,Toolbars ,Forms
 Formatting the Scroll Bar
– cell link
– zero minimum
– integer incremental change
– page change
 Creating a simple position vs. time
graph
Specific Scrollbar Spreadsheets
 Standing Waves
– two identical waves passing each other
and their sum
 RL Circuits
– resistor and inductor in a series circuit
– total current
– total voltage, voltage across inductor
and voltage across resistor
Specific Scrollbar Spreadsheets
 Kinematics Graphs
– d vs. t (constant velocity)
– v vs. t (constant acceleration)
– d vs. t (constant acceleration)
Worksheet Activity
 Used in Regular Physics, but
accessible to higher levels as well
 Explores relationships between
graphs and kinematics equations
 Took 35-40 minutes with each
student on a computer.
 Initial velocity on d vs. t (a  0) is the
most difficult
How to get Activities
 http://www.niles-hs.k12.il.us/
west/science/marlie/ExcelActivities.
zip
– Kinematics Graphs Worksheet
(.doc and .pdf)
– Kinematics Graphs Spreadsheet
– Standing Wave Sum Spreadsheet