Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility
DEMONSTRATION LIST BY OUTLINE TOPIC
1. MECHANICS
1A. Measurement
1A10.20 MASSES - KILOGRAM AND POUND
1A10.30 LENGTHS - METER AND YARD
1A10.31 METRIC TAPE
1A10.36 1 "nsec"
1A10.50 RADIAN
1A10.55 VOLUMES - SPHERICAL VS CYLINDRICAL
1A30.10 CARTESIAN COORDINATE AXES
1A40.11 HEIGHT MEASUREMENT BY TRIGONOMETRY
1A40.40 MAGNETIC VECTORS - BLACKBOARDS
1A50.00 CALCULATOR WITH OVERHEAD DISPLAY PANEL
1C. Motion in One Dimension
1C10.10 BULL DOZER ON MOVING SHEET
1C10.20 DYNAMICS TRACK WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR ON COMPUTER - CONSTANT VELOCITY AND UNIFORM ACCELERATION
1C10.24 CONSTANT VELOCITY - GALILEO'S EXPERIMENT
1C20.17 GALILEO'S EXPERIMENT - MASSES IN FREE FALL
1C20.20 BALL DROP ON ROPE - EQUAL AND UNEQUAL INTERVALS
1C20.21 FREE FALL - EQUAL TIME INTERVALS
1C20.30 DYNAMICS TRACK WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR ON COMPUTER - DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF ACCELERATION
1C20.31 DYNAMICS TRACK WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR ON COMPUTER: MODIFIED ATWOODS CONFIGURATION- UNIFORM ACCELERATION
1C30.01 DYNAMICS TRACK - THE ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY
1C30.11 FREE FALL WITH ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR AND COMPUTER
1D. Motion in Two Dimensions
1D15.10 KINEMATICS WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC RANGER
1D40.12 CENTER OF MASS MOTION - PLUMBER'S HELPER
1D40.55 DYNAMICS TRACK - CENTER OF MASS OF COUPLED GLIDERS
1D50.10 ROTATING MASS ON STRING
1D50.11 MASS ON STRING
1D50.40 ROTATING WATER BUCKET
1D50.45 PENNY AND COAT HANGER
1D50.70 ROLLING CHAIN
1D52.10 ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS
1D55.10 TRAJECTORY FROM CIRCULAR ORBIT
1D60.10 DYNAMICS CART AND PROJECTILE LAUNCHER
1D60.15 DYNAMICS CART AND PROJECTILE LAUNCHER ON INCLINE
1D60.16 DYNAMICS CART AND PROJECTILE LAUNCHER WITH MASS OVER PULLEY
1D60.20 BALLS DROPPED AND SHOT
1D60.21 TRAJECTORY OF BALL DROPPED BY WALKER
1D60.30 MONKEY AND HUNTER
1D60.60 TRAJECTORY OF BALL - MODEL
1D60.65 LASER WATERFALL
1E. Relative Motion
1E20.01 ACCELEROMETER ON ROTATOR
1F. Newton's First Law
1F20.10 INERTIA - MASSES HANGING IN SERIES
1F20.20 INERTIA - LEAD BRICK AND HAND
1F20.30 INERTIA - TABLE CLOTH TRICK
1F20.31 STRAW AND POTATO
1F20.34 INERTIA - SMALL STEEL BALL
1F20.36 INERTIA - PEN IN BOTTLE
1G. Newton's Second Law
1G10.01 ACCELERATION BY ITERATED BLOWS
1G10.02 DYNAMICS TRACK - F=MA WITH ULI AND FORCE PROBE
1G10.10 DYNAMICS TRACK WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR - NEWTON'S SECOND LAW
1G10.11 DYNAMICS TRACK WITH ULI AND ULTRASONIC MOTION DETECTOR - A=F/M
1G10.40 ATWOOD MACHINE
1G10.41 HORIZONTAL ATWOOD MACHINE
1G20.40 WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS IN BEAKER
1G20.44 WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS ON SPRING
1G20.45 DROPPED SLINKY
1G20.75 HELIUM BALLOON IN ACCELERATED BOX
1G20.87 ACCELEROMETER - BALL IN WATER
1H. Newton's Third Law
1H10.02 NEWTON'S THIRD LAW - STATIC DYNAMOMETERS
1H10.15 DYNAMICS TRACK - ACTION-REACTION PAIRS
1H10.20 FAN CART
1H11.30 ROCKET BOTTLE
1J. Statistics of Rigid Bodies
1J10.00 CENTER OF MASS - DISC SECTION
1J10.01 CENTER OF MASS - PLUMBER'S HELPER
1J10.30 EQUILIBRIUM OF TORQUES ON METER STICK
1J11.20 CORBELED ARCH
1J11.50 DOUBLE CONE - SMALL
1J20.00 CENTER OF GRAVITY - WALKING THE PLANK
1J20.11 STATES OF EQUILIBRIUM - CONE
1J20.20 CENTER OF MASS - FORK AND SPOON ON TOOTHPICK
1J20.21 CENTER OF MASS - HINGED STICK PARADOX
1J20.45 BALANCE BEAM - VARIATION ON THE TIGHTROPE WALKER
1J20.60 CENTER OF MASS - BOTTLE
1J30.10 EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES - INCLINED PLANE
1J30.20 SPRING AND PULLEY PARADOX
1J30.23 SUM OF FORCES - SPRING SCALES
1J30.24 VERTICAL FORCES - FOUR SPRING SCALES
1J30.25 VECTOR ADDITION WITH ROPE AND STUDENTS
1J30.50 EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES - LARGE PROJECTION
1J30.51 ADDITION OF NON-LINEAR FORCES
1J30.60 DYNAMICS TRACK - SAILING UPWIND
1J40.20 TORQUE - PHYSICAL DEFINITION
1J40.21 EQUILIBRIUM OF TORQUES - LARGE
1J40.22 EQUILIBRIUM OF TORQUES - SMALL
1J40.25 TORQUE CONDITION FOR EQUILIBRIUM
1J40.70 CRANE BOOM
1K. Applications of Newton's Laws
1K10.30 SPOOL
1K20.00 SLIDING FRICTION - LECTURE TABLE AND FELT
1K20.35 INCLINED PLANE - FRICTION BOX AND WEIGHTS
1K20.36 INCLINED PLANE - FRICTION WITH THREE BLOCKS
1K20.70 KEYWHIP
1K30.10 Bed of Nails (Pressure)
1L. Gravity
1M. Work and Energy
1M10.20 PILE DRIVER
1M20.15 EQUILIBRIUM PARADOX - SCALES AND PULLEY
1M20.40 LEVERS - THREE CLASSES
1M20.41 LEVER AND LOADED WAGON
1M20.45 LEVERS - WRECKING BAR
1M40.10 GIANT PENDULUM
1M40.11 PENDULUM FOR CLASSROOMS
1M40.20 LOOP-THE-LOOP
1M40.50 MAXWELL PENDULUM - LARGE
1M40.51 MAXWELL PENDULUM - SMALL
1M40.52 YO-YO
1N. Linear Momentum
1N10.80 ROCKET TRIKE
1N20.10 CENTER OF MASS - CARTS ON BALANCE BOARD
1N22.20 WATER ROCKET
1N30.10 COLLISIONS OF BALLS - EQUAL MASSES
1N30.11 COLLISIONS OF BALL WITH FLOOR
1N30.12 SUPERBALL
1N30.17 ENERGY CONSERVATION - SUPERBALL AND SOUNDING BOARD
1N30.22 HAPPY AND SAD BALLS
1N30.30 DYNAMICS TRACK - ELASTIC COLLISIONS
1N30.31 DYNAMICS TRACK - INELASTIC COLLISIONS
1N30.32 DYNAMICS TRACK - SCATTERING WITHOUT CONTACT
1Q. Rotational Dynamics
1Q10.30 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE
1Q10.31 MISCELLANEOUS BODIES ON INCLINED PLANE
1Q40.10 ROTATING STOOL AND WEIGHTS
1Q40.25 MASS ON STRING - ORBITS WITH VARYING RADIUS
1Q40.26 ROTATING MASS ON SPRING
1Q40.30 ROTATING STOOL AND BICYCLE WHEEL
1Q50.10 GYROSCOPE WITH COUNTERWEIGHTS
1Q50.21 BICYCLE WHEEL GYROSCOPE ON ROPE
1Q50.40 SUITCASE GYROSCOPE
1Q60.35 FOOTBALL
1Q60.40 SPINNING BOOK
1R. Properties of Matter
1R10.10 HOOKE'S LAW
1R10.11 HOOKE'S LAW - COMPRESSING A SPRING
1R10.30 SPRINGS IN SERIES AND PARALLEL
1R20.11 ELASTIC LIMIT OF RUBBER BAND
2. FLUID MECHANICS
2A. Surface Tension
2A10.51 SURFACE TENSION - BALLOONS
2A15.00 SURFACE TENSION - THREAD ON WATER
2B. Statics of Fluids
2B30.10 CONDENSATION OF STEAM - GALLON CAN COLLAPSE
2B30.15 CONDENSATION OF STEAM - SODA CAN COLLAPSE
2B30.30 MAGDEBURG HEMISPHERES - PORTABLE
2B30.46 INVERTED GLASS OF WATER
2B30.50 LIFTING USING ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
2B40.12 REACTION TO BUOYANT FORCE
2B40.13 BUOYANCY PARADOX- INVERTED BLOCK
2B40.20 ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE
2B40.21 BUOYANCY - BOAT AND ROCK
2B40.22 BUOYANCY - PEPSI AND DIET PEPSI
2B40.30 CARTESIAN DIVER
2B60.20 SIPHON
2C. Dynamics of Fluids
2C20.30 BERNOULLI'S PRINCIPLE - HAIRDRYER AND PING PONG BALL
2C20.35 BERNOULLI'S PRINCIPLE - BEACH BALL
2C30.65 TERMINAL VELOCITY - STACKED COFFEE FILTERS
2C50.12 DRUM AND CANDLE
2C60.30 NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID
2C60.40 SILLY PUTTY
3. OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES
3A. Oscillations
3A10.00 EXAMPLES OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION
3A10.14 PENDULA WITH 4 TO 1 LENGTH RATIO
3A10.17 PENDULA WITH DIFFERENT MASSES
3A15.50 CENTER OF PERCUSSION - BAT AND MALLET
3A20.10 MASS ON SPRING - WITH STAND
3A20.11 HOOKE'S LAW AND SHM
3A20.35 DYNAMICS TRACK - SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION
3A60.20 DYNAMICS TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
3A60.31 PSYCHOACOUSTIC VIBRATION TRANSDUCER
3A60.40 MASS ON SPRING - HAND HELD
3A70.10 WILBERFORCE PENDULUM
3A70.27 SPRING-COUPLED PHYSICAL PENDULA
3A70.30 COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
3A70.31 COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO
3A70.45 COUPLED SERIES MASSES HANGING ON SPRINGS
3A80.13 BIFILAR PENDULUM
3A95.60 SWING MODEL
3B. Wave Motion
3B10.10 TRANSVERSE WAVES ON A LONG SPRING
3B10.11 TRANSVERSE WAVES ON A LONG SPRING - FREE END
3B10.20 SLINKY ON LECTURE TABLE - TRAVELING WAVES
3B10.30 SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - TRAVELING WAVES
3B10.31 SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - SUPERPOSITION OF PULSES
3B10.32 SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - REFLECTION OF PULSES
3B10.33 SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - STANDING WAVES
3B20.00 LONGITUDINAL WAVES IN METAL
3B30.30 BELL IN VACUUM
3B30.40 SPEAKER AND CANDLE
3B30.50 HELIUM VOICE
3B40.10 DOPPLER BALL
3B40.11 DOPPLER EFFECT - TUNING FORK ON STRING
3B50.40 MOIRE PATTERNS
3B60.10 BEATS AND RESONANCE - TUNING FORKS
3C. Acoustics
3D. Instruments
3D40.20 STROKED ALUMINUM ROD
3E. Sound Reproduction
4. THERMODYNAMICS
4A. Thermal Properties of Matter
4A10.10 THERMOMETERS
4A30.10 THERMAL EXPANSION - BIMETAL STRIP
4A30.20 THERMAL EXPANSION - BALL AND RING
4A40.30 RUBBER AT LN TEMPERATURE
4B. Heat and the First Law
4B10.28 SPECIFIC HEAT - ALUMINUM AND COPPER
4B20.45 CONVECTION - HOT PLATE
4B60.50 TRANSFORMATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY INTO HEAT
4B70.10 FIRE SYRINGE
4C. Change of State
4C20.50 LATENT HEAT - ICE TO WATER TO STEAM
4C20.60 HAND WARMER
4C30.15 BOILING WATER BY PUMPING
4C30.30 AIR BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN
4C30.34 CHANGE OF STATE OF LN - POPPING CAN LID
4C30.35 CHANGE OF STATE WITH BANG
4C31.30 DRINKING BIRD
4C33.50 PULSE GLASS
4D. Kinetic Theory
4D20.10 CROOKES' RADIOMETER
4D60.61 DIFFUSION - FOOD COLOR IN WATER
4E. Gas Law
4E10.15 IDEAL GAS LAW - VOLUME OF ONE MOLE
4E10.20 HELIUM BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN
4E20.40 BOYLED MARSHMALLOWS
4F. Entropy and the Second Law
4F10.40 DUST EXPLOSION
4F30.10 STIRLING ENGINE
5. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
5A. Electrostatics
5A10.00 KILOVOLT CARPET
5A10.10 TRIBOELECTRICITY - CHARGING BY FRICTION
5A10.13 CHARGED BALLOONS
5A10.20 ELECTROPHORUS
5A20.10 ELECTROSTATIC ATTRAC AND REPULS - CHARGED CYLINDERS
5A20.20 ELECTROSTATIC ATTRAC AND REPULS - WIMSHURST MACHINE
5A20.25 VAN DE GRAAFF - PENDULUM
5A20.26 VAN DE GRAAFF - REPULSION OF PIE PANS
5A20.30 VAN DE GRAAFF - TRAINED RABBIT
5A30.10 CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
5A40.16 INDUCTION - ELECTROSCOPE
5A40.30 ELECTROSTATIC FORCE - MOVING LUMBER
5A50.10 WIMSHURST MACHINE
5A50.30 VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATOR WITH GROUND SPHERE
5B. Electric Fields and Potential
5B10.10 ELECTROSTATIC HAIR RAISING
5B10.40 ELECTRIC FIELD LINES
5B10.54 EXISTENCE OF ELECTRIC FIELDS
5B20.33 FARADAY CAGE
5B20.35 FARADAY CAGE - RADIOWAVES
5B30.30 LIGHTNING ROD SIMULATOR
5B30.40 ELECTRIC WIND
5C. Capacitance
5C10.10 CAPACITORS
5C30.20 DISCHARGE OF CAPACITOR WITH BANG
5C30.30 ENERGY STORED IN A CAPACITOR
5D. Resistance
5D30.10 CONDUCTIVITY OF SALT SOLUTION
5D40.10 JACOB'S LADDER - PORTABLE
5E. Electromotive Force and Current
5E50.10 THERMOCOUPLE
5E50.60 THERMOELECTRIC FAN
5F. DC Circuits
5F10.10 OHM'S LAW
5F10.11 NON-OHMIC DEVICE - LIGHT BULB
5F15.10 ENERGY CONVERSION - IMMERSION HEATER
5F15.20 HOT DOG COOKER - 110 VAC
5F20.00 CIRCUIT PARADOXES
5F20.50 SERIES AND PARALLEL LIGHTS - TWO BULBS
5F30.10 CURRENT IN RC CIRCUIT?
5F30.15 RC CIRCUIT - RC TIME CONSTANT - PROJECTION METERS
5F30.60 RELAXATION OSCILLATOR: NEON LAMP
5G. Magnetic Materials
5G10.10 MAGNETS
5G10.20 MAGNET - BROKEN BUT NO MONOPOLE
5G20.71 ELECTROMAGNET WITH JUNK
5G50.15 CURIE POINT OF NICKEL
5G50.50 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY - MAGNET LEVITATION
5H. Magnetic Fields and Forces
5H10.20 OERSTED EXPERIMENT
5H10.30 MAGNETIC FIELD OF A BAR MAGNET
5H10.32 MAGNETIC FIELD OF A BAR MAGNET - 3D VERSION
5H15.10 MAGNETIC FIELD - EME SET - SOLENOIDS
5H15.11 MAGNETIC FIELD - EME SET - STRAIGHT WIRE
5H15.46 HELMHOLTZ COILS AND HALL PROBE
5H30.10 VISIBLE CRT
5H30.15 OSCILLOSCOPE CRT - DEFLECTION BY MAGNET
5H40.10 FORCE BETWEEN CURRENT-CARRYING WIRES
5H40.30 FORCE ON CURRENT IN MAGNETIC FIELD
5H40.35 FORCE BETWEEN CURRENT-CARRYING COILS
5J. Inductance
5J10.20 PARALLEL LR CIRCUIT: BURNT BULB
5J10.23 SELF INDUCTION: DEMOUNTABLE TRANSFORMER
5K. Electromagnetic Induction
5K10.15 INDUCTION IN A SINGLE WIRE
5K10.60 EARTH INDUCTOR
5K20.10 EDDY CURRENT PENDULUM
5K20.25 LENZ'S LAW - MAGNET IN ALUMINUM TUBE
5K20.26 LENZ'S LAW - PERMANENT MAGNET AND COILS
5K20.30 THOMSON'S COIL
5K20.66 ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN
5K30.20 INDUCTION COIL WITH LIGHT BULB
5M. Semiconductors and Tubes
5M10.61 V-I CURVES FOR OHMIC AND NON-OHMIC DEVICES
5N. Electromagnetic Radiation
5N30.10 PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
6. OPTICS
6A. Geometrical Optics
6A10.15 VISIBLE LASER
6A10.15 SCATTERING OF LASER BEAM
6A20.30 LIGHT BULB AND PARABOLIC MIRROR
6A20.35 PENNY AND PARABOLIC MIRRORS
6A20.36 APPARENT REFLECTION FROM REAL IMAGE
6A20.45 LARGE CONVEX AND CONCAVE MIRRORS
6A40.30 DISAPPEARANCE OF GLASS IN LIQUID
6A40.40 BENDING OF LASER BEAM IN SUGAR SOLUTION
6A42.45 REFRACTION - ROD IN WATER
6A42.65 PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - WATER PRISM
6A44.20 TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION IN LONG TANK
6A44.40 PLEXIGLASS SPIRAL
6A46.10 RAINBOW - WATER FLASK
6B. Photometry
6B40.55 WIEN'S LAW OF THERMAL RADIATION
6C. Diffraction
6C10.10 LASER DIFFRACTION - FIXED SINGLE SLIT
6C10.15 LASER DIFFRACTION - VARIABLE SINGLE SLIT
6C20.30 LASER DIFFRACTION - PINHOLES
6D. Interference
6D20.10 LASER DIFFRACTION - MULTIPLE SLITS
6D20.15 LASER DIFFRACTION - GRATINGS
6D20.20 DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
6D20.21 DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - GRATINGS ON OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
6D20.22 DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF SODIUM - PROJECTION
6E. Interference
6F. Color
6F10.10 ADDITIVE COLOR MIXING - PROJECTORS
6F10.11 COLOR PERCEPTION IN SHADOWS - SLIDE PROJECTORS
6H. Polarization
6H10.10 POLAROIDS AND GOOSENECK LAMP
6H10.11 CROSSED POLAROIDS - E FIELD COMPONENTS
6H10.30 ROPE AND COOKIE COOLERS
6H20.00 REFLECTION OF LIGHT FROM DIELECTRIC AND CONDUCTOR
6H20.10 BREWSTER'S ANGLE - POLAROID AND TWO REFLECTORS
6H30.50 POLAROIDS AND KARO SYRUP
6H40.10 TYNDALL'S EXPERIMENT - COLLOIDAL SUNSET
6H40.12 TRANSVERSE NATURE OF LIGHT
6H50.00 DEPOLARIZATION BY SCATTERING - WAX PAPER
6J. The Eye
6J10.21 EYE MODEL - OPTICS
6Q. Modern Optics
7. MODERN PHYSICS
7A. Quantum Effects
7A10.10 PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT IN ZINC - UV LAMP
7A10.40 PHOTOELECTRIC PROPELLER
7B. Atomic Physics
7B10.12 DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - MISCELLANEOUS TUBES
7B10.20 DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF MERCURY
7B35.75 PLASMA MACHINE - EYE OF THE STORM
7D. Nuclear Physics
7E. Elementary Particles
7F. Relativity
8. ASTRONOMY
8A. Planetary Astronomy
8A10.80 TRANSPARENT CELESTIAL GLOBE
8B. Stellar Astronomy
8C. Cosmology
9. EQUIPMENT
9A. Support Systems
9B. Electronic
9C. Mechanical
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