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F3-02: SURFACE TENSION - BALLOONS

Category: F3 Surface Tension

Purpose: demonstrate surface tension in a counterintuitive way.

F2-22: BUOYANCY PARADOX - ACCELERATED FRAME

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Illustrate dramatically the concept of buoyancy.

B4-04: SPRING AND STRING THING

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Illustrate series and parallel springs in a counterintuitive way.

D1-81: TRICYCLE

Purpose: Illustrate a tricky problem in rotational dynamics.

L2-07: PERVERTED IMAGE - LIGHT

Category: L2 Plane Mirrors

Purpose: Demonstrate that a plane mirror does not produce a left-to-right inversion.

C4-51: WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS IN BEAKER

Purpose: Demonstrate weightlessness in free fall.

B3-15: FOOL'S TACKLE

Category: B3 Simple Machines

Purpose: Illustrate analysis of forces in a pulley system

B3-14: EQUILIBRIUM PARADOX - SCALES AND PULLEY

Category: B3 Simple Machines

Purpose: Counterintuitive demonstration involving pulley system

B2-41: ROBERVAL BALANCE

Purpose: Demonstrate a paradox in equilibrium of forces and torques

C2-25: FUNNEL CART

Purpose: Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion

L2-05 PERVERTED IMAGE - AXES IN MIRROR

Category: L2 Plane Mirrors

Purpose: Investigation of the nature of images from a plane mirror

I1-11 THERMAL EXPANSION - BALL AND HOLE

Purpose: Illustrates thermal expansion

F2-21 REACTION TO BUOYANT FORCE

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Demonstrates the reaction force using a liquid.

F2-05 BUOYANCY - BOAT AND ROCK

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Illustrates buoyancy

C7-17 SUPERBALL

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Illustrates nearly elastic collisions

C5-18 FAN CART

Purpose: Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion

C4-62 DROPPED SLINKY

Purpose: Illustrate apparent weightlessness in free fall

C4-52 WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS IN CUP ON POLE

Purpose: Illustrate apparent weightlessness in free fall

C2-27 FUNNEL CART ON INCLINE

Purpose: Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion

C2-26 FUNNEL CART WITH MASS OVER PULLEY

Purpose: Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion
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