PHYS131
I6-01 GAS PRESSURE - MODEL
Purpose:
Illustrates the molecular nature of gas pressure
I5-22 FIRE SYRINGE
Category: I5 Laws of Thermodynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates heating air by compression
I2-22 THERMODYNAMICS BY TOUCH
Category: I2 Transfer of Heat
Purpose:
Demonstrates that touching a material tells something about its conductivity, not necessarily its temperature
G1-60 CHAOS - TWO BIFILAR PENDULA
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrates chaotic motion
G1-52 STRINGLESS PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates an example of SHM
F2-01 ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrates the buoyant force on a body submerged in a fluid to be equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
F1-06 WATER SEEKS ITS OWN LEVEL
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Shows that pressure is dependent on depth, not shape of container
E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrates motion of planets or satellites in an inverse square gravitational field
C8-11 INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL ENERGY - SPRING-COUPLED SUPERBALLS
Category: C8 Mechanical Energy and Power
Purpose:
Shows that when energy disappears from the center of mass motion it may be converted into internal energy
C8-04 HILL TRACK
Category: C8 Mechanical Energy and Power
Purpose:
Demonstrates conservation of energy
C7-11: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - EQUAL MASSES
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Demonstrates conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum in multiple elastic collisions
C6-02: INCLINED PLANE - FRICTION BLOCK
Category: C6 Friction
Purpose:
Demonstrates that the coefficient of static friction is greater than the coefficient of sliding friction, and determines the coefficient of static friction.
C5-14 ROCKET TRIKE
Category: C5 Third Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
C4-52 WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS IN CUP ON POLE
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate apparent weightlessness in free fall
C3-02 INERTIA - TABLE CLOTH TRICK
Category: C3 First Law of Motion
Purpose:
Dramatically demonstrate inertia
C2-27 FUNNEL CART ON INCLINE
Category: C2 Kinematics in One and Two Dimensions
Purpose:
Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion
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C7-01: AIR TRACK - ELASTIC COLLISIONS
Demonstrate conservation of energy and conservation of momentum in elastic collisions Read More
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C7-02: AIR TRACK -INELASTIC COLLISIONS
Demonstrate conservation of momentum in elastic collisions Read More
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C7-03: AIR TRACK - SCATTERING WITHOUT CONTACT
Show that elastic scattering can occur between two objects without actual physical contact between the objects Read More
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C7-04: AIR TRACK - COLLISION VELOCITY MULTIPLIER
Illustrate velocity multiplication with a three-to-one mass ratio collision Read More
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C7-11: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - EQUAL MASSES
Demonstrates conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum in multiple elastic collisions Read More
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C7-12: COLLISION OF BALLS - ONE LIGHTER MASS
Show what happens when one mass in a collision ball set is different from the others Read More
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C7-13: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - GRADUATED MASSES
Demonstrate how the velocity is multiplied by a sequence of collisions between balls of decreasing mass Read More
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C7-14: COLLISIONS OF BALLS WITH FLOOR
Illustrate collisions of different balls with the floor Read More
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C7-15 COLLISIONS OF BALLS - 3 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Shows velocity multiplication in colliding balls Read More
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C7-16: HAPPY AND UNHAPPY BALLS
Illustrate coefficient of restitution Read More
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C7-17 SUPERBALL
Illustrates nearly elastic collisions Read More
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C7-18 COLLISIONS OF BALLS - ASTROBLASTER
Shows velocity multiplication in colliding balls Read More
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C7-19: GAUSSIAN GUN
Demonstrate transfer of energy in an elastic collision Read More
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C7-21: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM - COLLISION AND PROJECTILE
Illustrate conservation of momentum and conservation of energy Read More
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C7-23: MEDICINE BALL AND SKATEBOARD
Demonstrate large-scale collisions Read More
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C7-24: SILLY PUTTY
Show collisions with an unusual material Read More
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C7-25: SUPERBALL, VACUUM MUD AND WOOD BLOCK COLLISIONS
Show that a larger impulse is imparted by an elastic collision Read More
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C7-26: BOUNCING PUTTY AND NON-BOUNCING SUPERBALL
Show unusual collisions Read More
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C7-42: AIR TABLE - COLLISIONS OF PUCKS
Qualitatively demonstrate elastic and inelastic two-dimensional collisions Read More
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C7-43: AIR TABLE - SMALL - COLLISIONS OF PUCKS
Demonstrate collisions of pucks on an air table in rooms not accessible by the large air table Read More
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C7-44: COLLISIONS - HOVERPUCKS
Demonstrate two-dimensional collisions Read More
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C7-51: BALLISTIC PENDULUM - PELLET GUN
Determine the speed of an air gun pellet using a ballistic pendulum Read More
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C7-52: BALLISTIC PENDULUM - LABORATORY MODEL
Demonstrate operation of the standard laboratory type ballistic pendulum Read More
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C7-53: AIR TRACK - SPEED OF AIR GUN PELLET
Determine the speed of an air gun pellet using conservation of momentum in an inelastic collision Read More
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