ASTR 100
H1-02 SPEAKER AND CANDLE
Category: H1 Nature of Sound
Purpose:
Demontrates longitudinal behavior of sound waves
H1-01 BELL IN VACUUM
Category: H1 Nature of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrates sound wave requirement for a medium
G4-02 RIPPLE TANK
Category: G4 Mechanical Waves - Two Dimensional
Purpose:
Illustrates wave phenomena water surface
G3-28 SUSPENDED SLINKY
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Shows longitudinal and transverse traveling waves & standing waves
G3-21 TRANSVERSE WAVES ON A LONG SPRING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrates traveling waves
E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrates motion of planets or satellites in an inverse square gravitational field
D3-05 ROTATING CHAIR AND BICYCLE WHEEL
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-02: MASS ON STRING - ORBITS WITH VARYING RADIUS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-01 MASSES SLIDING ON ROTATING CROSSARM
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
C5-14 ROCKET TRIKE
Category: C5 Third Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
C5-13 WATER ROCKET
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
C3-05 INERTIA - PEN IN BOTTLE
Category: C3 First Law of Motion
Purpose:
Dramatically demonstrate inertia
C3-02 INERTIA - TABLE CLOTH TRICK
Category: C3 First Law of Motion
Purpose:
Dramatically demonstrate inertia
C2-22 MONKEY AND HUNTER
Category: C2 Kinematics in One and Two Dimensions
Purpose:
Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion
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A2-01: CARTESIAN COORDINATE AXES
Illustrate a standard right-handed cartesian coordinate system Read More
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A2-02: XYZ AXES ON EXTENDED HANDLE
Aid in discussing angular momentum Read More
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A2-11: CIRCUMFERENCE VS. DIAMETER - CHAIN ON CYLINDER
Show the relationship between the diameter and the circumference of a circle Read More
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A2-12: SLATED SPHERE
Demonstrate rotation and spherical geometry Read More
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A2-13: ELLIPSE DRAWING BOARD
Demonstrate one method of drawing ellipses Read More
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A2-14: DISSECTIBLE CONE
Illustration of the conic sections Read More
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A2-15: HYPERBOLOID FROM STRAIGHT LINES
Approximate the hyperboloid Read More
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A2-16: SADDLE POINT MODEL
Illustrate the geometry of a saddle point Read More
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A2-17: CLOSED CURVES AND CAPPING SURFACES
Illustrate various complicated closed curves Read More
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A2-21: MAGNETIC VECTOR BOARD
Demonstrate properties of vectors Read More
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A2-22: MAGNETIC VECTORS - LECTURE HALL BLACKBOARDS
Demonstration of vector properties Read More
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A2-23: VECTOR PRODUCT
Illustrate the product of two vectors Read More
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A2-24: TWO-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR ALGEBRA
Illustrate aspects of vector algebra Read More
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A2-32: HEIGHT MEASUREMENT BY TRIGONOMETRY
Determine the height of a student using trigonometry
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A2-33: DIRECTION COSINES MODEL
Aid in perception of the components of a three-dimensional vector
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A2-51: PROBABILITY BOARD - PROJECTION
Demonstrates Gaussian distribution Read More
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