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F4-01: VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS
Category: F4 Fluid in Motion
Purpose:
Compare the viscosities of water and mineral oil.
F3-31: WATER BELL
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in an artistic manner.
G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.
F3-21: SURFACE TENSION - ALCOHOL AND WATER IN SAND
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate the difference between the surface tension in water and in alcohol.
F3-06: SURFACE TENSION - NEEDLE ON WATER
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate surface tension by floating a needle on water.
G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate a complex resonance system.
G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate mechanical resonance.
G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate driven resonance.
G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.
F3-03: SURFACE TENSION - SOAP BUBBLES
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in a perhaps counterintuitive way using soap bubbles.
G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.
G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.
F2-41: DENSITY - SLOPE OF MASS VS VOLUME GRAPH
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Determine the density of water.
G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.
F2-32: FLOATING SQUARE BAR
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy and the orientation in which a long square bar floats in a very dramatic way.
F2-26: BUOYANCY PARADOX - BALL IN TWO LIQUIDS
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy with a counterintuitive element.
F2-25: BALANCE PARADOX - BUOYANCY WITH CROSSOVER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Present buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
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B4-01 HOOKE'S LAW
Demonstrate the linear relationship between force and stretching for a simple spring. Read More
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B4-02: HOOKE'S LAW - COMPRESSING A SPRING
Demonstrate Hooke's law for a spring under compression.
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B4-03: SPRINGS IN SERIES AND PARALLEL
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B4-04: SPRING AND STRING THING
Illustrate series and parallel springs in a counterintuitive way.
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B4-11: ELASTIC LIMIT OF RUBBER BAND
Demonstrate Hooke's law and elastic limit.
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B4-12: ELASTIC LIMIT OF SOLDER SPRING
Demonstrate the elastic limit for an inherently inelastic object.
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B4-13: ELASTIC LIMIT OF A BALLOON
Burst a balloon.
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B4-14: ELASTIC LIMIT OF WIRE
Demonstrate the variation in tensile strength with wire diameter.
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B4-21: DEFLECTION OF BEAM - OPTICAL LEVER
Demonstrate the small deflection of an aluminum beam due to weighting between supports.
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B4-31: FAILURE OF WOOD IN COMPRESSION
Demonstrate the dependence of the compressional strength of wooden dowels on their diameter and length.
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B4-32: CAN CRUSHER - WALL STABILITY
Show how a small change in the geometry of the can wall can dramatically affect its ability to support a… Read More
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B4-33: EGG CRUSHER
Show that an egg can support unexpectedly high forces due to its curved shape.
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