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F1-05: DOES WATER SEEK ITS OWN LEVEL?
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
A trick to challenge the students.
F1-04: EQUILIBRIUM TUBES
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate that pressure is transmitted equally throughout a fluid.
F1-03: PASCAL'S VASES
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate that pressure is dependent only on depth, and not on the shape of the container.
F1-02: FLUID PRESSURE VS DEPTH - ANEROID GAUGE
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Show water pressure versus depth with an aneroid gauge.
D3-41: AIR TABLE - RECTANGULAR PUCK COLLISIONS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Qualitatively show conservation of angular momentum in collisions of a circular puck with a rectangular puck.
D3-32: KEYWHIP
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Demonstrate angular momentum conservation in a surprising way.
D3-12: SWING MODEL
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Model the pumping of a swing using conservation of angular momentum.
D3-06: ROTATING CHAIR - HELICOPTER MODEL
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Demonstrate conservation of angular momentum.
D3-04: ROTATING STOOL AND WEIGHTS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Demonstrate conservation of angular momentum.
D2-43: MOMENT OF INERTIA - TORSIONAL CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
D2-42: MOMENT OF INERTIA -TORSIONAL CHAIR AND BOARD
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate moment of inertia using the torsional chair.
D2-41: MOMENTS OF INERTIA ABOUT THREE PRINCIPAL AXES
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrate the three principal axes of a thin aluminum plate.
D2-32: AIR TABLE - LINEAR AND ANGULAR ACCEL OF A DISC
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrate the accelerating disc problem.
D2-21: CENTER OF PERCUSSION - BAT AND MALLET
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate the center of percussion using a baseball bat.
D2-13: RACING PENDULA
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrate in a counter-intuitive way the effect of moment of inertia on rotational acceleration.
D2-12: TOPPLING CHIMNEY
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate how a toppling chimney breaks up.
D2-11: HINGED STICK AND FALLING BALL
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Application of the rotational analog of Newton's second law.
D2-05: DUMBBELL - VARIABLE MOMENT OF INERTIA
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
D2-03: CANS ON INCLINED PLANE - WITH AND WITHOUT WATER
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrate the effect of moment of inertia on rolling acceleration.
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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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