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E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate beaming pattern of pulsars and pulsed binary X-ray sources.
E2-49: PULSAR MODEL - RADIOWAVES
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show the changing field pattern from a rotating dipole.
E2-48: NON-TWINKLING PLANET
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate why a planet does not "twinkle" like a star.
E2-47: TWINKLING STAR
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show how air currents cause the "twinkling" of a star.
E2-46: ECLIPSING BINARY STAR MODEL - SPHERES
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate the orbits of stars in an eclipsing binary.
E2-45: ECLIPSING BINARY STAR MODEL - LIGHTS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show how we view a rotating binary star.
E2-44: BINARY STAR MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate the orbital motion of a binary star system.
E2-43: ROTATING STAR FIELD
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show the apparent motion of the night sky.
E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Demonstrates how density stratification (differentiation) in interior of planets occurs.
E2-24: UMBRA AND PENUMBRA - COLOR FILTERS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Identify the source of penumbra regions.
E2-23: UMBRA AND PENUMBRA - EXTENDED SOURCE
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show umbra and penumbra with an extended source, as in an eclipse.
E2-11: SOLAR PLASMA MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Mass driver and ring heater show coronal holes and coronal heating.
E2-03: CRATER FORMATION MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate how a crater forms as a result of an impact or a blast from below.
E1-21: GRAVITATIONAL LENS OPTICAL MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrate optical characteristics of a gravitational lens.
E1-12: MARBLE IN GLASS BOWL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrate orbits in a gravitational potential well.
E1-01: CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT - MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Aid in describing the Cavendish experiment.
C7-51: BALLISTIC PENDULUM - PELLET GUN
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Determine the speed of an air gun pellet using a ballistic pendulum.
C7-43: AIR TABLE - SMALL - COLLISIONS OF PUCKS
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Demonstrate collisions of pucks on an air table in rooms not accessible by the large air table.
C7-25: SUPERBALL, VACUUM MUD AND WOOD BLOCK COLLISIONS
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Show that a larger impulse is imparted by an elastic collision.
C7-21: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM - COLLISION AND PROJECTILE
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Illustrate conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.
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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
Show static combinations of springs Read More
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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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