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E2-73: AUDIOTAPE 18 MIN - SOUNDS FROM SPACE

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Tape of signals from several early artificial satellites.

E2-72: AUDIOTAPE 14 MIN - NRAO PULSAR

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: To listen to a pulsar

E2-71: MILLISECOND PULSAR

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: To "hear" the signal from a pulsar.

I4-51: SUBLIMATION OF DRY ICE - PROJECTION

Purpose: Demonstrate sublimation of carbon dioxide (dry ice) from a solid into a gas.

I3-20: COLLAPSE OF CAN - LARGE CAN WITH MALLET

Category: I3 Gases

Purpose: Demonstrate collapse of a can by atmospheric pressure.

I3-16: COLLAPSE OF CAN - LARGE PUMP

Category: I3 Gases

Purpose: Demonstrate the forces created by atmospheric air pressure.

I2-43: CONVECTION - HOT PLATE

Purpose: See convection currents.

L3-33: VANITY MIRROR

Category: L3 Curved Mirrors

Purpose: Show the image produced by a cocave mirror.

D1-55: ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS

Purpose: Demonstrate "centrifugal reaction" and to indicate why the earth is oblate.

E2-63: EXPANDING UNIVERSE

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrate the concept of the expansion of the universe.

E2-61: GALAXY MODEL

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrate our galaxy.

E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrate beaming pattern of pulsars and pulsed binary X-ray sources.

E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrates how density stratification (differentiation) in interior of planets occurs.

E2-13: SUNSPOT MODEL

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Show how sunspots are darker than their surroundings due to lower temperatures.

E2-12: FUSION MODEL

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrate how nuclei attract each other if they come close enough together.

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.

N2-32: ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF GLASS

Category: N2 Line Spectra

Purpose: Demonstrate absorption spectrum of glass doped with various chemicals.

G4-03: RIPPLE TANK - DOPPLER EFFECT

Purpose: Show how wave fronts crowd together in front of and spread out behind a moving source.

C4-32: FREE FALL IN VACUUM - DISK AND FEATHER

Purpose: Demonstrate that bodies of extremely different densities fall with equal acceleration in the absence of air friction.

C3-11: STRAW AND POTATO

Purpose: Illustrate inertia of motion
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