PHYS270
L5-11 LASER WATERFALL
Category: L5 Total Internal Reflection
Purpose:
Demonstrates total internal reflection of a laser beam in a water jet
L4-23 BENDING OF LASER BEAM IN SUGAR SOLUTION
Category: L4 Refraction
Purpose:
Demonstrates a medium with a continually varying index of refraction
L4-01 OPTICAL BOARD - RECTANGULAR SLAB
Category: L4 Refraction
Purpose:
Demonstrates refraction. Shows displacement of rays in a uniform slab of glass
L3-31 GIANT 160cm MIRROR - CONCAVE AND CONVEX
Category: L3 Curved Mirrors
Purpose:
Demonstrates images from concave and convex mirrors
L3-16 FOCUSING OF HEAT WAVES BY MIRRORS
Category: L3 Curved Mirrors
Purpose:
Demonstrates that concave mirrors can focus heat waves
L3-03 LARGE CONVEX MIRROR (60cm)
Category: L3 Curved Mirrors
Purpose:
Shows the image from a convex mirror
L2-06 MAGIC TRICK - DISAPPEARING RABBIT
Category: L2 Plane Mirrors
Purpose:
Plane-mirror magic trick
L2-05 PERVERTED IMAGE - AXES IN MIRROR
Category: L2 Plane Mirrors
Purpose:
Investigation of the nature of images from a plane mirror
L2-01 OPTICAL BOARD - PLANE MIRROR
Category: L2 Plane Mirrors
Purpose:
Demonstrates reflection from a plane mirror
K8-45 RADIO WAVES FROM SPARK
Category: K8 Electromagnetic Waves and Sources
Purpose:
Demonstrates that a spark contains radio waves
K8-01 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - MODEL
Category: K8 Electromagnetic Waves and Sources
Purpose:
Shows the relationship between the electric and magnetic field vectors in a plane-polarized traveling electromagnetic wave
K7-03 INDUCTOR DELAYING A LAMP
Category: K7 RLC Circuits
Purpose:
Demonstrates the timing of current in a switched inductor circuit
K7-02 RL CIRCUIT - L/R TIME CONSTANT
Category: K7 RLC Circuits
Purpose:
Shows L/R time constant for a slow circuit
K4-02 MAGNETOELECTRIC GENERATOR WITH LAMP
Category: K4 Motors and Generators
Purpose:
Demonstrates a small 110 VAC magnetoelectric generator
K2-62 CAN SMASHER - ELECTROMAGNETIC
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Blasts a soda can into two pieces using electromagnetism
K2-61 THOMSON'S COIL
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Demonstrates a number of concepts in magnetic induction
K2-44 EDDY CURRENT PENDULUM
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Shows the damping of pendula due to eddy currents
K2-42 LENZ'S LAW - MAGNET IN ALUMINUM TUBE
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Demonstrates Lenz's law
K2-22 INDUCTION COIL WITH LIGHT BULB
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Demonstrates megnetic induction with 110 VAC
K2-04 FARADAY'S EXPERIMENT - EME SET - 20, 40, 80 TURN COILS
Category: K2 Electromagnetic Induction
Purpose:
Shows that the induced current is proportional to the number of turns in the secondary coil
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C5-01: NEWTON'S THIRD LAW - STATIC DYNAMOMETERS
Demonstrate action-reaction in the static case
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C5-02 SPRING AND PULLEY PARADOX
Show that the action-reaction pairs have equal magnitude Read More
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C5-11: AIR TRACK - ACTION-REACTION PAIRS
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
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C5-12: BALLISTIC CANNON CARTS
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
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C5-13 WATER ROCKET
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion Read More
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C5-14 ROCKET TRIKE
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion Read More
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C5-15: REACTION FORCE ON AIR BLOWER
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
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C5-16: HERO'S ENGINE
Demonstrate action and reaction in a rotational system.
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C5-17: ROCKET BOTTLE
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion Read More
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C5-18 FAN CART
Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion Read More
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C5-19: ACTION AND REACTION - INSTRUCTOR AND CART
Demonstrate action-reaction pairs in a dramatic way Read More
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C5-20: PUTT PUTT STEAM BOAT
Demonstrate action-reaction using an intriguing device.
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C5-31: AIR TRACK - SAILING UPWIND
Illustrate sailing upwind Read More
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C5-32: SAILING UPWIND - HAIRDRYER AND SAILBOAT
Illustrate sailing upwind Read More
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C5-41: HOURGLASS PROBLEM
Demonstrate the solution to the famous "hourglass problem," or Galileo's water bucket
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C5-51: BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY
Demonstrate the science of ballistocardiography
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