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F2-23: BUOYANCY PARADOX - INVERTED BLOCK
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-22: BUOYANCY PARADOX - ACCELERATED FRAME
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate dramatically the concept of buoyancy.
F2-10: BUOYANT BUBBLES
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy and diffusion in an interesting way.
F2-04: BUOYANCY - SPHERE AND WATER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Challenge the students' thinking about the buoyant force by considering the question: "Will a round object, without a flat top and bottom surface, experience a buoyant force, as does a cylinder?"
F2-03: CARTESIAN DIVER - EXPLICIT VERSION
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate explicitly how a cartesian diver works by showing how the water enters the diver when the pressure in the cylinder is increased.
N3-41: SPLITTING OF SPECTRUM INTO COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Show complementary colors by removing a band from the white light spectrum.
N3-33: MAXWELL'S EXPERIMENT - THREE-COLOR MIXING
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Demonstrate three-color mixing with positive colors.
N3-31: COLOR SEPARATION TRANSPARENCIES
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Illustrate color mixing of negative color transparencies.
F1-21: LIPLESS STRAW
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate the role of atmospheric pressure in the operation of a drinking straw.
F1-15: PRESSURE GLOBE
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
To illustrate several interesting phenomena related to air pressure
F1-14: PISTON DIAMETER VS TRAVEL - WORKING MODEL
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Show that with an incompressible fluid the bigger piston moves more slowly than the smaller piston.
D5-24: ROTATING PENDULA - LENGTH VS. HEIGHT
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Show that pendula of different length suspended from the same point rotating at the same angular speed rise to the same vertical height.
D5-23: ROTATING BEAD ON LOOP
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Demonstrate the presence of a "critical parameter" which determines the dynamic behavior of a simple physical system.
D5-22: ROTATING PENDULUM
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Demonstrate the presence of a "critical parameter" which determines the dynamic behavior of a simple physical system.
D5-21: BALL ROLLING ON ROTATING DISC
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Show that a sphere rolling on a rotating disc will move in circles.
F1-13: CONSTANT WATER PRESSURE
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate a mechanism which produces a constant water pressure.
F1-12: PASCAL'S LAW - COILED TUBE PARADOX
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Illustrate Pascal's law in a dramatic way.
D5-12: CORIOLIS EFFECT - WATER JET
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Model the Coriolis effect.
D5-11: CORIOLIS EFFECT - BALL ON ROTATING PLATFORM
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Illustrate the Coriolis effect.
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C8-03: GALILEO'S PENDULUM
Demonstrate conservation of energy in a simple system.
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C8-04 HILL TRACK
Demonstrates conservation of energy Read More
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C8-05: CONSERVATION OF ENERGY IN VERTICAL PROJECTILE
Show the relation between initial velocity and height of a vertical projectile.
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C8-06 PILE DRIVER
Illustrates gravitational potential energy converting into kinetic energy converting into work Read More
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C8-11 INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL ENERGY - SPRING-COUPLED SUPERBALLS
Shows that when energy disappears from the center of mass motion it may be converted into internal energy Read More
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C8-12: JUMPING MASSES WITH INTERNAL SPRINGS
Demonstrate conversion of internal energy of a spring into kinetic energy and then gravitational potential energy.
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C8-13: BUNGEE JUMPER MODEL
Determine the minimum value of the spring constant of a bungee rope to ensure a safe jump.
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C8-14 JUMPING CLAMP
Demonstrates mechanical potential energy transforming into kinetic energy Read More
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C8-21: ROCK AND WASTE BASKET
Demonstrate conservation of energy in a humorous way.
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C8-22: ENERGY CONVERSION - SUPERBALL AND SOUNDING BOARD
Show transformation of energy from one form to another.
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C8-23: WORK DONE BY PUSHING ON WALL
Illustrates that the wall and the floor do no work.
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C8-31: POWER - EXERCISE CYCLE
Measure human work.
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C8-32: POWER - CLIMBING LADDER
A simple method for illustrating power and the unit of the horsepower.
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C8-33: POWER - USING GRAVITY
Demonstrate mechanical power.
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C8-34: POWER - INSTRUCTOR DRAGGING CONCRETE BLOCK
Demonstrate power. Read More
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