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G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS

Purpose: Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.

G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.

Purpose: Illustrate a complex resonance system.

G2-23: SPRING-COUPLED PHYSICAL PENDULA

Purpose: Demonstrate resonance and normal modes.

G2-22: BAR-COUPLED PENDULA

Purpose: Demonstrate a coupling resonance and to show normal modes.

G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS

Purpose: Demonstrate driven resonance.

G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN

Purpose: Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.

G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR

Purpose: Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.

G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS

Purpose: Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.

G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS

Purpose: Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.

G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION

Purpose: Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.

G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE

Purpose: Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.

F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL

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.

D5-24: ROTATING PENDULA - LENGTH VS. HEIGHT

Purpose: Show that pendula of different length suspended from the same point rotating at the same angular speed rise to the same vertical height.

D5-22: ROTATING PENDULUM

Purpose: Demonstrate the presence of a "critical parameter" which determines the dynamic behavior of a simple physical system.

D3-32: KEYWHIP

Purpose: Demonstrate angular momentum conservation in a surprising way.

D3-12: SWING MODEL

Purpose: Model the pumping of a swing using conservation of angular momentum.

D2-51: BICYCLE WHEEL PENDULUM

Purpose: Demonstrate the Parallel Axis Theorem.

D2-43: MOMENT OF INERTIA - TORSIONAL CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
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