Newton's Second Law
I2-42: FALLING CANDLE
Category: I2 Transfer of Heat
Purpose:
Demonstrate how a flame burns in the absence of normal convection.
G1-36: MASS ON SPRING WITH FORCE MEASUREMENT
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Display the time dependence of the force of a mass oscillating on a spring.
G1-18: PENDULUM WITH FORCE SCALE
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Show the tension in the string exerted by a swinging pendulum.
C4-61: ACCELERATION ON A SCALE
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate forces in an accelerating system.
C4-54: WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MAGNET AND KEEPER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate weightlessness in free fall.
C4-51: WEIGHTLESSNESS IN FREE FALL - MASS IN BEAKER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate weightlessness in free fall.
C4-43: TERMINAL VELOCITY - STACKED COFFEE FILTERS
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate terminal velocity quantitatively.
C4-42: TERMINAL VELOCITY - FEATHER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate terminal velocity.
C4-41: TERMINAL VELOCITY - BOTTLE IN TUBE
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
An easily observable terminal velocity experiment.
C4-32: FREE FALL IN VACUUM - DISK AND FEATHER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate that bodies of extremely different densities fall with equal acceleration in the absence of air friction.
C4-31: AIR TRACK - THE ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Experimentally determine the acceleration of gravity.
C4-23: ATWOOD MACHINE WITH HEAVY PULLEY
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate the affect of a heavy pulley on the Atwood Machine.
C4-22: HORIZONTAL ATWOOD MACHINE
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate the Horizontal Atwood Machine quantitatively.
C4-15: HELIUM BALLOON IN ACCELERATED BOX
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate the affect of density on acceleration in a counterintuitive way.
C4-14: AIR TRACK - ACCELEROMETER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate the behavior of a liquid accelerometer.
C4-13: ACCELEROMETER ON ROTATOR
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Show that the surface of a rotating liquid assumes a parabolic shape.
C4-12: ACCELEROMETER ON INCLINED PLANE
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a liquid accelerometer accelerating down an inclined plane.
C4-11: ACCELEROMETER - BALL IN WATER
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate the direction of acceleration for both linear and circular cases.
C4-03: ACCELERATION BY ITERATED BLOWS
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate the numerical technique by which a computer carries out integration of the equation a = F/m.
C4-01: AIR TRACK - NEWTON'S SECOND LAW
Category: C4 Second Law of Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate F = ma.