Oscillations
D2-42: MOMENT OF INERTIA -TORSIONAL CHAIR AND BOARD
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrate moment of inertia using the torsional chair.
D2-13: RACING PENDULA
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrate in a counter-intuitive way the effect of moment of inertia on rotational acceleration.
B4-02: HOOKE'S LAW - COMPRESSING A SPRING
Category: B4 Elasticity
Purpose:
Demonstrate Hooke's law for a spring under compression.
D1-65: YO-YO
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Illustrate transformation between various forms of energy and to perform yo-yo tricks.
D1-64: MAXWELL PENDULUM - SMALL
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrate transformations between gravitational potential energy and rotational kinetic energy.
D1-63: MAXWELL PENDULUM - LARGE
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrate transformations between gravitational potential energy and rotational kinetic energy.
C8-03: GALILEO'S PENDULUM
Category: C8 Mechanical Energy and Power
Purpose:
Demonstrate conservation of energy in a simple system.
G4-11: SOAP FILM OSCILLATIONS
Category: G4 Mechanical Waves - Two Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves in a two-dimensional medium.
C1-13: AIR TRACK - REDUCED MASS
Category: C1 Center of Mass Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate the change in frequency for two-body oscillations.
C1-12: AIR TRACK - CENTER OF MASS OF COUPLED GLIDERS
Category: C1 Center of Mass Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate uniform motion of the center of mass of an oscillating system.
C1-11: AIR TRACK - CENTER OF MASS PENDULUM
Category: C1 Center of Mass Motion
Purpose:
Show uniform motion of the center of mass of a vibrating pendulum/glider system.
D5-13: FOCAULT PENDULUM - MODEL
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Model the Foucault pendulum
G2-07: PSYCHOACOUSTIC VIBRATION TRANSDUCER
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Challenge your students to recognize pseudoscience while illustrating resonance
G2-21 COUPLED PENDULA
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrates coupling of motion between two pendula of the same length
G2-01 MASS ON SPRING - HAND HELD
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrates resonance and phase shift at resonance
G1-52 STRINGLESS PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates an example of SHM
G1-33 MASSES AND SPRINGS WITH SPIDER
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Compares frequencies of various mass-spring combinations
G1-15 PENDULA WITH 4 TO 1 LENGTH RATIO
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Shows that period of a simple pendulum is proportional to the square root of its length
G1-14 PENDULA WITH DIFFERENT MASSES
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates independence of a simple pendulum's period with mass of the bob.
G1-11 COMPARISON OF SHM AND UCM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates the relationship between simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion.