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F4-01: VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS
Category: F4 Fluid in Motion
Purpose:
Compare the viscosities of water and mineral oil.
F3-31: WATER BELL
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in an artistic manner.
G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.
F3-21: SURFACE TENSION - ALCOHOL AND WATER IN SAND
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate the difference between the surface tension in water and in alcohol.
F3-06: SURFACE TENSION - NEEDLE ON WATER
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate surface tension by floating a needle on water.
G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate a complex resonance system.
G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate mechanical resonance.
G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate driven resonance.
G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.
F3-03: SURFACE TENSION - SOAP BUBBLES
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in a perhaps counterintuitive way using soap bubbles.
G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.
G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.
F2-41: DENSITY - SLOPE OF MASS VS VOLUME GRAPH
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Determine the density of water.
G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.
F2-32: FLOATING SQUARE BAR
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy and the orientation in which a long square bar floats in a very dramatic way.
F2-26: BUOYANCY PARADOX - BALL IN TWO LIQUIDS
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy with a counterintuitive element.
F2-25: BALANCE PARADOX - BUOYANCY WITH CROSSOVER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Present buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
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D2-01 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object Read More
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D2-02: Miscellaneous Rolling Bodies On Inclined Plane
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object Read More
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D2-03: CANS ON INCLINED PLANE - WITH AND WITHOUT WATER
Illustrate the effect of moment of inertia on rolling acceleration.
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D2-04: MOMENT OF INERTIA RODS
Demonstrate dynamic effects of the center of mass and moment of inertia
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D2-05: DUMBBELL - VARIABLE MOMENT OF INERTIA
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
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D2-11: HINGED STICK AND FALLING BALL
Application of the rotational analog of Newton's second law.
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D2-12: TOPPLING CHIMNEY
Demonstrate how a toppling chimney breaks up.
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D2-13: RACING PENDULA
Illustrate in a counter-intuitive way the effect of moment of inertia on rotational acceleration.
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D2-21: CENTER OF PERCUSSION - BAT AND MALLET
Demonstrate the center of percussion using a baseball bat.
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D2-31 OBERBECK CROSS
Illustrates rotational analog of Newton's second law of motion Read More
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D2-32: AIR TABLE - LINEAR AND ANGULAR ACCEL OF A DISC
Illustrate the accelerating disc problem.
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D2-41: MOMENTS OF INERTIA ABOUT THREE PRINCIPAL AXES
Illustrate the three principal axes of a thin aluminum plate.
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D2-42: MOMENT OF INERTIA -TORSIONAL CHAIR AND BOARD
Demonstrate moment of inertia using the torsional chair.
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D2-43: MOMENT OF INERTIA - TORSIONAL CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
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D2-51: BICYCLE WHEEL PENDULUM
Demonstrate the Parallel Axis Theorem.
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