Oscillations
H1-27: SPEED OF SOUND - LISSAJOUS FIGURES
Category: H1 Nature of Sound
Purpose:
Measurement of the speed of sound in air using Lissajous figures.
H4-18: LISSAJOUS FIGURES WITH SOUND
Category: H4 Music
Purpose:
Demonstrate the relation between "consonance" (musical intervals) and frequency ratios.
H4-14: LISSAJOUS FIGURES - VOICE
Category: H4 Music
Purpose:
Provide a Lissajous type display from a single vocal source.
H4-12: LISSAJOUS FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT
Category: H4 Music
Purpose:
Show how frequencies can be matched using Lissajous figures.
G3-46: STANDING WAVES IN A WIRE LOOP
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Illustrate circular standing waves; to use as a model of stationary states in atoms corresponding to standing waves of electrons in Bohr orbits.
G3-45: RESONANCE OF WIRES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show standing waves in heavy wires fixed at one end.
G3-41: WAVE MODELS - PROJECTION
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves, travelling waves, and superposition of waves.
G3-11: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - RESONANCE ABSORPTION
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate resonance absorption of wave energy by a mass-on-spring system.
G2-42: ELASTIC PENDULUM
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate a non-linear coupling resonance and stable fixed points.
G2-41: WILBERFORCE PENDULUM
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate a linear coupling resonance and normal modes.
G2-28: COUPLED PENDULA WITH VARIABLE DRIVER
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Show that the maximum coupling occurs between pendula of the same length.
G2-27: COUPLED SERIES MASSES HANGING ON SPRINGS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate coupled oscillations and normal modes.
G1-83: PENDULUM WAVES - COMMERCIAL VERSION
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Create waves in a very dramatic way using a series of carefully adjusted pendula of various lengths.
G1-82: PENDULUM WAVES
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Create waves in a very dramatic way using a series of fifteen carefully adjusted independent pendula.
G1-81: OUIJA WINDMILL
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate a combination of simultaneous orthogonal oscillations.
G1-74: LISSAJOUS FIGURES - LASER AND LOUDSPEAKER
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Show Lissajous figures created by music to form a laser show.
G1-73: LISSAJOUS FIGURES - FOURIER SYNTHESIZER
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Show stable Lissajous figures.
G1-71: LISSAJOUS FIGURES - SAND PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrate Lissajous figures.
G1-59: BIFILAR PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate a system with two pendular modes of oscillation.
G1-58: LOADED PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Analog to the longitudinal motion of a particle in a particle accelerator driven by a sinusoidal accelerating potential.
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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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