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I6-01 GAS PRESSURE - MODEL

Purpose: Illustrates the molecular nature of gas pressure

I5-22 FIRE SYRINGE

Purpose: Demonstrates heating air by compression

I2-04 WIEN'S LAW OF THERMAL RADIATION

Purpose: Shows that higher temperature blackbodies radiate with shorter wavelengths

H2-41 DOPPLER BALL

Purpose: Demonstrates Doppler effect

H1-01 BELL IN VACUUM

Category: H1 Nature of Sound

Purpose: Demonstrates sound wave requirement for a medium

G4-02 RIPPLE TANK

Purpose: Illustrates wave phenomena water surface

E2-22 UMBRA AND PENUMBRA

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrates shadow umbra and penumbra

E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL

Purpose: Demonstrates motion of planets or satellites in an inverse square gravitational field

D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

C5-14 ROCKET TRIKE

Purpose: Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion

C5-13 WATER ROCKET

Purpose: Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion

C3-12 PENCIL AND PLYWOOD

Purpose: Dramatically demonstrate inertia

C3-02 INERTIA - TABLE CLOTH TRICK

Purpose: Dramatically demonstrate inertia
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