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F1-05: DOES WATER SEEK ITS OWN LEVEL?

Purpose: A trick to challenge the students.

F1-04: EQUILIBRIUM TUBES

Purpose: Demonstrate that pressure is transmitted equally throughout a fluid.

F1-03: PASCAL'S VASES

Purpose: Demonstrate that pressure is dependent only on depth, and not on the shape of the container.

F1-02: FLUID PRESSURE VS DEPTH - ANEROID GAUGE

Purpose: Show water pressure versus depth with an aneroid gauge.

D3-41: AIR TABLE - RECTANGULAR PUCK COLLISIONS

Purpose: Qualitatively show conservation of angular momentum in collisions of a circular puck with a rectangular puck.

D3-32: KEYWHIP

Purpose: Demonstrate angular momentum conservation in a surprising way.

D4-24: GYROCOMPASS - MODEL

Category: D4 Gyroscopes

Purpose: Demonstrate how a gyrocompass works.

D3-12: SWING MODEL

Purpose: Model the pumping of a swing using conservation of angular momentum.

D3-06: ROTATING CHAIR - HELICOPTER MODEL

Purpose: Demonstrate conservation of angular momentum.

D3-04: ROTATING STOOL AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Demonstrate conservation of angular momentum.

D2-43: MOMENT OF INERTIA - TORSIONAL CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.

D2-42: MOMENT OF INERTIA -TORSIONAL CHAIR AND BOARD

Purpose: Demonstrate moment of inertia using the torsional chair.

D2-41: MOMENTS OF INERTIA ABOUT THREE PRINCIPAL AXES

Purpose: Illustrate the three principal axes of a thin aluminum plate.

D2-32: AIR TABLE - LINEAR AND ANGULAR ACCEL OF A DISC

Purpose: Illustrate the accelerating disc problem.

D2-21: CENTER OF PERCUSSION - BAT AND MALLET

Purpose: Demonstrate the center of percussion using a baseball bat.

D2-13: RACING PENDULA

Purpose: Illustrate in a counter-intuitive way the effect of moment of inertia on rotational acceleration.

D2-12: TOPPLING CHIMNEY

Purpose: Demonstrate how a toppling chimney breaks up.

D2-11: HINGED STICK AND FALLING BALL

Purpose: Application of the rotational analog of Newton's second law.

D2-05: DUMBBELL - VARIABLE MOMENT OF INERTIA

Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.

D2-03: CANS ON INCLINED PLANE - WITH AND WITHOUT WATER

Purpose: Illustrate the effect of moment of inertia on rolling acceleration.
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