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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F2-01 ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE
Demonstrates the buoyant force on a body submerged in a fluid to be equal to the weight of the displaced… Read More
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F2-02: CARTESIAN DIVER
Demonstrate a variety of fluid mechanics phenomena, including the compressibility of a gas, the incompressibility of water, Boyle's law, Pascal's… Read More
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F2-03: CARTESIAN DIVER - EXPLICIT VERSION
Demonstrate explicitly how a Cartesian diver works by showing how the water enters the diver when the pressure in the… Read More
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F2-04: BUOYANCY - SPHERE AND WATER
Challenge the students' thinking about the buoyant force by considering the question: "Will a round object, without a flat top… Read More
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F2-05 BUOYANCY - BOAT AND ROCK
Illustrates buoyancy
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F2-06: BUOYANCY - SINKING BOAT
Illustrates buoyancy Read More
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F2-07: BUOYANCY - PEPSI AND DIET PEPSI
Show the difference in density between soft drinks with and without sugar. Read More
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F2-08: BUOYANCY - BATTLESHIP IN BATHTUB
Illustrate Archimedes' Law in a counterintuitive manner. Read More
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F2-10: BUOYANT BUBBLES
Demonstrate buoyancy and diffusion in an interesting way. Read More
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F2-11: HYDROMETER
Measure the density of a liquid. Read More
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F2-12: HOT AIR BALLOON
Show that hot air is less dense than cold air by operating a hot air balloon. Read More
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F2-13: BOUYANCY - EXPANDING BALLOON CONUNDRUM
Conundrum involving weight of an expanding balloon. Read More
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F2-21 REACTION TO BUOYANT FORCE
Demonstrates the reaction force using a liquid. Read More
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F2-22: BUOYANCY PARADOX - ACCELERATED FRAME
Illustrate dramatically the concept of buoyancy. Read More
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F2-23: BUOYANCY PARADOX - INVERTED BLOCK
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way. Read More
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F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way. Read More
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F2-25: BALANCE PARADOX - BUOYANCY WITH CROSSOVER
Present buoyancy in a paradoxical way. Read More
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F2-26: BUOYANCY PARADOX - BALL IN TWO LIQUIDS
Demonstrate buoyancy with a counterintuitive element. Read More
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F2-27: Buoyancy Paradox - Two Spheres
Buoyancy of two spheres on a balance Read More
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F2-31: BUOYANT BALLS IN BEANS
Illustrate buoyancy in a surprising way. Read More
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F2-32: FLOATING SQUARE BAR
Illustrate buoyancy and the orientation in which a long square bar floats in a very dramatic way. Read More
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F2-41: DENSITY - SLOPE OF MASS VS VOLUME GRAPH
Determine the density of water. Read More
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