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F4-01: VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS

Category: F4 Fluid in Motion

Purpose: Compare the viscosities of water and mineral oil.

F2-13: BOUYANCY - EXPANDING BALLOON CONUNDRUM

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Conundrum involving weight of an expanding balloon.

F2-07: BUOYANCY - PEPSI AND DIET PEPSI

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Show the difference in density between soft drinks with and without sugar.

F2-04: BUOYANCY - SPHERE AND WATER

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Challenge the students' thinking about the buoyant force by considering the question: "Will a round object, without a flat top and bottom surface, experience a buoyant force, as does a cylinder?"

F1-11: HYDRAULIC PRESS

Purpose: Demonstrate dramatically Pascal's Law and the large forces attainable using hydraulic systems.

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.

F1-02: FLUID PRESSURE VS DEPTH - ANEROID GAUGE

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

D2-05: DUMBBELL - VARIABLE MOMENT OF INERTIA

Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.

B4-14: ELASTIC LIMIT OF WIRE

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate the variation in tensile strength with wire diameter.

B4-12: ELASTIC LIMIT OF SOLDER SPRING

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate the elastic limit for an inherently inelastic object.

B4-11: ELASTIC LIMIT OF RUBBER BAND

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate Hooke's law and elastic limit.

B4-04: SPRING AND STRING THING

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Illustrate series and parallel springs in a counterintuitive way.

D1-32: TRAJECTORY FROM CIRCULAR ORBIT

Purpose: Show that the instantaneous velocity of an object executing uniform circular motion is tangent to the circle.

C7-16: HAPPY AND UNHAPPY BALLS

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Illustrate coefficient of restitution.

C7-13: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - GRADUATED MASSES

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Demonstrate how the velocity is multiplied by a sequence of collisions between balls of decreasing mass.

C7-03: AIR TRACK - SCATTERING WITHOUT CONTACT

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Show that elastic scattering can occur between two objects without actual physical contact between the objects.

C8-32: POWER - CLIMBING LADDER

Purpose: A simple method for illustrating power and the unit of the horsepower.

C8-13: BUNGEE JUMPER MODEL

Purpose: Determine the minimum value of the spring constant of a bungee rope to ensure a safe jump.
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