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I1-11 THERMAL EXPANSION - BALL AND HOLE

Purpose: Illustrates thermal expansion

F5-21 VENTURI TUBE WITH MANOMETERS

Purpose: Illustrates the venturi effect

F2-21 REACTION TO BUOYANT FORCE

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Demonstrates the reaction force using a liquid.

F2-05 BUOYANCY - BOAT AND ROCK

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Illustrates buoyancy

F2-01 ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Demonstrates the buoyant force on a body submerged in a fluid to be equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.

F1-06 WATER SEEKS ITS OWN LEVEL

Purpose: Shows that pressure is dependent on depth, not shape of container

F1-01 FLUID PRESSURE VS. DEPTH

Purpose: Demonstrates that fluid pressure increases linearly with depth and is isotropic.

D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D2-31 OBERBECK CROSS

Purpose: Illustrates rotational analog of Newton's second law of motion

D2-02: Miscellaneous Rolling Bodies On Inclined Plane

Purpose: Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object

D2-01 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE

Purpose: Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object

D1-53 LOOP-THE-LOOP

Purpose: Demonstrates centripetal force and conservation of energy in a rotating object

D1-51 BANKED CURVE MODEL

Purpose: Aid in explaining banked turns

D1-35 CENTRIPETAL FORCE - ROTATING MASS

Purpose: Measures the required centripetal force for an object to move with uniform circular motion

D1-34 ROTATING MASS ON SPRING

Purpose: Illustrates centripetal force

D1-33 ROTATING MASS ON STRING

Purpose: Illustrates centripetal force and that instantaenous velocity is tangent to the circular path

C8-14 JUMPING CLAMP

Purpose: Demonstrates mechanical potential energy transforming into kinetic energy

C8-11 INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL ENERGY - SPRING-COUPLED SUPERBALLS

Purpose: Shows that when energy disappears from the center of mass motion it may be converted into internal energy

C8-06 PILE DRIVER

Purpose: Illustrates gravitational potential energy converting into kinetic energy converitng into work

C8-04 HILL TRACK

Purpose: Demonstrates conservation of energy
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