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F2-21 REACTION TO BUOYANT FORCE

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Demonstrates the reaction force using a liquid.

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.

E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL

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

D5-01 TIPPE TOP

Purpose: Gyroscopic effect examples

D4-03: BICYCLE WHEEL GYROSCOPE ON PIVOT

Category: D4 Gyroscopes

Purpose: Demonstrates gyroscopic precession and nutation

D3-05 ROTATING CHAIR AND BICYCLE WHEEL

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D3-02: MASS ON STRING - ORBITS WITH VARYING RADIUS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D3-01 MASSES SLIDING ON ROTATING CROSSARM

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D2-02: Miscellaneous Rolling Bodies On Inclined Plane

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

D1-61: Rolling versus Sliding

Purpose: Applies conservation of energy to a rolling 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

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

C8-04 HILL TRACK

Purpose: Demonstrates conservation of energy

C7-17 SUPERBALL

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Illustrates nearly elastic collisions

C7-15 COLLISIONS OF BALLS - 3 TO 1 MASS RATIO

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Shows velocity multiplication in colliding balls
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