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L3-33: VANITY MIRROR

Category: L3 Curved Mirrors

Purpose: Show the image produced by a cocave mirror.

B4-33: EGG CRUSHER

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Show that an egg can support unexpectedly high forces due to its curved shape.

L3-25: IMAGE LOCATION WITH TV CAMERA - CONCAVE MIRROR

Category: L3 Curved Mirrors

Purpose: Locate the image position for a concave mirror.

B4-21: DEFLECTION OF BEAM - OPTICAL LEVER

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate the small deflection of an aluminum beam due to weighting between supports.

B4-14: ELASTIC LIMIT OF WIRE

Category: B4 Elasticity

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

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.

B4-02: HOOKE'S LAW - COMPRESSING A SPRING

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate Hooke's law for a spring under compression.

D1-83: SPOOL

Purpose: Illustrate a counterintuitive problem in rotational dynamics.

D1-82: ROLLING FRICTION

Purpose: Show the direction of the frictional force when a rolling object is accelerated.

D1-64: MAXWELL PENDULUM - SMALL

Purpose: Demonstrate transformations between gravitational potential energy and rotational kinetic energy.

D1-63: MAXWELL PENDULUM - LARGE

Purpose: Demonstrate transformations between gravitational potential energy and rotational kinetic energy.

D1-55: ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS

Purpose: Demonstrate "centrifugal reaction" and to indicate why the earth is oblate.

D1-42: ROTATING WATER BUCKET WITH SPONGE

Purpose: Illustrate centripetal force and centrifugal reaction with a trick.

D1-40: CENTRIPETAL FORCE ON ROTATING RUBBER BAND

Purpose: Demonstrate centripetal force and centrifugal reaction.

D1-39: PENNY AND COAT HANGER

Purpose: Demonstrate centripetal force and centrifugal reaction in a dramatic way.

D1-31: TRAJECTORY FROM SPIRAL

Purpose: Show that forces are required to create circular motion.

D1-30: TRAJECTORY FROM CIRCULAR ORBIT - OVERHEAD PROJECTOR

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

D1-21: ANGULAR VELOCITY - OBERBECK CROSS

Purpose: Measure the angular velocity of a rotating object.

E2-61: GALAXY MODEL

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrate our galaxy.
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