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PHYS161


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

D1-41 ROTATING WATER BUCKET

Purpose: Demonstrates centripetal force and centrifugal reaction

D1-35 CENTRIPETAL FORCE - ROTATING MASS

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

D1-01 STROBOSCOPE AND FAN

Purpose: Demonstrates rotational motion using stroboscope

C8-14 JUMPING CLAMP

Purpose: Demonstrates mechanical potential energy transforming into kinetic energy

C8-04 HILL TRACK

Purpose: Demonstrates conservation of energy

C7-17 SUPERBALL

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Illustrates nearly elastic collisions

C7-11: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - EQUAL MASSES

Category: C7 Collisions

Purpose: Demonstrates conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum in multiple elastic collisions

C6-02: INCLINED PLANE - FRICTION BLOCK

Category: C6 Friction

Purpose: Demonstrates that the coefficient of static friction is greater than the coefficient of sliding friction, and determines the coefficient of static friction.

C5-13 WATER ROCKET

Purpose: Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion

C4-21 ATWOOD MACHINE

Purpose: Illustrate the second law of motion. Experimentally determine the acceleration due to gravity.

C4-02 AIR TRACK - A eq F/M

Purpose: Illustrate the experimental basis for Newton's second law of motion

C3-02 INERTIA - TABLE CLOTH TRICK

Purpose: Dramatically demonstrate inertia

C2-22 MONKEY AND HUNTER

Purpose: Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion

C2-11 RACING BALLS

Purpose: Illustrate linear kinematics

C2-06 BALL DROP ON ROPE - EQUAL AND UNEQUAL INTERVALS

Purpose: Illustrate the geometrical effect of free fall

C2-01 AIR TRACK - CONSTANT VELOCITY AND UNIFORM ACCELERATION

Purpose: Demonstrate constant velocity and uniform acceleration with minimal friction

B4-01 HOOKE'S LAW

Category: B4 Elasticity

Purpose: Demonstrate the linear relationship between force and stretching for a simple spring.
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