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E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate beaming pattern of pulsars and pulsed binary X-ray sources.
E2-49: PULSAR MODEL - RADIOWAVES
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show the changing field pattern from a rotating dipole.
E2-48: NON-TWINKLING PLANET
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate why a planet does not "twinkle" like a star.
E2-47: TWINKLING STAR
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show how air currents cause the "twinkling" of a star.
E2-46: ECLIPSING BINARY STAR MODEL - SPHERES
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate the orbits of stars in an eclipsing binary.
E2-45: ECLIPSING BINARY STAR MODEL - LIGHTS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show how we view a rotating binary star.
E2-44: BINARY STAR MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate the orbital motion of a binary star system.
E2-43: ROTATING STAR FIELD
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show the apparent motion of the night sky.
E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Demonstrates how density stratification (differentiation) in interior of planets occurs.
E2-24: UMBRA AND PENUMBRA - COLOR FILTERS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Identify the source of penumbra regions.
E2-23: UMBRA AND PENUMBRA - EXTENDED SOURCE
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Show umbra and penumbra with an extended source, as in an eclipse.
E2-11: SOLAR PLASMA MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Mass driver and ring heater show coronal holes and coronal heating.
E2-03: CRATER FORMATION MODEL
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate how a crater forms as a result of an impact or a blast from below.
E1-21: GRAVITATIONAL LENS OPTICAL MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrate optical characteristics of a gravitational lens.
E1-12: MARBLE IN GLASS BOWL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrate orbits in a gravitational potential well.
E1-01: CAVENDISH EXPERIMENT - MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Aid in describing the Cavendish experiment.
C7-51: BALLISTIC PENDULUM - PELLET GUN
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Determine the speed of an air gun pellet using a ballistic pendulum.
C7-43: AIR TABLE - SMALL - COLLISIONS OF PUCKS
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Demonstrate collisions of pucks on an air table in rooms not accessible by the large air table.
C7-25: SUPERBALL, VACUUM MUD AND WOOD BLOCK COLLISIONS
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Show that a larger impulse is imparted by an elastic collision.
C7-21: ENERGY AND MOMENTUM - COLLISION AND PROJECTILE
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Illustrate conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.
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G2-01 MASS ON SPRING - HAND HELD
Demonstrates resonance and phase shift at resonance
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G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion. Read More
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G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator. Read More
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G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations. Read More
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G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator. Read More
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G2-06: FRAHM'S FREQUENCY METER
Check the 60 Hz line voltage frequency. Read More
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G2-07: PSYCHOACOUSTIC VIBRATION TRANSDUCER
Trick your students while illustrating resonance
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G2-08: DRIVEN NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR
Demonstrate amplitude "jumps" and resonance hysteresis in Duffing's equation. Read More
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G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency. Read More
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G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency. Read More
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G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Demonstrate driven resonance. Read More
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G2-21 COUPLED PENDULA
Demonstrates coupling of motion between two pendula of the same length
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G2-22: BAR-COUPLED PENDULA
Demonstrate a coupling resonance and to show normal modes. Read More
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G2-23: SPRING-COUPLED PHYSICAL PENDULA
Demonstrate resonance and normal modes. Read More
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G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Illustrate mechanical resonance. Read More
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G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Illustrate a complex resonance system. Read More
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G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders. Read More
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G2-27: COUPLED SERIES MASSES HANGING ON SPRINGS
Illustrate coupled oscillations and normal modes. Read More
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G2-28: COUPLED PENDULA WITH VARIABLE DRIVER
Show that the maximum coupling occurs between pendula of the same length. Read More
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G2-41: WILBERFORCE PENDULUM
Demonstrate a linear coupling resonance and normal modes. Read More
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G2-42: ELASTIC PENDULUM
Demonstrate a non-linear coupling resonance and stable fixed points. Read More
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