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H1-01 BELL IN VACUUM
Category: H1 Nature of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrates sound wave requirement for a medium
G3-51 ROPE WAVE GENERATOR - FREQUENCY VS. WAVELENGTH
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Shows the relationship between frequency and wavelength for fixed tension cord
G3-28 SUSPENDED SLINKY
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Shows longitudinal and transverse traveling waves & standing waves
G3-01 SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - TRAVELING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrates traveling waves
G1-14 PENDULA WITH DIFFERENT MASSES
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates independence of a simple pendulum's period with mass of the bob.
G1-11 COMPARISON OF SHM AND UCM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates the relationship between simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion.
G1-01 EXAMPLES OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrates simple harmonic motion
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.
F1-01 FLUID PRESSURE VS. DEPTH
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrates that fluid pressure increases linearly with depth and is isotropic.
D3-05 ROTATING CHAIR AND BICYCLE WHEEL
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D2-01 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object
D1-61: Rolling versus Sliding
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Applies conservation of energy to a rolling object
D1-53 LOOP-THE-LOOP
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates centripetal force and conservation of energy in a rotating object
D1-41 ROTATING WATER BUCKET
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates centripetal force and centrifugal reaction
C8-04 HILL TRACK
Category: C8 Mechanical Energy and Power
Purpose:
Demonstrates conservation of energy
C7-18 COLLISIONS OF BALLS - ASTROBLASTER
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Shows velocity multiplication in colliding balls
C7-11: COLLISIONS OF BALLS - EQUAL MASSES
Category: C7 Collisions
Purpose:
Demonstrates conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum in multiple elastic collisions
C6-01 INCLINED PLANE - FRICTION BOX AND WEIGHTS
Category: C6 Friction
Purpose:
Shows that the coefficient of friction does not depend upon the mass of the object although the frictional force does.
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H2-01: FOCUSING OF SOUND WITH CONCAVE REFLECTORS
Demonstrate how sound waves can be focused by concave reflectors. Read More
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H2-02: PARABOLIC MICROPHONE
Show what a parabolic microphone is and to demonstrate its sensitivity individually. Read More
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H2-03: ACOUSTIC RADAR
Illustrate how RADAR and SONAR work Read More
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H2-11: SOUND LENS
Demonstrate focusing of sound by refraction in a sound lens Read More
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H2-21 AUDIBLE YOUNG'S EXPERIMENT - GROUP LISTENING
Demonstrates interference of sound waves with two coherent sources
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H2-22: INTERFERENCE - TRANSPARENCIES
An optical analog to the interference pattern from two identical sound sources. Read More
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H2-24: AUDIBLE YOUNG'S EXPERIMENT - MIC AND SCOPE
Demonstrate interference of sound with two coherent sound sources in a quantitative way. Read More
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H2-25: QUINCKE'S INTERFERENCE TUBES
Demonstrate interference of sound waves in a perhaps surprising way. Read More
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H2-26: PHASE REVERSAL BETWEEN STEREO SPEAKERS - MUSIC
Demonstrate interference of sound in a dramatic way. Read More
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H2-27: PHASE REVERSAL BETWEEN STEREO SPEAKERS - OSCILLATOR
Dramatically demonstrate interference between two identical sources. Read More
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H2-28: FOURIER SYNTHESIZER - ADDITION OF WAVES
Demonstrate addition of two sine waves with variable phase difference. Read More
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H2-31: ACOUSTIC COLLIMATOR
Demonstrate the effect of frequency on diffraction of sound. Read More
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H2-32: SPEAKER WITH BAFFLE
Demonstrates diffraction and interference of sound waves
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H2-33: SPEAKER AND EXPONENTIAL HORN
Demonstrate the effect of an exponential horn enclosure. Read More
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H2-41 DOPPLER BALL
Demonstrates Doppler effect
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H2-42 DOPPLER EFFECT - TUNING FORK ON STRING
Demonstrates Doppler effect
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H2-51 BEATS - AUDIO OSCILLATORS, SPEAKER & OSCILLOSCOPE
Hear audio beats and see their wave forms on an oscilloscope
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H2-52: BEATS AND RESONANCE - TUNING BARS
Demonstrate beats, and to demonstrate resonance between two identical tuning bar resonators. Read More
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H2-53 BEATS - AUDIO OSCILLATORS AND SPEAKERS
Hear beats
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H2-54: BEATS - MOIRE PATTERN MODEL
Model for beats between mistuned audio oscillators. Read More
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H2-55: BEATS AND RESONANCE - TUNING BOXES
Illustrate beats and resonance. Read More
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