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F4-01: VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS
Category: F4 Fluid in Motion
Purpose:
Compare the viscosities of water and mineral oil.
F3-31: WATER BELL
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in an artistic manner.
G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.
F3-21: SURFACE TENSION - ALCOHOL AND WATER IN SAND
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate the difference between the surface tension in water and in alcohol.
F3-06: SURFACE TENSION - NEEDLE ON WATER
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate surface tension by floating a needle on water.
G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate a complex resonance system.
G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate mechanical resonance.
G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate driven resonance.
G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.
F3-03: SURFACE TENSION - SOAP BUBBLES
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in a perhaps counterintuitive way using soap bubbles.
G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.
G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.
F2-41: DENSITY - SLOPE OF MASS VS VOLUME GRAPH
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Determine the density of water.
G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.
F2-32: FLOATING SQUARE BAR
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy and the orientation in which a long square bar floats in a very dramatic way.
F2-26: BUOYANCY PARADOX - BALL IN TWO LIQUIDS
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy with a counterintuitive element.
F2-25: BALANCE PARADOX - BUOYANCY WITH CROSSOVER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Present buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
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I4-01: PVT PHASE DIAGRAMS FOR CO2 AND H2O
Three-dimensional PVT phase diagram models. Read More
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I4-02: PVT SURFACE - TRANSPARENT
Illustrate aspects of phase transitions. Read More
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I4-03: LATENT HEAT - ICE TO WATER TO STEAM
Illustrate aspects of phase transitions. Read More
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I4-11: BOILING AT REDUCED PRESSURE
Demonstrate that water boils at a lower temperature under reduced pressure. Read More
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I4-12: BOILING WATER BY PUMPING
Demonstrate water boiling under reduced pressure. Read More
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I4-13: CHANGE OF STATE OF LN - POPPING CAN LID
Show the increase in volume which accompanies the transition from liquid to gaseous nitrogen. Read More
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I4-14: CHANGE OF STATE WITH BANG
Show the increase in volume which accompanies the transition from liquid to gaseous nitrogen. Read More
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I4-15 CONDENSATION OF STEAM - GALLON CAN COLLAPSE
Illustrates forces produced by the pressure drop when steam condenses into water
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I4-16: DRINKING BIRD
Illustrates forces produced by the pressure drop when steam condenses into water
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I4-17: AIR BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN
Demonstrate dramatically that the volume of vapor is greater than the volume of the same amount of liquid. Read More
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I4-18: PULSE GLASS
Illustrate change of phase between liquid and vapor in an confined fluid. Read More
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I4-19: CONDENSATION OF STEAM - SODA CAN COLLAPSE
Surprising demonstration using condensation of steam. Read More
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I4-31 ICE BOMB
Demonstrates forces created by freezing water
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I4-32: FREEZING WATER BY PUMPING
Freeze water by reducing the ambient pressure. Read More
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I4-33: CRYOPHORUS
Illustrate freezing caused by cooling by evaporation. Read More
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I4-34: HAND WARMER
Demonstrate the heat of fusion. Read More
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I4-35: LOWERING THE FREEZING POINT OF WATER USING SALT
Demonstrate that the freezing point of water can be reduced by putting ice in a salt water bath. Read More
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I4-36: REGELATION - ICE UNDER PRESSURE
Demonstrate regelation. Read More
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I4-51: SUBLIMATION OF DRY ICE - PROJECTION
Demonstrate sublimation of carbon dioxide (dry ice) from a solid into a gas. Read More
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I4-52: CARBON DIOXIDE BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN
Demonstrate condensation sublimation. Read More
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I4-61: BINARY PHASE TRANSITION - CRITICAL OPALESCENCE
Show the behavior of a binary fluid as it passes through the critical temperature. Read More
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