PHYS131
A1-31: VOLUME MEASURE DEMONSTRATION
Category: A1 Basic Materials and Measurement
Purpose:
Illustrate metric volume units
A1-03: DENSITY - VARIOUS BRICKS
Category: A1 Basic Materials and Measurement
Purpose:
Demonstrate the concept of density
F3-11: SURFACE TENSION - CAPILLARY TUBES
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in capillary tubes
C2-21 PROJECTILES DROPPED AND SHOT
Category: C2 Kinematics in One and Two Dimensions
Purpose:
Demonstrate the independence of horizontal and vertical components of motion
J1-26 VAN DE GRAAFF - REPULSION OF PIE PANS
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates electrostatic repulsion
J1-24 ELECTROSTATIC HAIR RAISING
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates electrostatic repulsion
J1-21 ELECTROSTATIC ATTRAC AND REPULS - CHARGED CYLINDERS
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates electrostatic attraction and repulsion
J1-11 ELECTROPHORUS
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates an electrophorus
J1-06: FUN-FLY-STICK
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates electrostatic fundamentals
J1-01 TRIBOELECTRICITY - CHARGING BY FRICTION
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Demonstrates "charging by friction"
I6-01 GAS PRESSURE - MODEL
Purpose:
Illustrates the molecular nature of gas pressure
I5-22 FIRE SYRINGE
Category: I5 Laws of Thermodynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates heating air by compression
I2-22 THERMODYNAMICS BY TOUCH
Category: I2 Transfer of Heat
Purpose:
Demonstrates that touching a material tells something about its conductivity, not necessarily its temperature
G1-60 CHAOS - TWO BIFILAR PENDULA
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrates chaotic motion
G1-52 STRINGLESS PENDULUM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates an example of SHM
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.
F1-06 WATER SEEKS ITS OWN LEVEL
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Shows that pressure is dependent on depth, not shape of container
E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL
Category: E1 Gravitation and Orbits
Purpose:
Demonstrates motion of planets or satellites in an inverse square gravitational field
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I6-01 GAS PRESSURE - MODEL
Illustrates the molecular nature of gas pressure
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I6-02: NITROGEN DIAMETER AND MEAN FREE PATH
Experimentally determine the diameter of the nitrogen molecule and to determine the order of magnitude of the mean free path… Read More
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I6-03 EQUIPARTITION OF ENERGY
Demonstrates equipartition of energy
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I6-11: BROWNIAN MOTION WITH TV
Demonstrates equipartition of energy
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I6-13: AIR TABLE - MODEL OF BROWNIAN MOTION
Simple model of Brownian motion. Read More
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I6-21 GAS DIFFUSION - MODEL
Models gas diffusion through a small hole
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I6-22: IODINE DIFFUSION TUBES
Demonstrate diffusion. Read More
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I6-23 DIFFUSION - FOOD COLOR IN WATER
Demonstrates diffusion
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I6-24: DIFFUSION VELOCITY
Show that the diffusion velocity is proportional to the RMS molecular velocity. Read More
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I6-25: DIFFUSION - DISTRIBUTION OF PING PONG BALLS
Demonstrate on a macroscopic scale using ping pong balls how random molecular motion causes substances to diffuse. Read More
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I6-31: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - BROWNIAN MOTION
Model Brownian motion. Read More
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I6-32: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - RANDOM MOTION IN GASES
Model random molecular motion. Read More
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I6-33: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - GAS PRESSURE
Model gas pressure. Read More
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I6-34: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - TEMPERATURE OF A GAS
Model gas pressure. Read More
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I6-35: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - DIFFUSION
Model gas diffusion. Read More
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I6-36: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - AVOGADRO'S HYPOTHESIS
Help justify Avogadro's hypothesis using a model. Read More
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I6-37: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - VAN DER WALLS FORCES
Introduce the concept of attractive force between molecules. Read More
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I6-38: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - BOYLE'S LAW
Model Boyle's law. Read More
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I6-39: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - CHARLES' LAW
Model Charles' law. Read More
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I6-40: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - SOLIDS
Model the behavior of solids. Read More
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I6-41: MOLECULAR MOTION DEMO - LIQUIDS
Model the behavior of liquids. Read More
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I6-51 ENTROPY - SORTING MARBLES
Demonstrates that increasing entropy requires less energy than decreasing entropy
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I6-52: ENTROPY - FOUR BALLS IN GAS DIFFUSION MODEL
Demonstrate that an ordered state is statistically possible. Read More
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I6-61: MAXWELL'S DEMON
Example of a "Maxwell Demon." Read More
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