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ASTR 100

E2-73: AUDIOTAPE 18 MIN - SOUNDS FROM SPACE

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Tape of signals from several early artificial satellites.

E2-72: AUDIOTAPE 14 MIN - NRAO PULSAR

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: To listen to a pulsar

E2-71: MILLISECOND PULSAR

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: To "hear" the signal from a pulsar.
I5-21: HEATING AIR BY COMPRESSION

I5-21: HEATING AIR BY COMPRESSION

Category: I5 Laws of Thermodynamics

Purpose: Demonstrate heating air by compression.
I4-51: SUBLIMATION OF DRY ICE - PROJECTION

I4-51: SUBLIMATION OF DRY ICE - PROJECTION

Category: I4 Changes of State

Purpose: Demonstrate sublimation of carbon dioxide (dry ice) from a solid into a gas.
I4-17: AIR BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN

I4-17: AIR BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN

Category: I4 Changes of State

Purpose: Demonstrate dramatically that the volume of vapor is greater than the volume of the same amount of liquid.
K8-51: MICROWAVE OVEN

K8-51: MICROWAVE OVEN

Category: K8 Electromagnetic Waves and Sources

Purpose: Demonstrate operation and experimentation with a microwave oven.
I1-61: DUST EXPLOSION

I1-61: DUST EXPLOSION

Category: I1 Thermal Properties of Matter

Purpose: Produce a dust explosion.
I1-51: RUBBER AT LN TEMPERATURE

I1-51: RUBBER AT LN TEMPERATURE

Category: I1 Thermal Properties of Matter

Purpose: Demonstrate how a normally elastic material at room temperature becomes rigid at very low temperatures.
I1-19: LAVA LAMP

I1-19: LAVA LAMP

Category: I1 Thermal Properties of Matter

Purpose: Demonstrate differential thermal expansion between two liquids, and to take us all back to the 1960s.
J6-03: ELECTROMAGNET WITH JUNK - WITHOUT CORE

J6-03: ELECTROMAGNET WITH JUNK - WITHOUT CORE

Category: J6 Electromagnets

Purpose: Demonstrate electromagnetism.
F2-12: HOT AIR BALLOON

F2-12: HOT AIR BALLOON

Category: F2 Buoyancy

Purpose: Show that hot air is less dense than cold air by operating a hot air balloon.
N3-22: SUBTRACTIVE FILTERS AND THEIR SPECTRA

N3-22: SUBTRACTIVE FILTERS AND THEIR SPECTRA

Category: N3 Color

Purpose: Compare colors and spectra of negative filters.
D1-55: ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS

D1-55: ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS

Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics

Purpose: Demonstrate "centrifugal reaction" and to indicate why the earth is oblate.
E2-63: EXPANDING UNIVERSE

E2-63: EXPANDING UNIVERSE

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrate the concept of the expansion of the universe.
E2-61: GALAXY MODEL

E2-61: GALAXY MODEL

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrate our galaxy.
E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS

E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrate beaming pattern of pulsars and pulsed binary X-ray sources.
E2-37: PLATONIC SOLIDS AND KEPLER

E2-37: PLATONIC SOLIDS AND KEPLER

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Visualize the Platonic solids and Kepler's dream for using them to explain planetary orbits.
E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS

E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrates how density stratification (differentiation) in interior of planets occurs.
E2-33: RETROGRADE MOTION

E2-33: RETROGRADE MOTION

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Demonstrate the observation of another planet as seen from the earth.
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