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F2-23: BUOYANCY PARADOX - INVERTED BLOCK
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-22: BUOYANCY PARADOX - ACCELERATED FRAME
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate dramatically the concept of buoyancy.
F2-10: BUOYANT BUBBLES
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy and diffusion in an interesting way.
F2-04: BUOYANCY - SPHERE AND WATER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Challenge the students' thinking about the buoyant force by considering the question: "Will a round object, without a flat top and bottom surface, experience a buoyant force, as does a cylinder?"
F2-03: CARTESIAN DIVER - EXPLICIT VERSION
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate explicitly how a cartesian diver works by showing how the water enters the diver when the pressure in the cylinder is increased.
N3-41: SPLITTING OF SPECTRUM INTO COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Show complementary colors by removing a band from the white light spectrum.
N3-33: MAXWELL'S EXPERIMENT - THREE-COLOR MIXING
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Demonstrate three-color mixing with positive colors.
N3-31: COLOR SEPARATION TRANSPARENCIES
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Illustrate color mixing of negative color transparencies.
F1-21: LIPLESS STRAW
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate the role of atmospheric pressure in the operation of a drinking straw.
F1-15: PRESSURE GLOBE
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
To illustrate several interesting phenomena related to air pressure
F1-14: PISTON DIAMETER VS TRAVEL - WORKING MODEL
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Show that with an incompressible fluid the bigger piston moves more slowly than the smaller piston.
D5-24: ROTATING PENDULA - LENGTH VS. HEIGHT
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Show that pendula of different length suspended from the same point rotating at the same angular speed rise to the same vertical height.
D5-23: ROTATING BEAD ON LOOP
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Demonstrate the presence of a "critical parameter" which determines the dynamic behavior of a simple physical system.
D5-22: ROTATING PENDULUM
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Demonstrate the presence of a "critical parameter" which determines the dynamic behavior of a simple physical system.
D5-21: BALL ROLLING ON ROTATING DISC
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Show that a sphere rolling on a rotating disc will move in circles.
F1-13: CONSTANT WATER PRESSURE
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Demonstrate a mechanism which produces a constant water pressure.
F1-12: PASCAL'S LAW - COILED TUBE PARADOX
Category: F1 Pressure in Static Fluids
Purpose:
Illustrate Pascal's law in a dramatic way.
D5-12: CORIOLIS EFFECT - WATER JET
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Model the Coriolis effect.
D5-11: CORIOLIS EFFECT - BALL ON ROTATING PLATFORM
Category: D5 Rotational Esoterica
Purpose:
Illustrate the Coriolis effect.
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K8-01 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - MODEL
Shows the relationship between the electric and magnetic field vectors in a plane-polarized traveling electromagnetic wave
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K8-03 LIGHT NANOSECOND
Shows the distance light travels in one nanosecond
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K8-04: SPEED OF LIGHT
Measure the speed of light Read More
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K8-05: ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE WAVE MODEL
Illustrate the geometry of a polarized electromagnetic plane wave Read More
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K8-11: MICROWAVES - STANDING WAVES
Demonstrate microwave standing waves Read More
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K8-12: RADIOWAVES - STANDING WAVES
Demonstrate standing waves using radio waves Read More
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K8-13: RADIOWAVES - LECHER WIRE STANDING WAVES
Illustrate standing electromagnetic waves in a high-impedance transmission line Read More
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K8-14: RADIOWAVES - STANDING WAVES IN AN ANTENNA
Show standing waves in a dipole antenna Read More
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K8-21: MICROWAVES - WAVEGUIDES
See what microwave waveguide components look like and to discuss their functions Read More
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K8-22: MICROWAVES - TUBULAR WAVEGUIDE
Demonstrate transmission of microwaves in a tubular "waveguide" Read More
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K8-31: TRANSMISSION LINE SAMPLE
Show a large coaxial cable transmission line Read More
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K8-32: PULSES IN TRANSMISSION LINES
Demonstrate the reflection of pulses in terminated and unterminated transmission lines and to determine the speed of an electromagnetic wave… Read More
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K8-33: NANOSECOND CABLES
Cables which delay a signal by a fixed time interval Read More
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K8-41: HERTZIAN DIPOLES
Show the shape and polarization of the radiation field around a dipole antenna Read More
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K8-42: RADIOWAVES - ENERGY AND DIPOLE PATTERN
Demonstrates transmission of energy in electromagnetic waves. Shows the radiation pattern of the dipole antenna
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K8-43: RADIOWAVES - FREQ MEASUREMENT WITH OSCILLOSCOPE
Experimentally determine the frequency of the radiowave transmitter Read More
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K8-44: RADIOWAVES - COUPLING OF WAVES
Illustrate inductive coupling using radio waves Read More
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K8-45 RADIO WAVES FROM SPARK
Demonstrates that a spark contains radio waves
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K8-46: Radio Waves & Faraday Cage
Demonstrate that a conductive cage blocks transmission of RF waves. Read More
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K8-51: MICROWAVE OVEN
Demonstrate operation and experimentation with a microwave oven Read More
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K8-52: MICROWAVE MAGNETRON
Show students what the magnetron tube from a typical microwave oven looks like Read More
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