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K8-01 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - MODEL

Purpose: Shows the relationship between the electric and magnetic field vectors in a plane-polarized traveling electromagnetic wave

J5-01 MAGNETIC FIELD OF A BAR MAGNET

Category: J5 Magnetostatics

Purpose: Visualize the magnetic field around a bar magnet

J1-26 VAN DE GRAAFF - REPULSION OF PIE PANS

Purpose: Demonstrates electrostatic repulsion

J1-24 ELECTROSTATIC HAIR RAISING

Purpose: Demonstrates electrostatic repulsion

J1-06: FUN-FLY-STICK

Purpose: Demonstrates electrostatic fundamentals

I6-01 GAS PRESSURE - MODEL

Purpose: Illustrates the molecular nature of gas pressure

I5-22 FIRE SYRINGE

Purpose: Demonstrates heating air by compression

I2-04 WIEN'S LAW OF THERMAL RADIATION

Purpose: Shows that higher temperature blackbodies radiate with shorter wavelengths

H2-42 DOPPLER EFFECT - TUNING FORK ON STRING

Purpose: Demonstrates Doppler effect

H2-41 DOPPLER BALL

Purpose: Demonstrates Doppler effect

H1-02 SPEAKER AND CANDLE

Category: H1 Nature of Sound

Purpose: Demontrates longitudinal behavior of sound waves

H1-01 BELL IN VACUUM

Category: H1 Nature of Sound

Purpose: Demonstrates sound wave requirement for a medium

G4-02 RIPPLE TANK

Purpose: Illustrates wave phenomena water surface

G3-28 SUSPENDED SLINKY

Purpose: Shows longitudinal and transverse traveling waves & standing waves

E2-22 UMBRA AND PENUMBRA

Category: E2 Astronomy

Purpose: Illustrates shadow umbra and penumbra

E1-11: POTENTIAL WELL -MODEL

Purpose: Demonstrates motion of planets or satellites in an inverse square gravitational field

D3-05 ROTATING CHAIR AND BICYCLE WHEEL

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

D3-02: MASS ON STRING - ORBITS WITH VARYING RADIUS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
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