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A1-03: DENSITY - VARIOUS BRICKS

Purpose: Demonstrate the concept of density

L7-16: GALILEOSCOPE

Purpose: Demonstrate optics of a telescope

C3-04: INERTIA - LEAD BRICK AND HAND

Purpose: Illustrates inertia of rest

N1-05 SPECTRA - VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE

Purpose: Demonstrates continuous spectrum

L4-23 BENDING OF LASER BEAM IN SUGAR SOLUTION

Category: L4 Refraction

Purpose: Demonstrates a medium with a continually varying index of refraction

L4-06 REFRACTION IN CLOUDY WATER

Category: L4 Refraction

Purpose: Demonstrates a light ray bends when it enters a different medium at an oblique angle.

K8-01 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE - MODEL

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

K2-62 CAN SMASHER - ELECTROMAGNETIC

Purpose: Blasts a soda can into two pieces using electromagnetism

J1-24 ELECTROSTATIC HAIR RAISING

Purpose: Demonstrates electrostatic repulsion

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

H2-41 DOPPLER BALL

Purpose: Demonstrates Doppler effect

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

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

D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS

Purpose: Illustrates conservation of angular momentum

C5-14 ROCKET TRIKE

Purpose: Demonstrate Newton's third law of motion
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