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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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L5-01: OPTICAL BOARD - TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
Demonstrate total internal reflection and the critical angle Read More
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L5-02: TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION IN LONG TANK
Demonstrate total internal reflection of a laser light Read More
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L5-03: FISH IN TANK - TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
Illustrate total internal reflection Read More
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L5-04: MICROWAVES - TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
Demonstrate total internal reflection of microwaves in a paraffin prism Read More
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L5-05: IMAGE INVERSION BY PRISM
Demonstrate that a right angle prism can invert an image Read More
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L5-11 LASER WATERFALL
Demonstrate total internal reflection of a laser beam in a water jet Read More
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L5-12 PLEXIGLASS SPIRAL
Demonstrate total internal reflection Read More
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L5-13: PLEXIGLASS SPIRAL WITH LASER
Demonstrate total internal reflection with laser light Read More
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L5-14: LASER AND PLEXIGLASS TUBE
Illustrate total internal reflection in a colorful manner Read More
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L5-21: FIBER OPTICS ARRAY
Demonstrate fiber optics in an exciting way Read More
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L5-22: FIBER OPTICS ARRAY - PROJECTION
Demonstrate fiber optics in an interesting way Read More
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L5-23 FIBER OPTICS TREE
Artistic application of fiber optics Read More
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L5-24: FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION LINE
Demonstrate transmission of laser light by a real fiber optics communication line Read More
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L5-34: FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION - MICROWAVES
Demonstrate frustrated total internal reflection using microwaves Read More
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