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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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L6-01: OPTICAL BOARD - CONVERGING SPHERICAL LENS
Show focusing of a spherical (cylindrical) convex lens Read More
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L6-02: OPTICAL BOARD - CIRCULAR SLAB
Show focusing of a circular lens Read More
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L6-03: OPTICAL BOARD - HYPERBOLIC LENS
Show focusing of a hyperbolic lens Read More
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L6-04: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - REAL IMAGE POS LENS
Use principal rays to locate a real image produced by a convex lens Read More
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L6-05: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - VIRTUAL IMAGE POS LENS
Demonstrate that a lens focuses light Read More
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L6-06: MULTIPLE PINHOLES AND LENS RECOMBINATION
Demonstrate that a lens focuses light Read More
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L6-07: MICROWAVES - LENS
Demonstrate that a paraffin lens can focus microwaves Read More
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L6-08: REAL IMAGE OF CONVERGING LENS - LIGHT BULB
Show the real image of a converging lens Read More
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L6-09: REAL IMAGE OF CONVERGING LENS
Show the systematics of real image formation by a converging lens Read More
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L6-10: IMAGE LOCATION WITH TV CAMERA - LENS
Locate both real and virtual images of a convex lens Read More
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L6-11: OPTICAL BOARD - DEPTH OF FIELD
Illustrate the idea of depth of field of a (camera) lens, and to locate the near and far points Read More
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L6-12 MAGNIFYING LENS IN WATER
Shows that focal properties of a lens depend on the medium in which the lens is located Read More
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L6-13: OPTICAL BOARD - PARALLEL RAY FOCUS
Demonstrate focusing of parallel rays in a counterintuitive way Read More
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L6-14: IMAGE OF CONVEX LENS - WITH AND WITHOUT BAFFLE
Encourage thought regarding how an image is formed Read More
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L6-21: OPTICAL BOARD - DIVERGING SPHERICAL LENS
Determine the focal point of a concave lens Read More
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L6-22: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - VIRTUAL IMAGE NEG LENS
Use the three principal rays to locate the virtual image of a diverging lens Read More
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L6-31: STRING MODEL - SPHERICAL ABERRATION
Illustrate light rays for spherical aberration Read More
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L6-32: OPTICAL BOARD - SPHERICAL ABERRATION IN LENS
Demonstrate spherical aberration using rays Read More
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L6-33: STRING MODEL - CHROMATIC ABERRATION
Illustrate rays for chromatic aberration Read More
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L6-34: OPTICAL BOARD - CHROMATIC ABERRATION IN LENS
Show chromatic aberration in a convex lens Read More
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L6-35: CHROMATIC ABERRATION - POINT SOURCE AND 20 CM LENS
Show the effect of chromatic aberration in a lens Read More
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L6-36: STRING MODEL - ASTIGMATISM
Illustrate rays for on-axis astigmatism Read More
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L6-37: ASTIGMATISM
Demonstrate off-axis astigmatism with a spherical lens. Read More
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L6-38: COMA
Illustrate coma Read More
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L6-39: DISTORTION - PINCUSHION AND BARREL WITH 2 IRISES
Show pincushion and barrel distortion Read More
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L6-40: DISTORTION - PINCUSHION AND BARREL
Fast and simple way to show pincushion and barrel distortion Read More
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L6-41: DISTORTED IMAGE - PINCUSHION AND BARREL
A slightly more complicated but better way to show pincushion and barrel distortion Read More
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L6-42: DISTORTION AND CORRECTION
Illustrate pincushion and barrel distortion and correction thereof Read More
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L6-43: DISTORTED PERSPECTIVE
Distortion by a simple lens Read More
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L6-51: OPTICAL BOARD - FRESNEL LENS
Demonstrate construction of a Fresnel lens Read More
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L6-52: FRESNEL LENSES - MISCELLANEOUS
To allow individual experience with plastic Fresnel lenses Read More
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L6-53: FRESNEL LENS MAGNIFIER
Demonstrate magnification by a thin plastic Fresnel lens Read More
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L6-54: OPTICALLY PROGRAMMED TRAFFIC SIGNAL - MODEL
Illustrate the optics of an optically programmed traffic signal Read More
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L6-55: FRESNEL FLASHLIGHT
Show an application of the Fresnel lens Read More
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L6-56: FRESNEL SPOTLIGHT
Illustrate how Fresnel lenses are used in theater spotlights Read More
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L6-71: OPTICAL DISC
Demonstrate a number of ray optics phenomena Read More
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L6-91: ANAMORPHIC LENS
Show application of anamorphic lenses to wide-screen movies Read More
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