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F4-01: VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS
Category: F4 Fluid in Motion
Purpose:
Compare the viscosities of water and mineral oil.
F3-31: WATER BELL
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in an artistic manner.
G2-26: COUPLED AIR TRACK GLIDERS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate coupled oscillations and normal modes in a system of two identical coupled air track gliders.
F3-21: SURFACE TENSION - ALCOHOL AND WATER IN SAND
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate the difference between the surface tension in water and in alcohol.
F3-06: SURFACE TENSION - NEEDLE ON WATER
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Illustrate surface tension by floating a needle on water.
G2-25: COUPLED PENDULA - 1000:100:10:1 MASS RATIO.
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate a complex resonance system.
G2-24: COUPLED PENDULA - 100 TO 1 MASS RATIO
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate mechanical resonance.
G2-12: BARTON'S PENDULUMS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate driven resonance.
G2-11: RESONANT SAW BLADES - HAND DRIVEN
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Show that a mechanical oscillator responds with a maximum amplitude to its own resonant frequency.
F3-03: SURFACE TENSION - SOAP BUBBLES
Category: F3 Surface Tension
Purpose:
Demonstrate surface tension in a perhaps counterintuitive way using soap bubbles.
G2-09: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH SONAR
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Plot a graph of forced damped harmonic motion near the resonant frequency.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
G2-04: DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate damped harmonic oscillations.
G2-03: RESONANCE IN TORSIONAL PENDULUM - PROJECTION
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate quantitatively all aspects of the driven and damped oscillator.
F2-41: DENSITY - SLOPE OF MASS VS VOLUME GRAPH
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Determine the density of water.
G2-02: FORCED HARMONIC MOTION WITH DAMPING - LARGE
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Demonstrate and graph driven and damped harmonic motion.
F2-32: FLOATING SQUARE BAR
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy and the orientation in which a long square bar floats in a very dramatic way.
F2-26: BUOYANCY PARADOX - BALL IN TWO LIQUIDS
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Demonstrate buoyancy with a counterintuitive element.
F2-25: BALANCE PARADOX - BUOYANCY WITH CROSSOVER
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Present buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
F2-24: ACCELERATED BUOYANT BALL
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Illustrate buoyancy in a paradoxical way.
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L7-01: LIGHT METERS
Show light meters and maybe even use one Read More
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L7-02: FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER - CHALKBOARD MODEL
Illustrate how a focal plane shutter works Read More
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L7-03: SHUTTER SPEED OF A CAMERA
Measure the shutter speed of a camera Read More
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L7-04: DEPTH OF FIELD AND FIELD OF VIEW
Demonstrate depth of field as a function of aperture setting, and to demonstrate field of view as a function of… Read More
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L7-05: VIDEO CAMERA WITH VARIOUS LENSES
Demonstrate various lenses for a video camera Read More
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L7-11: OPTICAL BOARD - ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE
Model the optics of an astronomical telescope Read More
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L7-12: OPTICAL BOARD - TELEPHOTO LENS
Illustrate the location of the principal planes in a telephoto lens Read More
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L7-13: OPTICAL BOARD - GALILEAN TELESCOPE
Model the optics of a Galilean telescope Read More
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L7-14: OPTICAL BOARD - REFLECTING TELESCOPE
To illustrate rays in one type of reflecting telescope Read More
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L7-15: MICROSCOPE
Demonstrate how the optics of a microscope produces a magnified image Read More
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L7-16: GALILEOSCOPE
Show how the optics and lenses in a telescope work Read More
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L7-21: MAGNIFYING GLASS - TV
Illustrate how a magnifying glass works Read More
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L7-22: MICROSCOPE - TV
Illustrate how a microscope works Read More
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L7-23: ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE - TV
Illustrate how an astronomical telescope works Read More
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L7-24: TERRESTRIAL TELESCOPE - TV
Illustrate how a terrestrial telescope works Read More
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L7-25: GALILEAN TELESCOPE - TV
Illustrate how a Galilean telescope works Read More
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L7-31: PRINCIPAL PLANES
Illustrate principal planes of a compound lens system Read More
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L7-32: FIELD LENS
Show what a field lens does Read More
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L7-33: OVERHEAD PROJECTOR - DISSECTED
Show how an overhead projector works and to view its components Read More
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L7-34: SLIDE PROJECTOR - DISSECTED
Show how a slide projector works and to view its parts Read More
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L7-41: REAL IMAGE - MIRROR AND LENS
Determine the location of a real image in a complex lens-mirror system Read More
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L7-42: VIRTUAL IMAGE - MIRROR AND LENS
Calculate the position of a virtual image and the verify this by using parallax Read More
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L7-43: Telephoto Lens Model - Point Source
A model of the assembly and function of a telephoto lens attachment. Read More
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