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H3-03: REFLECTION OF PULSES IN TUBE
Category: H3 Standing Sound Waves
Purpose:
Demonstrate the phase of pulses reflected from open ends and closed ends of a tube.
H3-02: STANDING SOUND WAVES - REFLECTION
Category: H3 Standing Sound Waves
Purpose:
Demonstrate the origin of standing waves from one source and its reflection.
H3-01: STANDING SOUND WAVES - TWO SOURCES
Category: H3 Standing Sound Waves
Purpose:
Demonstrate the origin of standing waves from two identical sources.
H2-28: FOURIER SYNTHESIZER - ADDITION OF WAVES
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrate addition of two sine waves with variable phase difference.
H2-25: QUINCKE'S INTERFERENCE TUBES
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrate interference of sound waves in a perhaps surprising way.
H2-24: AUDIBLE YOUNG'S EXPERIMENT - MIC AND SCOPE
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrate interference of sound with two coherent sound sources in a quantitative way.
H2-03: ACOUSTIC RADAR
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Illustrate how RADAR and SONAR work
H2-01: FOCUSING OF SOUND WITH CONCAVE REFLECTORS
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrate how sound waves can be focused by concave reflectors.
G3-52: ROPE WAVE GENERATOR - ROPE TENSION VS WAVELENGTH
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Observe the change in wavelength of a vibrating rope as the tension is varied.
G3-42: TORSIONAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate wave phenomena such as traveling waves, standing waves, and reflection of waves.
G3-25: SLINKY ON LECTURE TABLE - IMPEDANCE MISMATCH
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show partial reflections and dependence of wave speed on density of the medium.
G3-23: TRANSVERSE WAVES ON A LONG SPRING - FREE END
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show reflections at a free end.
G3-11: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - RESONANCE ABSORPTION
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate resonance absorption of wave energy by a mass-on-spring system.
G3-10: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - BRANCHING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate branching and recombining with two wave machines in parallel.
G3-09: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - FREQUENCY FILTERING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate frequency filtering through a "filter" consisting of four weighted crossarms and the interference from partial reflections they produce.
G3-08: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - FABREY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate the mechanical analog of the optical Fabrey-Perot interferometer.
G3-07: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - TAPERED TRANSFORMER
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Useful for obtaining a reasonably good impedance match between the two large segments of the Shive machine.
G3-05: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - PARTIAL REFLECTIONS
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show that a wave will be partially reflected at a point where the impedance changes.
G3-06: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - IMPEDANCE MATCHING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show that no reflection occurs when the impedance of the load (absorber at right) matches the impedance of the wave machine.
G3-04: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - STANDING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves.
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M7-01: MICROWAVES - POLARIZATION
Demonstrate polarization of microwaves and the show how microwaves are polarized. Read More
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M7-02: RADIOWAVES - POLARIZATION
Demonstrate polarization of radio waves due to antenna orit\entation. Read More
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M7-03 TWO POLAROIDS AND LIGHT SOURCE
Demonstrates polarization of light
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M7-04: MALUS' LAW
Demonstrate how the intensity changes in a polarized and analyzed light beam. Read More
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M7-05: ROPE AND COOKIE COOLERS
Demonstrate the concept of polarization of a transverse wave. Read More
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M7-06: ROPE WAVE GENERATOR - POLARIZATION
Illustrate polarization of a rope wave. Read More
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M7-07: THREE CROSSED POLAROIDS - E FIELD COMPONENTS
Demonstrate the vector nature of an electric field by crossing polarizers. Read More
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M7-08: MICROWAVES - MALUS' LAW
Demonstrate Malus' law using microwaves. Read More
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M7-11: OPTICAL BOARD - BREWSTER'S ANGLE
Demonstrate polarization of an internally reflected light beam, and to demonstrate Brewster's angle. Read More
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M7-12: BREWSTER'S ANGLE - POLAROID AND TWO REFLECTORS
Demonstrate polarization by reflection. Read More
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M7-13: BREWSTER'S ANGLE - SEMICIRCULAR LUCITE SLAB
Demonstrate polarization at Brewster's angle. Read More
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M7-14: BREWSTER'S WINDOW
Demonstrate polarization by reflection. Read More
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M7-15: LINEAR AND ELLIP POLARIZATION - REFL FROM DIEL AND COND
Demonstrate polarization effects in reflections from dielectric and conducting surfaces. Read More
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M7-16: REFLECTION OF POLARIZED LIGHT FROM CONDUCTOR AND DIELECTRIC
Show polarization effects for light reflection off various surfaces, and to demonstrate the Brewster angle. Read More
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M7-17: REFLECTION OF LIGHT FROM DIELECTRIC AND CONDUCTOR
Demonstrate how light is polarized when it reflects from dielectric surfaces, and remains unpolarized after reflecting from conducting surfaces. Read More
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M7-18: POLAROID SUNGLASSES
Demonstrate how polaroid sunglasses work using a pair of clip-on polaroid sunglasses. Read More
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M7-31 TYNDALL'S EXPERIMENT - COLLOIDAL SUNSET
Colloidal sunset demonstration. Read More
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M7-32: TRANSVERSE NATURE OF LIGHT
Demonstrate scattering of light and polarization of scattered light. Read More
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M7-33: DEPOLARIZATION BY SCATTERING - WAX PAPER
Demonstrate how scattering can depolarize light. Read More
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M7-34: ROTATION OF POLARIZATION - POLAROID AND WAX PAPER
Demonstrate two ways to change the polarization of light. Read More
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M7-41: SCATTERING OF LASER BEAM
Show scattering of light. Read More
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