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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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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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