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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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N1-01: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
Demonstrate continuous spectrum. Read More
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N1-03: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - WATER PRISM
Demonstrate continuous spectrum using water as the dispersing medium. Read More
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N1-05 SPECTRA - VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE
Demonstrates continuous spectrum
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N1-06: POLYPRISM SPECTRA
Demonstrate continuous spectra with several different types of glass. Read More
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N1-07: VARIATION OF SPECTRUM WITH LAMP INTENSITY
Demonstrate continuous spectrum as the brightness of the source changes Read More
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N1-08: GOETHE'S PUZZLE
Show the view of a slide through a prism and argue about color theory. Read More
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N1-09: COMPLEMENTARY SPECTRUM
Display the spectrum of a "negative" slit. Read More
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N1-11: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
Demonstrate continuous spectrum. Read More
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N1-12: DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - GRATING ON OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Very simple white light diffraction spectrum. Read More
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N1-13: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - PORTABLE
Individual observation of white light spectrum. Read More
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N1-14: REFLECTION GRATING - LARGE
Show a spectrum from a small bright source. Read More
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N1-21: COLOR SEPARATION AND RECOMBINATION BY PRISMS
Show how a prism can recombine previously dispersed white light. Read More
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N1-22: OPTICAL BOARD - PRISMS - SEPARATE AND RECOMBINE
Separate white light into its component colors with a prism and use an identical prism to recombine the light. Read More
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N1-23: FINE RESOLUTION OF SPECTRUM USING TWO PRISMS
Increase the dispersion in a white light spectrum by adding a second prism. Read More
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N1-31: SUN DOG - MODEL
Show how a "sun dog" is formed. Read More
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N1-32: ICE CRYSTALS - PAPER MODELS
Illustrate how two types of ice crystals formed high in the atmosphere float downward through the air with preferred orientations. Read More
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N1-41: RAINDROP RAY MODEL
Illustrate formation of a rainbow. Read More
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N1-42: RAINDROP MECHANICAL MODEL
Illustrate rays in formation of a rainbow. Read More
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N1-43: RAINBOW - GLASS BEAD MODEL
Observe an almost complete circular rainbow formed by glass beads. Read More
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N1-44: OPTICAL BOARD - RAINBOW
Demonstrates internal reflection and dispersion of light
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N1-45: RAINBOW - WATER FLASK
Demonstrate a large angle rainbow. Read More
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N1-51: SPECTROMETER - HAND HELD
Demonstrate spectra individually. Read More
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N1-61: REFRACTION OF LIGHT IN DIAMOND
Show how a diamond produces colors from white light. Read More
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