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J2-33: TESLA COIL - PORTABLE
Purpose:
Easy-to-use high-voltage device for use in various demonstrations or just to draw a nice spark.
J2-01: WIMSHURST MACHINE
Purpose:
Generate high electrostatic potentials.
J1-13: ELECTROSTATIC INDUCTION
Category: J1 Electrostatic Charge and Force
Purpose:
Illustrate charging by induction.
L6-08: REAL IMAGE OF CONVERGING LENS - LIGHT BULB
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show the real image of a converging lens.
H2-55: BEATS AND RESONANCE - TUNING BOXES
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Illustrate beats and resonance.
H2-26: PHASE REVERSAL BETWEEN STEREO SPEAKERS - MUSIC
Category: H2 Wave Properties of Sound
Purpose:
Demonstrate interference of sound in a dramatic way.
G3-29: SUSPENDED SLINKY - PORTABLE
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show longitudinal and transverse traveling waves and standing waves.
G3-27: AIR TABLE - TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate transverse and longitudinal waves using an air table.
G3-26: AIR TRACK - LONGITUDINAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate longitudinal waves with a series of spring-coupled air track gliders.
G3-24: SLINKY ON LECTURE TABLE - TRAVELING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show travelling waves.
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.
G3-04: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - STANDING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves.
G3-03: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - REFLECTION OF PULSES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate reflection of pulses from fixed ends and free ends.
G3-02: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - SUPERPOSITION OF PULSES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate constructive and destructive interference using pulses.
L5-13: PLEXIGLASS SPIRAL WITH LASER
Category: L5 Total Internal Reflection
Purpose:
Demonstrate total internal reflection with laser light.
G1-17: PENDULUM WITH LARGE-ANGLE OSCILLATION - PORTABLE
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Illustrate large-angle pendular oscillations and the 360 degree pendulum.
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.
G2-05: AIR TRACK - DRIVEN AND DAMPED OSCILLATIONS
Category: G2 Resonance and Coupled Oscillations
Purpose:
Illustrate the behavior of a driven and damped oscillator.
M2-03: LASER DIFFRACTION - POISSON'S BRIGHT SPOT
Category: M2 Diffraction - Circular
Purpose:
Demonstrate the Poisson (or Arago) bright spot.
G4-14: SPOUTING BOWL
Category: G4 Mechanical Waves - Two Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate resonance in a dramatic 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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