ASTR 100
E2-73: AUDIOTAPE 18 MIN - SOUNDS FROM SPACE
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Tape of signals from several early artificial satellites.
I5-21: HEATING AIR BY COMPRESSION
Category: I5 Laws of Thermodynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrate heating air by compression.
I4-51: SUBLIMATION OF DRY ICE - PROJECTION
Category: I4 Changes of State
Purpose:
Demonstrate sublimation of carbon dioxide (dry ice) from a solid into a gas.
I4-17: AIR BALLOON ON LIQUID NITROGEN
Category: I4 Changes of State
Purpose:
Demonstrate dramatically that the volume of vapor is greater than the volume of the same amount of liquid.
K8-51: MICROWAVE OVEN
Category: K8 Electromagnetic Waves and Sources
Purpose:
Demonstrate operation and experimentation with a microwave oven.
I1-51: RUBBER AT LN TEMPERATURE
Category: I1 Thermal Properties of Matter
Purpose:
Demonstrate how a normally elastic material at room temperature becomes rigid at very low temperatures.
I1-19: LAVA LAMP
Category: I1 Thermal Properties of Matter
Purpose:
Demonstrate differential thermal expansion between two liquids, and to take us all back to the 1960s.
J6-03: ELECTROMAGNET WITH JUNK - WITHOUT CORE
Category: J6 Electromagnets
Purpose:
Demonstrate electromagnetism.
F2-12: HOT AIR BALLOON
Category: F2 Buoyancy
Purpose:
Show that hot air is less dense than cold air by operating a hot air balloon.
N3-22: SUBTRACTIVE FILTERS AND THEIR SPECTRA
Category: N3 Color
Purpose:
Compare colors and spectra of negative filters.
D1-55: ROTATING ELASTIC RINGS
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrate "centrifugal reaction" and to indicate why the earth is oblate.
E2-63: EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Demonstrate the concept of the expansion of the universe.
E2-50: PULSAR MODEL - FLASHLIGHTS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Illustrate beaming pattern of pulsars and pulsed binary X-ray sources.
E2-37: PLATONIC SOLIDS AND KEPLER
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Visualize the Platonic solids and Kepler's dream for using them to explain planetary orbits.
E2-36: DENSITY STRATIFICATION - FORMATION OF PLANETS
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Demonstrates how density stratification (differentiation) in interior of planets occurs.
E2-33: RETROGRADE MOTION
Category: E2 Astronomy
Purpose:
Demonstrate the observation of another planet as seen from the earth.
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N2-02: DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - THREE SOURCES - EXPENDABLE GRATINGS
Demonstrate diffraction spectrum of white light along with line spectra of mercury and cadmium. Read More
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N2-03: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF SODIUM - EXPENDABLE GRATINGS
High-pressure sodium lamp shows both emission and absorption line spectra
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N2-04: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF SODIUM - PROJECTION
Projected line diffraction spectrum of high-pressure sodium lamp.
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N2-05 DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - MISCELLANEOUS TUBES
Shows several atomic and molecular line spectra
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N2-06: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF MERCURY - SUPERPRESSURE LAMP
Projected line diffraction spectrum of high-pressure mercury lamp.
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N2-07: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF HYDROGEN - HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS
Individual viewing of the Balmer series of hydrogen.
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N2-08: SPECTROSCOPE - HYDROGEN SPECTRUM
Individual viewing of the hydrogen spectrum using a student spectrometer.
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N2-09: SPECTROPHOTOMETER
Show how a spectrophotometer works.
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N2-21: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF MERCURY - SUPERPRESSURE LAMP
Show a line spectrum with superposed continuum.
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N2-22: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF SODIUM
Show the spectrum of sodium, but does not resolve the yellow doublet.
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N2-31: ABSORPTION SPECTRUM OF CHLOROPHYLL
Demonstrate absorption spectrum of chlorophyll.
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N2-32: ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF GLASS
Demonstrate absorption spectrum of glass doped with various chemicals.
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