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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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P2-01: PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT AND PLANCK'S CONSTANT
Demonstrate the frequency dependence of the photoelectric effect and determine the value of Planck's constant. Read More
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P2-02: PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT IN ZINC - ARC LAMP
Demonstrate the emission of photoelectrons. Read More
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P2-03: PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT IN ZINC - UV LAMP
Demonstrate the emission of photoelectrons. Read More
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P2-04 PHOTOELECTRIC PROPELLER
Demonstrates solar cells
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P2-05: PHOTO-RESISTOR RELAY
Demonstrate operation of a photoresistor. Read More
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P2-06 PHOTOELECTRIC TRUCK
Demonstrates solar cells
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P2-11: INTERFERENCE OF PHOTONS
Demonstrate two-slit interference of single photons. Read More
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P2-12: X-RAY DIFFRACTION MODEL
Show analog between diffraction of light by a two-dimensional grating and diffraction of x-rays by a single crystal. Read More
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P2-13: ELECTRON DIFFRACTION
Demonstrates the wave properties of electrons
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P2-14: ELECTRON DIFFRACTION MODEL
Analog to diffraction of electrons or x-rays by a powdered crystal. Read More
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P2-15: WAVE PACKETS - OSCILLATORS
Show that wave packets begin to form when sinusoidal oscillations with similar frequencies are combined. Read More
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P2-20: FLUORESCENCE WITH LASER AND PYLON
Demonstrates change in light color due to flourescence Read More
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P2-21 BLACK BODY MODEL
Demonstrates that a cavity is blacker than any surface -- making it a good approximation for an ideal black body
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P2-22 BICHSEL BOXES - BLACK BODY RADIATION
Demonstrates Wien's law of radiation
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P2-24: GIANT-LIGHT BULB
Demonstrate color and intensity changes of blackbody radiation with temperature. Read More
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P2-41: POTENTIAL WELL - HILL TRACK MODEL
Illustrate the concept of a quantum mechanical potential well. Read More
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P2-42: PARTICLE IN A BOX - 1D - QM INTRODUCTION
Model behavior of a quantum mechanical one-dimensional particle in a box. Read More
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P2-43: CLASSICAL HARMONIC OSCILLATOR - QM INTRODUCTION
Demonstrate the simple behavior of a classical particle moving in a quadratic field. Read More
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P2-51: OPTICAL ANALOG OF QM STATES AND OPERATORS
Use properties of optical devices as analogs to illustrate quantum mechanical states and operators. Read More
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P2-61: DIRAC STRING TRICK
Illustration of a topological property of the group of rotations. Read More
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