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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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P4-01: Radiation Monitor (Geiger Counter)
Demonstrate radioactivity, the Geiger counter, and some differences between alpha, beta, and gamma radiation Read More
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P4-03: RADON DETECTION
Demonstrate that radioactive radon daughters are present in the air Read More
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P4-04: COSMIC RAYS
Demonstrate the existence of cosmic rays. Read More
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P4-05: PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE - LARGE
Show them what a large photomultiplier tube looks like. Read More
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P4-06 RADIOACTIVE CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Show some consumer products and naturally occurring materials that are weakly radioactive Read More
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P4-07: SHRINK TUBE - IRRADIATED POLYMER
Demonstrate properties of shrink tube. Read More
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P4-08: IONIZATION SMOKE ALARM
Demonstrate how a smoke alarm works. Read More
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P4-11 RADIOACTIVE DECAY - DICE
Illustrates the radioactive decay of a sample of nuclei. Shows how a half-life is determined
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P4-21: NUCLIDES CHART
Use chart of the nuclides in small class groups. Read More
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P4-31: CLOUD CHAMBER - INDIVIDUAL VIEWING
Observe alpha and beta particle paths with a cloud chamber. Read More
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P4-33: BUBBLE CHAMBER TRACKS - THREE DIMENSIONAL VIEWMASTER
Allow individual viewing of bubble chamber tracks in three dimensions. Read More
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P4-41: RUTHERFORD SCATTERING MODEL
Show difference in scattering from the Thompson and Rutherford models of the nucleus. Read More
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P4-51: MILLIKAN OIL DROP MODEL
Demonstrate geometry for the Millikan oil drop experiment. Read More
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P4-61: CHAIN REACTION MODEL
Demonstrate a molecular chain reaction, either controlled or uncontrolled. Read More
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P4-62: CHAIN REACTION - MOUSE TRAP VIDEO
Model of uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction. Read More
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