These short animations have been created as teaching aids by the Lecture-Demonstration staff. They illustrate key points of some of our most popular demonstrations. They can be accessed through the individual demonstration listings, and are also collected here.

 

 Kinematics and Linear Dynamics

Racing Balls

Newton's First Law: Part 1

(Watch for Part 2 coming soon!)

 

Electrostatics and Magnetostatics

Van de Graaff Generator

 

Van de Graaff and Pie Pans: Electrostatic Repulsion

 

Electromagnetic Waves and Sources:

Radio Waves and the Faraday Cage

 

 Mechanical Oscillations, Vibrations, and Waves:

Rotational Pendulum

 

Periodic Oscillations in X and Y: A Simulated Pendulum Wave

 

 Modern Physics:

 Cosmic Ray Detection: Concidence Detection

 

Biophysics

COVID-19 Conformal Transition

 

Sodium Channel

 

Sodium Ion Gradient