Lecture Demo List

Mechanics
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MECHANICS

Fundamental Quantities:
  • Length, replica of standard meter.
  • Mass, sets of calibrated weights.
  • Time Interval Measurement
    • Kinematics:
  • Cycloidal Motion.
  • Monkey and Cannon.
  • Central Acceleration.
    • Inertia of Rest:
  • Inertia Balls.
  • Cycloidal Motion, inertia of rest.
    • Components of Force:
  • Vector Sum of Forces.
    • Friction:
  • Force of Friction.
    • Tension and Pressure Forces:
  • Tension in a String.
  • Bed of Nails.
    • Central Forces:
  • Centrifuge.
  • Loop the Loop.
  • Equal Pressure Surface.
    • Torques:
  • Loaded Beam.
  • Tipping Block.
    • Center of Mass and Center of Gravity:
  • Center of Mass and Motion.
  • Disc Rolling Uphill.
  • Unicycle.
  • Irregular Shape.
  • Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • Tipping Block on an Incline.
    • Stability:
  • Stability of Cone and Sphere.
    • Exchange of Potential and Kinetic Energy:
  • Rolling Uphill.
  • Stopped Pendulum.
  • Large Pendulum.
    • Role of Moment of Inertia in Rotational Motion:
  • Rotational Energy.
    • Angular Momentum:
  • Ballet Dancer with Dumbbells.
  • Baseball Player.
  • Lawn Sprinkler.
    • Tops and Gyroscopes:
  • Bicycle Wheel.
  • Non-stop top.
  • Gyro in Suitcase.
  • Spin and Rotation.
  • Air Suspended Gyroscope.
  • Spin Flipping.
    • Work and Power:
  • Generator and Light Bulb.
    • Loss of Energy and Restitution:
  • Falling Stick with Pennies.
    • Simple Harmonic Motion:
  • Simple Harmonic Motion.
  • Mass on a spring.
  • Damped Pendulum.
  • Coupled Pendulum.
  • Coupled Oscillators.
    • Physical Pendula:
  • Oscillating Ring.
  • Falling Chimney.
  • Cork Physical Pendulum.
    • Elastic Property of Solids:
  • Crystal Model.
  • Shear of a Big Book.
  • Shear of a Sponge.
  • Elastic Limit.
    • Miscellaneous Items:
  • Spring Balance.
  • Tortional Pendulum
  • Pan Balance.
  • Croquet.
  • Long Air Track.
  • Short Air Track.
  • Coin and Feather Tube.
  • Simple Pendulum.
  • Double Pendulum.
  • Pendulation.
  • "Happy" and "Unhappy" balls.
  • Gyroscope.
  • Foucault Gyroscope.
  • Simple Gyroscope.
  • Gyro-ring.
  • Second Law of Motion Apparatus.
  • Ballistic Pendulum.
  • Multi-stage Vertical Collision Balls.
  • Universal Lab Interface.
  • Dropped Slinky
  • .The Non-Stop Top

    • FLUIDS

    Gravitational Pressure:
  • Pascal Vases.
    • Air Pressure:
  • Crush Can with Pressure.
  • Magdeburg Hemispheres.
    • Buoyancy:
  • Archimedes's Principle.
    • Pressure Change with Flow:
  • Funnel and Ball.
  • Floating Objects in Jet Stream.
    • More Miscellaneous Items:
  • Manometer.

    • HEAT

    Tempurature and Expansion:
  • Mercury Thermometer.
  • Bimetal Strip.
  • Ball and Ring.
    • Convection:
  • Convection of Gas.
    • Radiation of Heat:
  • Transmission of Radiant Heat.
    • Gas Laws:
  • Model of P_V_T Surface.
    • Kinetic Theory:
  • Radiometer.
    • Vapor Pressure:
  • Drinking Bird.
  • Cryophorous.
    • Change of State:
  • Rubber at Low Temperature.
  • Lead Bell.
  • Viscous Alcohol.
    • Heat Engines:
  • Hero's Engine.
    • Adiabatic Processes:
  • Fire Syringe.
    • More Miscellaneous Items:
  • Steam Generator.
  • Specific Heat Apparatus.
  • Conductometer.
  • Kinetic Therory Apparatus.
  • Steam Engine.
  • Sterling Engine.
  • Heated Teeter-Totter.
  • Liquid Nitrogen Dewer.
  • Change of States Pulse Glass.
  • Absolute Zero Demonstration.
  • Boyle's Law Apparatus.
  • Thermobile.

    • ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

    Electrostatics:
  • Electrostatic Chages.
  • Pith Ball.
  • Charge Detector.
  • Electrostatic Voltmeter.
  • Electrostatic Repulsion.
  • Deflection of a Water Stream.
  • Charge Propelled Cola Can.
  • Shielded Electroscope.
  • Butterfly net Experiment.
  • Windhurst Machine.
    • Electrostatic Generators:
  • Electrostatic Pinwheel, lines of Force.
    • Charge Storage:
  • Field and Voltage.
  • Energy Stored in a Capacitor.
    • Chemical Sources of Electromotive Force:
  • Storage Battery.
    • Resitance and Voltage Change:
  • Model of Resistance.
  • Ohm's Law.
  • Resistivity
  • Temperature Dependence of Resistance.
    • Distribution of Power in Circuits:
  • Series and Parallel Light Bulbs.
    • Forces and Fields From Currents:
  • Magnetic Field Around a Long Wire.
  • Magnetic Field Around a Wire.
  • Field of a Solenoid.
  • Field of a Toriod.
  • Magnetic Force on a Wire.
    • Induction:
  • Forces Due to Induced Current.
  • Currents and Forces by Induction.
  • Direction of Induced Currents.
  • Induced Currents Due to Changing Currents.
    • Eddy Currents:
  • Damped Pendulum.
  • Eddy Currents in a Pendulum.
  • Eddy Currents in a Tube.
    • Induction Coils and Transformers:
  • Jacob's Ladder.
  • Induction Coil.
    • AC Circuit Elements:
  • Variable Inductance.
    • Special Circuit Board Experiments (P. Johnson):
  • Ohm's Law.
  • Kirchoff's Voltage Law.
  • Continuity of Current.
  • Equivalent Parallel Resistance.
  • Superposition of Currents.
  • Equivalent Series Resistance.
    • Spercial Electrical Devices:
  • Flurorescent Light Bulb in Radiation Field.
  • Radiation from a Dipole.
  • Hand Cranked Generator.
  • Interaction Between Bar Magnets.
    • Permanent Magnets:
  • Field of a Magnet
  • Lodestone.
  • Compass.
  • Dip Needle.
  • Levitation of Magnetic Discs.
    • Properties of Magnetic Materials:
  • Curie Point.
  • Magnetic Field.
  • Magnetic Holding with a Small Battery.
  • Solenoid with Iron Core.
  • Demonstration Motor and Generator.
  • Moving Coil Galvanometer.
  • Two-potato Clock.
  • Demonstration Electrophorus.
  • E/M Tube, Helmholts Coil.
  • Torque on a Current Loop.
  • Earth Inductor.
  • Van de Graff Generator.
  • Tesla Coil.
  • Spectrum Tubes.
  • Super Conductor.

    • SOUND

    Waves:
  • Wave Pulse on a Rope.
  • Wave Machine, Bell Lab.
  • Wave on an Air Track.
  • Slinky Spring.
    • Standing Waves n Plates:
  • Chladni Plates.
  • Forced Nodes and Loops in a Vibrating Plate.
    • Sound Sources:
  • Siren Disc.
  • Quadrupole Nature of Tuning Fork.
    • Resonance in Pipes:
  • Helmoholtz Resonators.
  • Musical Goblets.
  • Organ Pipe.
    • Vibrating Bars:
  • Tuning Forks with Resonators.
    • Sound Waves:
  • No Sound Through a Vacuum.
  • Low Frequency Tuning Fork.
    • Doppler Shift and Beats:
  • Doppler Shift.
    • Vibrating Strings:
  • Sonometer and String Instrument.
    • Lissajous Figures:
  • Sand Track Lissajous Figures.
  • Lissajous Figures on an Oscilloscope.
    • Time Measurement:
  • Metronome.
  • Ball in Grooved Parabolic Track.
  • Interference Model.
  • Combinations of Harmonic Motions.
  • Coupled Pendula.
  • Metal Sine Waves.

    • OPTICS

    Plane Mirrors and Reflection:
  • Position of Image.
  • Mirrors at an Angle.
  • Perversion.
  • Blackboard Optics - Plane Mirror.
    • Reflection From Curved Surfaces:
  • Blackboard Optics - Concave Mirror.
  • Blackboard Optics - Convex Mirror.
  • Image with a Concave Mirror.
  • Find the Object.
  • No Image with a Convex Mirror.
    • Refraction at a Plane Surface:
  • Blackboard Optics - Refraction.
  • Seeing a Coin.
  • Broken Stick.
    • Critical Angle:
  • Light Pipe.
    • Lenses:
  • Thin Convex Lens.
  • Thin Concave Lens.
  • Blackboard Optics - Thin Lenses.
    • Spectrum and Color:
  • Syntesis of Colors.
  • Magic Elixer.
  • Rainbow.
    • Electromagnetic Wave Properties of Light:
  • Single Slit Diffraction Pattern.
  • Adjustable Slit.
  • Interference Pattern of Two Slits.
  • Number of Silts.
    • Light Scattering:
  • Light Scattering.

    • MODERN PHYSICS

    Nuclear Reactions:
  • Mousetrap Chain Reaction.
  • Radiological Survey Meter.
  • Flourescence.
  • Electron Diffraction Tube.
  • Crooke's Tube.
    • More Miscellaneous Items:
  • Newton's Ring.
  • Polarizing Discs.
  • Micro Bank - Shrink Coins.
  • Laser Light.
  • Centripetal Force.
  • Stroboscope.
  • Lightning - Capacitor Discharching.
  • Demonstration Video Tapes, 122.
  • Demonstration CD.
  • UV Light Discharge Charges to the Air.
  • Chemical Batter.
  • Different Kinds of Energy - Coal, Oil, Batter.
  • Energy Effeciency - Compact Flourescent Light.
  • Energy Transmition - Bulb in Microwave oven.
  • Microwave Transmitter.
  • Ball Bounces Between Two Charged Plates.
  • 3D Mirrors.
  • Electrostatic Lines-of-Forc Kid.
  • Solar Power - cells and motor.
  • Plasma Ball.
  • Demonstration Barometer.
  • Precision Sound-Level Meter and Anlyzer.
  • Bio-electricity - Copper and Al Plates with a Meter.
  • Potato Gun.
  • Pulley System.
  • Optical Fiber Light.
  • Handboiler.
  • Tornado Lamp.
  • Lightning.
  • Frequency generator-amplifier-loudspeaker.
  • Action and Reaction - Fire extinguisher on Cart.
  • Incandescent Bulb Connected to a Variac.
  • Mac Motion.
  • Free Fall - Tall Ladder, Balls.
  • Steel Ball Floats on Mercury.
  • Wooden Vectors.
  • Fire Maker. He2
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