Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

Demonstration Record

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PHYS 106/609: How Things Work

• CO2 Rocket cart

  2-liter bottle rocket (also one attached to pasco car)

  Broom, hula hoop, bowling ball

  air track (Gordon will bring bottle rockets)

• pasco carts with scales

  rocket cart w/2 cylinders

  air pucks

  baseball,tennisball, bowling ball

  boxes with bowling ball in one on rollers

• couple of different weight balls to drop

  bowling ball

  basketball, tennisball and baseball

• The Nickel and the Piece of Paper
• The Monkey and the Hunter

• 2 pasco carts with green scales

  baseball, bowling ball, tennis ball

• The Monkey and the Hunter
• Inclined Plane

• Lou's chair lift

  ramp with cart and scale like last time

  bowling ball

  meterstick on rod to spin

  basketball and wobbleball

• long and short ruler

  long see-saw

  aluminum seesaw with weights

  friction box with particle board (pasco force sensor)

  bicycle wheel

  box on rollers (rods)

• beans in a dish

  air track with two same mass carts an one larger cart

  air pucks with velcro so they stick together

• Vector Nature of Angular Momentum and Conservation of the Same
  ( no bicycle wheel )
• Brownian Motion
• Reversible and Irreversible Processes
  ( )
• Kinds of Charge and Charging
  (add plastic rod on pivot with camera overhead )

• electrostatic air filter

  electrometer with funny shape and proof plane

• Kinds of Charge and Charging
  (with camera and rotating rod )
• Lightning Rod

• electrostatic filter

  helium ballon, air balloon and feather

• Attraction and Repulsion Between Charged Objects
  (also balloon )
• Electric Fields
• Lightning Rod
  (also styrofoam pieces and stool )

• GaAs chip connected to LED bar graph

  electrostatic air cleaner

• Attraction and Repulsion Between Charged Objects
  ( )
• Electric Fields
  (use Whimshurst machine; )

• car battery with short and long,thin wires

  ohm's law demo with power supply, include diode as well

• Temperature Effects on the Resistance of Copper Wire

• Big board with function generator, diode, resistor and scope

• Ohm's Law
• Electric Motor
  (Just open motor with 6V battery )

• 1/2 wave rectifier on big board w/ scope

  ohms law demo with diode

  GaAs demo with led meter

• Emission Spectra

• big board w/diode

  jacobs ladder and welding nail

  full wave rectifier

• big board with rectifier

  cap with generator and bulb

  ohms law with MOSFET switch

• Capacitor Discharge
• Back EMF in an Inductor and Induction Coil

• rainbow (prism on overhead with variac to dim overhead)

  ripple tank

  sunset demo

• ripple tank

• Interference of Sound Waves
• Blackboard (or Elmo) Optics
• Newton's Rings
• Thin Film Interference

• Mouse Trap Atomic Bomb