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Phys 142e: General Physics I

•  video  - Grains of Rice

• Coordinate Systems and Vectors
  (also coordinate system model )

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Uniform Linear Acceleration - Time
  (no photogate, use pasco motion detector )
• Falling Drops of Milk

•  video  - Marble and Feather
• Measurement of Free Fall Acceleration
•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - Range Gun

•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - Shoot and Drop
• Projectile Motion II
•  video  - The Monkey and the Hunter
•  video  - Range Gun

• Pasco setup w/ two motion detectors and small basketball on turntable

• Frames of Reference
  (also: Uniform Circular Motion )

• 2 boxes on carts with spring scale, 1 empty 1 with heavy mass

  some large springs and a spring scale to hang masses on

•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil

• spring scale attached to coefficient apparatus with weight attached to scale

  tilted air track with two gates and timer

• Reaction Cars
  (just carts )

• Air Table with puck and string down through center

  centripetal force demo

• Centripetal Acceleration
  (wireless camera version with donald duck on wall and an object to slide off )
•  video  - Conservative System

• adjustable ramp with cart on string and spring scale

• Simple Machines
  (also: 2x4 lever with large weight )

• Motion Sensor on air track with cart and springs. Show position, KE, PE and TE as function of time.

• battering ram

• Egg in a Sheet
•  video  - Air Track Collisions
•  video  - Air Table Collisions

• also styrofoam object with flashlights

•  video  - Motion of Center of Mass
•  video  - Center of Mass Toys
• Fire Extinguisher Rocket Cart

•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
  ( (Just Bicycle Wheel and Buffer Wheel))

• Air top

  conservation of momentum with pellet gun

•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force
• Gyrocompass

• Cavendish Balance Model

• Moment of inertia wheel as a physical pendulum with a timer

  plot P.E., K.E. and T.E. of mass on a spring.

•  video  - Pendula, Spring and Simple
  (pendula with 1:4 length ratio, same mass and two with same length different mass )
• Pendula, Conical and Torsional
• Projected Uniform Circular Motion

• cart on Air track with two springs and magnets taped to cart to show damping (use pasco motion sensor)

•  video  - Forced Oscillations
• Hacksaw Blade Resonance

• Collection of Thermometers

  thermostat and bi-metallic strip with bunsen burner

  PvsT on pasco

•  video  - Crush the Soda Can

• PvsT on Pasco

•  video  - Thermal Expansion
• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases

• thermocouple in ice

  measure heat capacity

  heat capacity using wax and steel balls

• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases
•  video  - Thermal Conductivity

• kinetic theory demo

  CO2 extinguisher

• Probability Board
•  video  - Brownian Motion