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PHYS 142E: General Physics I

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Uniform Linear Acceleration - Time
  (pasco )
• Measurement of Free Fall Acceleration
• Falling Drops of Milk

• Frames of Reference
  (also Uniform Circular Motion )

•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil
• Reaction Cars

• scale on ramp with mass taped on top

  lou's chair lift

•  photos  - Tension in a String
• Reaction Cars
  (also, blocks to raise end of air track w/ big timer )

• Centrifugal force, little guy on parachute, block and curved red track on turntable.

• Coefficient of Friction

• large ramp with block

• air track harmonic oscillator with motion sensor, plot KE,PE,TE

• Potential Energy
•  video  - Conservative System
• Electrolysis of Water

• Fire Extinguisher Rocket Cart
• Water Rocket
•  video  - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket

•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
  (also: inertia rods )
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
  (no timer )
•  video  - The Falling Rigid Body

•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
  (just wheel and grinder )

• gravity on overhead demo

  Cons of ang mom with pellet gun, no pasco or timer

• Air Gyro
• Gyrocompass
• Gyroscopes
  (just gimballed gyro )

• Stacking Blocks

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia
•  video  - Center of Mass Toys
  (just leaning tower )
• The Roman Arch

• Cavendish Balance Model
  (also conic sections )

• Cart oscillating on air track , read PE KE TE on Pasco.

• damped oscillations on air track with pasco

•  video  - Forced Oscillations
•  video  - Breaking a Wine Glass
• The Puzzle of the Tacoma Bridge Narrows Bridge Collapse

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

• Heat capacity demo w/wax

  sand and thermometer

  show and tell joule expt

  thermocouple in ice on pasco

• reaction time