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Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

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PHYS 1425 002: General Physics I

MWF 10:00-10:50 Room 203 Stephen Thornton

2012-01-18

2012-01-23

2012-01-25

I need a racquetball and bag of M&M peanuts I note that the demonstration record of Spring 2011 demos does not list the section number for PHYS 1425.

2012-01-27

2012-01-30

Propeller Cart on Track
( I need several difference mass cars and the two cars that clip together.)
video - Ballistics Cart
Hit the Nail on the Head
video - Tablecloth Pull
video - Bottle and Pencil
video - Hanging Masses
Razor Scooter
Weighing

2012-02-01

photos - Tension in a String

2012-02-03

Let me use Lou's friction box and wall board. I need 0-40 N spring scale. Please set up TV to look at it. I need large blocks of wood to show.
Coefficient of Friction

2012-02-06

I need the string and ball to swing around my head. I need the bowling ball and broom. Please set up a camera to look at the bowling ball and broom on the floor near the entrance where the students walk in.

2012-02-13

photos - Tension in a String
Gravitational field model
(I would like the trash can model. )

2012-02-17

I would like an empty cardboard box about 1-2 foot on a side.

2012-02-20

I want the same box as last time with a few packing kernels in it.
Work Done by a Compressed Spring
(I will do no measurements. )

2012-02-22

I need the box back again. I also need the hopper popper demo - racquetball cut in half.
Potential Energy
video - Conservative System
video - Loop - the - Loop

2012-02-27

I want a small bean bag and a racquetball. I also want my rocket bicycle.
Egg in a Sheet
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Reaction Cars
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Fire Extinguisher Rocket Cart
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Water Rocket
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video - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket
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video - Air Track Collisions
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2012-02-29

I want the demo of the racquetball on top of the basketball. There is an o-ring on top of the basketball to hold it. I cannot find this demo.
video - Center of Mass of Virginia
video - Center of Mass Toys
Brachistochrone curve
Reaction Cars
( I need carts of varying masses.)

2012-03-02

I want the bicycle wheel positioned and clamped on the table so I can simply rotate the wheel. The axle should be firmly clamped and horizontal.
Ballistic Pendulum
video - The Falling Rigid Body

2012-03-12

2012-03-14

I want the bicycle wheel mounted with its axle fixed on the table like you did previously. If you have a second bicycle wheel that is free that I could roll on the table, that would be good also.
video - Giant Yo-Yo
video - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia

2012-03-16

I also want the bicycle wheel set up on the table so I can rotate the wheel.
video - Giant Yo-Yo
video - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
( ( I just want the dumbbells, not the bicycle wheel.) )

2012-03-19

2012-03-21

video - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force
Air Gyro
Gyrocompass
Gyroscopes
( I would also like some simple spinning tops that I can twirl. Put on TV.)

2012-03-23

I want the demo where we stack blocks at the edge of the long table on top of each other. The top block is not above the table.
video - Center of Mass of Virginia
video - Center of Mass Toys
video - Stability Track
photos - Knot in Static Equilibrium
Rotational Equilibrium

2012-03-26

2012-03-30

I want the chair demo with nails. I need a bunch of pressure gauges for Show and Tell.
Hydrostatic Pressure dependence on depth
video - Pascal's Vases
video - Crush the Soda Can
Magdeburg Hemispheres
Pressure Gauges
Cartesian Diver
video - Weight of Air

2012-04-02

A coke can with a hole in the side near the bottom.
video - Pascal's Vases
Hydraulic Press
video - Archimedes' Principle I
Archimedes' Principle II
Cartesian Diver

2012-04-04

I also want beach ball and electric weed blower. Hair dryer and ping pong ball.
video - Torricelli's Law
( Can you use coloring in the water to make this easier to see? Thanks.)
video - Venturi Tube
Toilet paper gun
video - Air Flow Dynamics
(include atomizer. )
video - Pendula, Spring and Simple
Loud Speaker Demonstrator

2012-04-06

2012-04-09

I want three, small styrofoam cups: one with hot water, cold water, room temperature water.
video - Pendula, Physical (Center of Percussion)
(meter stick )
video - Forced Oscillations
Hacksaw Blade Resonance
The Puzzle of the Tacoma Bridge Narrows Bridge Collapse

2012-04-11

Absolute Zero
( I am not going to be able to do all these temperatures. You do not need to prepare the dry ice methanol mixture. I do want LN2, boiling water, ice water, room temperature water. I will put the stainless steel sphere in each of these. I do want helium gas in the sphere.)
video - Thermal Expansion
LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases

2012-04-16

Duffusion demo. I also need a pot of water boiling. I will drop two pieces of metal (I have the metal) into pot so they both are at 100 C. I need two Styrofoam cups with equal amounts of room temperature water. I need thermometers in both cups that can be read on the room TV.
video - Boiling by Cooling
video - Boiling by Reducing Pressure

2012-04-18

video - Fire Syringe

2012-04-20

2012-04-23