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PHYS 1050 001: How Things Work
MWF 13:00-13:50 Room 203 Bloomfield
2012-08-29
2012-08-31
2012-09-03
2012-09-05
- Black adjustable ramp (hinged inclined plane used for friction demos), heavy cart for ramp (with wheels fully functioning), spring scale to lift cart straight up and also pull it up the ramp, wooden blocks to prop up the ramp at various angles
- Ball Collection
(One croquet ball and a bowling ball)
- Push Me Pull Me Carts
2012-09-07
- Black adjustable ramp, heavy cart for ramp, spring scale to lift cart straight up and also pull it up the ramp, wooden blocks to prop up the ramp at various angles, a meter stick pivoting about a horizontal metal rod (well balanced and spinning freely), mini-me to pivot about the same metal rod (also well-balanced), a long aluminum beam and pivot to make a play seesaw, 4 one kilogram weights to put on the seesaw beam, two moment-of-inertia bars
- Ball Collection
(croquet ball, bowling ball, basketball, wobbleball
)
2012-09-10
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1. A meter stick pivoting about a horizontal metal rod (well-balanced and spinning freely)
2. Mini-me to pivot about that same metal rod (also well-balanced)
3. A long aluminum beam and pivot to make a play seesaw
4. 4 one-kilogram (I think) weights to put on the seesaw beam
5. A basketball
6. A wobbleball (if we have one)
7. The two moment-of-inertia bars
8. The little seesaw and mallet (I have the water balloon)
2012-09-21
- A weight hanging from spring -- the bouncing-scale spring from last time and the associated weight would be great. A large rubber balloon to bounce the Unhappy ball off of. A bowl of sand or bean or rice to not-bounce the happy ball off of. A 12" square of wood or metal, to bounce ball off of (as the square moves upward). A 12" square of wood or metal, to bounce ball off of (as the square moves upward).
- Ball Collection
(Baseball, golf ball, lacrosse ball, basketball & tennis ball (double-bounce trick), Happy and Unhappy balls.)
2012-09-24
- video - Spinning Tray
- Ball Collection
(Baseball, golf ball, Lacrosse ball, Basketball and tennis ball (double-bounce trick), Happy and Unhappy balls, a 12" square of wood or metal, to bounce ball off of (as the square moves upward) baseball bat hanging from support and hard-ball mallet, pink ball on string.
)
2012-10-01
2012-10-03
2012-10-10
2012-10-15
2012-10-17
- 1. Clean drinking water in a cup
2. Several drinking straws
3. A squeeze bottle of water
4. The piston pump and some water to transfer through it
5. The short water storage tank with hose and nozzle to squirt water around
6. The tall (cat-walk) storage tank with hose and nozzle to squirt water around
7. Siphon
- video - Pascal's Vases
2012-10-19
- 1. Siphon: short tygon tube with two beakers of water
2. Vacuum cannon
- video - Air Flow Dynamics
(two plates that stick together when air flows between them, ping-pong ball in funnel, paint-spray demo (atomizer): eyedropper air nozzle and domed tube in container of water)
- Vortex Cannon
2012-10-22
- 1. Two plates that stick together when air flows between them
2. Ping-Pong ball in funnel
3. Paint-spray demo: eyedropper air nozzle and domed tube in container of water
4. The water hammer demonstrator (glass with liquid inside that makes a tap sound)
5. Rheological liquid in a glass dish and some sticks to show turbulence in the document camera
6. 2nd largest rubber mallet and trash can (we'll break beer bottles using water hammer)
7. Baseball
- Water Hammer
- video - Air Flow Dynamics
- video - Laminar and Turbulent Flow
2012-10-24
- 1. The water hammer demonstrator (glass with liquid inside that makes a tap sound)
2. Rheological liquid in a glass dish and some sticks to show turbulence in the document camera
3. 2nd largest rubber mallet and trash can (we'll break beer bottles using water hammer)
4. Smoke generator
5. Baseball
6. Leaf blower and beach ball
7. Golf ball
8. Curveball throwing toy with foam balls
2012-10-31
- Ball Collection
(1. Baseball
2. Golf ball
3. Tennis ball
4. Basketball
5. Curveball throwing toy with foam balls
6. Beachball
)
2012-11-02
- 1. Foam Airplane
2. Beachball and blower
3. Balsa wind-up airplane (if we have one)
4. Balsa glider (if we have one)
2012-11-07
- 1. Foam Airplane
2. Balsa wind-up airplane
3. Thermal conductivity demo: the three metal bars and hanging metal marbles
4. Thin-walled stainless tube and a gas burner
5. The convection cell demo (with projector)
6. Test tube of water, hand-held from bottom while boiling the top over a burner
7. Thermal radiation demonstration -- reflectors and lighting a match or cooking a marshmallow
- video - Convection Box
- video - Thermal Conductivity
- video - Light The Match
2012-11-09
- 1. Ice water with a thermometer, heated on a magnetic stirrer heater -- I have one if you don't
2. The same as above, but up at boiling temperature (probably the same demo, later in the class)
3. Crush the soda can by boiling water in it and then plunging the open mouth into cold water.
4. Boiling water in vacuum
- video - Crush the Soda Can
- video - Boiling by Reducing Pressure
2012-11-12
2012-11-14
- 1. My cardboard boxes with dials on them and paper disks in them.
2. The jug, bicycle pump, and thermocouple (pump air in --temperature goes up until cork pops out and then temperature plummets)
3. An empty plastic soda bottle with the cap screwed on -- an air conditioner (same concept as #2, except as a hand-prop -- I'll squeeze it "outside" and let heat flow out, then I'll go "inside" and let it expand so that heat flow in.
4. The torn-open dehumidifier that we normally have in the attic (or somewhere like that).
2012-11-19
- 1. An empty plastic soda bottle with the cap screwed on -- an air conditioner (same concept as #2, except as a hand-prop -- I'll squeeze it "outside" and let heat flow out, then I'll go "inside" and let it expand so that heat flow in.
2. The torn-open dehumidifier that we normally have in the attic (or somewhere like that).
3. The little steam engine
4. Dipping duck
5. Exploding milk jug (methanol, spark)
- Methanol Rocket (Explode a Milk Jug)
- video - Steam Engine
- Heat Engines
2012-11-26
2012-11-28
- 1. Bowling Ball Pendulum
2. Three different period pendulums
3. A mass hanging from a spring (just to show a harmonic oscillator)
4. Several tuning forks and something to strike them with
5. A bench clamp, vertical steel post, and hanging hook for my
pendulum clock (I'll bring it up with me and finalize the hanging process myself)
6. Torsional pendulum
7. Camera for my balance ring carriage clock (I'll bring it upstairs, too).
8. The singing rod and rosin for playing it.
2012-12-03
- 1. The vibrating rope demonstration (fundamental, second harmonic, etc.)
2. The sonometer and bow
3. My violin again
4. A glass coke bottle
5. The helium tank (to fill the coke bottle with helium)
6. The break-the-wineglass with sound demo (we don't need the strobe and camera, which will be busy with the rope demo anyway)
7. Bowling ball pendulum
8. Tacoma Narrows bridge video
9. Two matched tuning forks on boxes to show resonant energy transfer
10. Do we have a two-coupled pendulum energy transfer demo?
2012-12-05
- 1. A glass coke bottle
2. The helium tank (to fill the coke bottle with helium)
3. The break-the-wineglass with sound demo (we don't need the strobe and camera, which will be busy with the rope demo anyway)
4. Bowling ball pendulum
5. Tacoma Narrows bridge video
6. Two matched tuning forks on boxes to show resonant energy transfer
7. Do we have a two-coupled pendulum energy transfer demo?
8. The carpet tubes and burner
9. The metal tube with screen in it
10. A drinking straw (to blow across and make a tone)
11. The swinging tubes
12. Chladni plates on vibrating coil (I can move the audio oscillator)
2012-12-07
- 1. A baseball
2. The bowling ball pendulum
2013-01-18