Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

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PHYS 1620 100: Introductory Physics II:Gravitation,

• Mass on Spring Simple Pendulum Plastic Disk with imbedded weight (from rolling/moment of inertia

•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats
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•  video  - Fire Syringe
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•  video  - Newton's Rings
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• Several Balls: Basketball, ping-pong ball, baseball, raquetball

• Cavendish Balance Model
  (Just for show and tell. No laser necessary. )
• Gravitational field model
  (trash can version )

• knitting ring, bowling ball, sliced basketball, sliced styrofoam cone

• knitting ring, bowling ball, sliced basketball, sliced styrofoam cone

• Two Bowling Balls (or two basketballs if bowling balls not available)+ 1 golf ball

• Magdeburg Hemispheres
•  video  - Fire Syringe
  (I would like the Fire Syringe, half filled with water colored with blue or green food coloring. I want to show compressibility of air as compared to compressibility of water. )

• Mercury U-tube and Mercury Barometer Small beakers for floating objects on water, oil, mercury

• Hydraulic Press
•  video  - Balloon in Vacuum
• Magdeburg Hemispheres
•  video  - Archimedes' Principle I
  (I would like the beaker of water to sit on one of the green scales so that one can observe the increase in the weight of the beaker when the mass is lowered into the water. )

• atomizer

•  video  - Archimedes' Principle I
•  video  - Weight of Air

• Atomizer

•  video  - Torricelli's Law
•  video  - Airplane Wing in Wind Tunnel

• mass on hanging spring

•  video  - Stability Track

•  video  - Stability Track
•  video  - Pendula, Spring and Simple
  (Just mass on spring and simple pendulum hanging from hooks attached to support stand )

• Simple Pendulum and Mass on spring hanging from fixed supports

  Blue metal disk with holes drilled off-center to be used as physical pendulum. Support will be horizontal rod clamped to vertical post.

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia

• Wine glass with a little water in the bottom. Also, 500 g mass attached to spring with foamboard damping disk

• Hacksaw Blade Resonance
•  video  - Breaking a Wine Glass

•  video  - Conservative System
• Hacksaw Blade Resonance
•  video  - Breaking a Wine Glass

• Bowling Ball hung from ceiling

  Wave Demonstrator with long rods

  long slinky with one end clamped to table

  long spring with one end clamped to table

• Wave Demonstrator with long rods

  long slinky

  long spring with one end clamped to table

• Wave Demonstrator with long rods

  long slinky clamped to table

• Long Slinky clamped to table

  Wave Demonstrator with long rods

  Long chain of beads on rotating wheel (to show "stationary" wave and variation of wave-speed with tension.)

  Tuning fork (heavy one with wooden handle) and rubber mallet to ring it.

• no demos - Exam day

• Two wave demonstrators with different length rods connected end to end

  green laser pointer and small glass plate or microscope slide

• Two wave demonstrators with different length rods connected end to end

  White Board Optics Set

• String Model of Refraction

• Long spring clamped to post on bench

  white board optics

•  video  - Standing Waves
• Resonant tunning fork
• Singing Tubes and Rods
  (singing aluminum rods and small plastic tubes for swinging over head only; Long spring clamped to post on bench )
• Chladni Figures
  (with driven oscillator only (no bow) )

• Singing plastic tube for swinging overhead

  Singing rod

• Resonant tunning fork
• Chladni Figures

• Interference of Sound Waves
  (Using small speakers clamped to meter stick and small oscillator, small microphone for detector, plugged into oscilloscope viewed on camera )
•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats

•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats

• Bullwhip

•  video  - Doppler Buzzer

• bull whip

  play walkman/ipod through fiber optic connection to LED

• Speed of Light
• Light Pipe and Fiber Optics
  (green laser and cylindrical plastic tube for showing spiraling light beam only )
•  video  - Interference and Diffraction

• Fiber Optic coupled to Radio/walkman

  large plastic cylinder and laser to show total internal reflection

  gas ball thermometer (freshly filled with He), Liquid N2, boiling water, ice water

  bi-metal strip and bunsen burner

  racquet ball

• Thermometer Collection

• Thermometer Collection
• Absolute Zero
  (Just gas ball thermometer (freshly filled with He) with liquid N2, ice water, boiling water )
•  video  - Kinetic Theory

• Test Today - no demos

• liquid nitrogen with glass dewar and balloons

• Thermometer Collection
  (Gas ball thermometer, alcohol thermometer only )
• Heat Capacity using Wax and metal Balls
•  video  - Kinetic Theory

• Copper pipe I left in room on Wednesday

  500 ml of water in beaker

  styrofoam calorimeter with thermometer protruding from lid

  70 gram brass sphere to place in calorimeter

  100 ml water in small beaker

  bunsen burner

• Heat Capacity using Wax and metal Balls
•  video  - Fire Syringe

• Sand in styrofoam cups with thermometer

  exploding milk jug

• Refrigerator compressor with optical thermometer to measure temperature of compressor and cold coils

  canned "air" spray which cools when sprayed

  fire syringe to compress canned spray to liquid

•  video  - Stirling Engine
•  video  - Steam Engine
• Heat Engines
  ( Dipping Duck Only)

• Box of styrofoam peanuts (was in room last Friday)

  Refrigerator compressor unit

•  video  - Reversible and Irreversible Processes
  ( High resolution version of video if available. Don't need pucks or beads.)
•  video  - Steam Engine