Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

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PHYS 1060 001: How Things Work

•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil
• Razor Scooter
• Ball Collection
  (A few different size balls: bowling ball, baseball, ping-pong ball. Thanks! )

• A Spring Scale. Thanks!

• AirPro Hockey pucks
• Ball Collection
• Push Me Pull Me Carts
• Distortion Loops
•  video  - Inclined Plane

• Long and Short Level Arms on table, Mallet (rubber kind) Thin skin small water balloons. Thanks!

•  video  - Center of Mass Toys
• Weight Dependence of Friction
•  video  - Conservative System
• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force

• Snake in the can toy. Thanks a lot!

•  video  - Air Track Collisions
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum

• Static Electricity: 1. Teflon rod and silk Acrylic rod and teflon film to rub it on. 2. A simple DC circuit: a car battery, a knife switch, and a light bulb. 3. A simple circuit with 3 D-cells and a light bulb. 4. A simple circuit with D-cells and an LED. DC Circuit: 1. A simple DC circuit: a car battery, a knife switch, and a light bulb. 2. A simple circuit with 3 D-cells and a light bulb. 3. A simple circuit with D-cells and an LED. 4. Small compass to show electric current in a circuit. Roger and Al, I have a lot of demos for this day, let's set it up in room 203. Many Thanks! --Lihong

•  video  - Kinds of Charge and Charging
•  video  - Van de Graaff Generator
  ( Need a long needle to work with it. Thanks!)
•  video  - Gauss' Law
•  video  - Parallel Plate Capacitor
• Visual Electricity Demonstrator and Generator
• Ohm's Law
• Resistive Heating of Nichrome Wire

• Barkhausen Effect
• Electromagnet
• Magnet collection
  ( 1. Two bar magnets on swivel stands. 2. Two other bar magnets. 3. One "broken" bar magnet (broken or cut along its length to show the new pair of poles at the break). 4. Some NdFeB magnets that I can let jump at each other. (e)Pieces of iron (ferromagnetic), copper, aluminum, stainless steel (all non-magnetic)). 5. Several paper clips, a strong magnet to magnetize the paper clips. Thanks! )
•  video  - Magnetic Fields w/ Matrix of Iron Rods
•  video  - Lenz's Law and Eddy Currents
•  video  - Jumping Ring
  ( rings and light bulb on coil.)
• Eddy Current Levitation 2

•  video  - Back EMF in an Inductor
•  video  - Transformers
  ( Don't need Jacob's Ladder, thanks!)
• Power Loss in Transmission Lines

•  video  - Microwave Oven Experiments
  ( Couple CDs, Spoon, incandescent light bulb, plasma ball experiment. Thanks!)
•  video  - Electromagnetic Radiation
• FM Radio

• 1.Using two or three colors mixed together to create a different color. 2. A large sheet of white paper. 3. The fluorescent lamp fixture with a normal fluorescent lamp and one without the phosphor coating. 4. A box of Tide detergent. Lot of Demos today. Let's set it up in room 203. Many Thanks.

•  video  - Ray Optics Kit
  ( A large white board and a piece of glass. Just need to show reflection and refraction of light from a piece of glass.)
• Multiple Slit Interference
  ( Just the long filament bulb on variac.)
•  video  - Thin Film Interference
• Line (discontinuous) Spectra
  ( Neon, Helium, and Mercury.)
• Rainbow II
•  video  - Sunset
• Polarization by Reflection
• Polarization by Scattering

• 1. One incandescent light bulb, one a normal fluorescent lamp with phosphor coating, and one LED lamp, in working circuits. 2. Some fine mesh screens to show diffraction effects with laser pointers. Many thanks!

•  video  - Transverse Waves
  ( Long Spring only.)
• Ohm's Law
  ( With several different colors of LEDs to show: 1. it's a one-way device for current; 2. it emits light once it begins to conduct current. Thanks!)
•  video  - Interference and Diffraction

• A giant converging lens to form images of the room light on a sheet of paper. Thanks!

•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats
•  video  - Ray Optics Kit
• Total Internal Reflection
  (Lens with different focus lengths (curvatures), and different sizes - Blackboard Optics.)
• Water Light Pipe
• Multiple Slit Interference II

• Ohm's Law
  ( With a MOSFET. Thanks.)
• Transistor Amplifier

• 1. Several masonary nails (high carbon steel), a vice, a really hot blow-torch, pliers, and a beaker of cold water. I want to harden a nail by heating it yellow hot and quenching, then trying to bend it. I then want to anneal a nail by heating it yellow hot and letting it air cool slowly, then bending it without breaking it. 2. A magnet and a cheap 18-8 stainless steel knife (the magnet should not stick). If you have no knife that a magnet won't stick to, then a spoon or a fork will do. 3. A large piece of Quartz Crystal, a small piece of quartz glass samples. Thanks a lot!

• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases
• Phase Change in Iron

• 0. Cornstarch and water, premixed. 1. A hot natural gas burner 2. A beaker of water 3. A piece of Plexiglas or Lucite to heat, soften, and melt 4. A milk jug (high-density polyethylene) 5. A paper packet of 2-part 5-minute epoxy and a card to mix them on 6. Superglue and two metal objects to glue together 7. An ordinary (polypropylene) rope and a spectra rope (pink) hanging from the catwalk. 8. A piece of Kevlar polymer plastic. Thanks a Lot!

• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases

•  video  - Photoelectric Effect in Zinc
• Geiger counter
•  video  - Mouse Trap Atomic Bomb

• Final Exam Review (no demo today). --Lihong

• Summer 2013 Physics 1060, Final Exam. No Demo. Thank you very much Roger, Al, and Nikolay! --Lihong