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PHYS 2610 100: Intro Physics III: E & M

•  video  - Kinds of Charge and Charging
•  video  - Attraction and Repulsion Between Charged Objects

•  video  - Kinds of Charge and Charging

•  video  - Electrostatic Bell
•  video  - Electric Fields
•  video  - Electric Wind

• VdG generator with fluorescent tube inside chicken-wire Faraday cage, for demo of Gauss' law.

•  video  - Gauss' Law
• Radio in Faraday Cage

•  video  - Lightning Rod
  (we can place a grounding wand (metal sphere on end of a rod) next to the vDG and have students see corona discharge, then you can hold a large metal needle nearby and see the discharges disappear)
•  video  - Capacitor Discharge

• A flashlight bulb, a battery (1.5V or better yet, a 3V assembly), and a single piece of insulated electric wire.

•  video  - Wheatstone Bridge II
•  video  - Circuit Analysis

•  video  - Temperature Effects on the Resistance of Copper Wire
•  video  - Superconducting Wire
• Resistive Heating of Nichrome Wire
• Blowing a Fuse
•  video  - Wheatstone Bridge II

•  video  - Forces Between Current Carrying Wires
•  video  - Force on a Current Carrying Wire in a Magnetic Field

•  video  - Magnetic Fields w/ Iron Filings
•  video  - Magnetic Fields Associated with Current Carrying Wires 1

• Flash Bulb Coil
•  video  - LED Coil
•  video  - Jumping Ring

•  video  - Eddy Current Pendulum
•  video  - Lenz's Law and Eddy Currents
•  video  - Eddy Current Tube
• Eddy Currents 2

• Meissner Effect (diamagnetic levitation)
• Eddy Current Levitation
• Eddy Current Levitation 2
• Quantum Levitation (Flux Pinning)

• Can crusher

•  video  - Back EMF in an Inductor

• Tesla coil if can be operated in 204 + Lou's Tesla coil for display! If we cannot run a Tesla coil at all in 204, I'd still like to show Lou's and then show a movie of Lou's coil in action, if we have that (Physics Day Show?) Thanks!