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PHYS 7010 001: Theoretical Mechanics I

• a short length of chain

• Soap Films
  (pyrex dish with two large circle frames)

•  video  - The Atwood Machine
• Walking the Giant YoYo

• large wood ball pendulum with < 1cm diameter ring to slide down string to show pendulum period gets shorter

• sliced wooden cone to show conic sections

• Coupled Pendulum Oscillators

•  video  - Inverted Pendulum - Function Generator
  (inverted)

• AFROTC orange cone with round bottom that can be rolled, three molecular models: Using green balls & metal sticks: 1. diatomic (linear) and 2. trigonal planar. Using Allyn & Bacon Organic Chemistry Set: 3. tetrahedral

• football

• Air Gyro

• Ball rolling on a rotating table - flat and tilted cases w/ 1-inch steel ball

• Ball rolling inside a cylinder - use racket ball in plastic "bell jar" and get it spinning by doing a "hula-hoop" motion with the jar - http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/movies.htm