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PHYS 1060 001: How Things Work

• 1. Tablecloth trick 2. Razor Scooter 3. Hovercraft 4. Baseball 5. Bowling Ball (red one) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Razor Scooter 2. Hovercraft 3. Baseball 4. Bowling Ball (red one) 5. Basketball 6. Bouncy Ball Thanks, Lou

• 1. Hovercraft 2. Baseball 3. Bowling Ball (red one) 4. Basketball 5. Bouncy Ball Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Bowling Ball (red one) 3. Basketball 4. Bouncy Ball 5. Two Green Spring Scales 6. Big (5kg?) weight (to put in my little red wagon) 7. Two different spring scales (the disks with red needle) 8. Several different big wood blocks (for my ramp) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Basketball 3. Bowling Ball (red one) 4. Two Green Spring Scales 5. Big (5kg?) weight (to put in my little red wagon) 6. Two different spring scales (the disks with red needle) 7. Several different big wood blocks (for my ramp) 8. 2 Pasco carts 9. Mini-Me (I have the pivot) plus my red wagon my ramp the water balloon (or I'll make another) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Basketball 3. Bowling Ball (red one) 4. Big (5kg?) weight (to put in my little red wagon) 5. Two different spring scales (the disks with red needle) 6. Several different big wood blocks (for my ramp) 7. Mini-Me (I have the pivot) 8. Aluminum seesaw bar (several feet long) and short pivot (about 1.5" high aluminum angle bar) 9. 4 1-kg weights 10. Two moment-of-inertia bars plus my red wagon my ramp my wood-beam and pivot system (I left it there Friday) my wobbleball Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Basketball 3. Bowling Ball (red one) 4. Big weight (to put in my little red wagon) 5. Several different big wood blocks (for my ramp) 6. Mini-Me (I have the pivot) 7. Aluminum seesaw bar (several feet long) and short pivot (about 1.5" high aluminum angle bar) 8. 4 1-kg weights 9. Two moment-of-inertia bars plus my red wagon my ramp my wood-beam and pivot system (I left it there Friday) my wobbleball Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Bowling Ball (red one) 3. Mini-Me (I have the pivot) 4. Aluminum seesaw bar (several feet long) and short pivot (about 1.5" high aluminum angle bar) 5. 4 1-kg weights 6. Two moment-of-inertia bars 7. Battery to charge my big capacitor 8. Can with jumping snake in it 9. Tray with two colored beads in it (to stir and destroy order) 10. 3 rollers for my wheel-less wagon 11. A spring scale to pull my wheel-less wagon with 12. The 5-kg weight to put in my wheel-less wagon 13. Wooden kitchen matches (box of) 14. Bicycle wheel (to roll around the table) plus my red wagon and wheel-less red wagon my big capacitor my bow and peg fire-starter my big bearings Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseball 2. Bowling Ball (red one) 3. Battery to charge my big capacitor 4. Can with jumping snake in it 5. Tray with two colored beads in it (to stir and destroy order) 6. 3 rollers for my wheel-less wagon 7. A spring scale to pull my wheel-less wagon with 8. The 5-kg weight to put in my wheel-less wagon 9. Wooden kitchen matches (box of) 10. Bicycle wheel 11. Two Pasco Carts 12. The two baseball mallets and a nail & wood (to pound in with mallets) 13. Swivel Chair 14. Grinder for bicycle wheel 15. Dumbbells for swivel chair

  plus my big capacitor, my bow and peg fire-starter, my big bearings, my little air hockey table, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Two Pasco Carts 2. The two baseball mallets and a nail & wood (to pound in with mallets) 3. Swivel Chair 4. Grinder for bicycle wheel 5. Dumbbells for swivel chair 6. Red Bowling Ball 7. Two hanging pitch balls 8. Teflon and silk 9. Acrylic and teflon sheet 10. Electroscope (mechanical) 11. Brass bar for Electroscope 12. Plastic bar for Electroscope 13. Large glass beaker (for peeling tape), I probably won't get to it, but I should be prepared: 14. Van de Graaff generator 15. Plastic stool for Van de Graaff

  plus, my long balloons, my little air hockey table, my roll of plastic tape, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Two hanging pitch balls 2. Teflon and silk 3. Acrylic and teflon sheet 4. Electroscope (mechanical) 5. Brass bar for Electroscope 6. Plastic bar for Electroscope 7. Large glass beaker (for peeling tape) 8. Van de Graaff generator 9. Plastic stool for Van de Graaff 10. Styrofoam cup to launch from Van de Graaff 11. Styrofoam peanuts 12. Pom-pom 13. Sharp needle, plus: my long balloons, my roll of plastic tape, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Two hanging pitch balls (simple commercial balls are fine -- I may or may not use this demo today) 2. Teflon and silk 3. Acrylic and teflon sheet 4. Electroscope (mechanical) 5. Van de Graaff generator 6. Plastic stool for Van de Graaff 7. Sharp needle 8. Some foam peanuts 9. Whimshurst machine, parallel plates, and candle (with matches)

  plus, my long balloons, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Van de Graaff generator 2. Sharp needle 3. Some foam peanuts 4. Whimshurst machine, parallel plates, and candle (with matches) 5. Car battery, knife switch, lightbulb, and red & black wires to connect them all together. Thanks, Lou

• 1. Car battery, knife switch, lightbulb, and red & black wires to connect them all together. 2. The "short circuit" to plug in around the bulb 3. Batteries (for show and tell): D, C, AA, AAA, 9V 4. A flashlight with a bulb in it (works when batteries are reversed) 5. A flashlight with an LED in it (doesn't work when batteries are reversed) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Car battery, knife switch, lightbulb, and red & black wires to connect them all together. 2. The "short circuit" to plug in around the bulb 3. Batteries (for show and tell): D, C, AA, AAA, 9V 4. Two red-white bar magnets on swivels 5. Several additional red-white bar magnets 6. A pre-broken bar magnet, so that I can show the new poles at the broken ends. 7. Several NdFeB magnets that I can let jump at one another 8. The lattice of little compass needles 9. Pieces of steel, stainless steel (nonmagnetic), brass, copper, and aluminum Thanks, Lou

• 1. Two red-white bar magnets on swivels 2. Several additional red-white bar magnets 3. A pre-broken bar magnet, so that I can show the new poles at the broken ends. 4. Several NdFeB magnets that I can let jump at one another 5. The lattice of little compass needles 6. Pieces of steel, stainless steel (nonmagnetic), brass, copper, and aluminum 7. The big electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it 8. The electromagnet for me to hang from. Thanks, Lou

• No Class-Out of Town

• 1. The radio transmitter with vertical metal antenna 2. The radio receiver antenna with a lightbulb in the middle of it 3. Microwave oven 4. CDs to burn up 5. Beaker with small amount of water 6. Clear incandescent bulb 7. Matches and a cork (to make plasma balls) and a plastic bottle to catch them. (I have given up on the FM transmitter and receiver, which don't work well at all. I'll bring my own walkie-talkies.) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Microwave oven 2. CDs to burn up 3. Beaker with small amount of water 4. Clear incandescent bulb 5. Matches and a cork (to make plasma balls) and a plastic bottle to catch them, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Microwave oven 2. CDs to burn up 3. Beaker with small amount of water 4. Clear incandescent bulb 5. Matches and a cork (to make plasma balls) and a plastic bottle to catch them. 6. Blue-sky/Sunset demo 7. Elmo Optics on the Document Camera: refraction, reflection 8. Dispersion on the overhead with the big prism, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Blue-sky/Sunset demo 2. Elmo Optics on the Document Camera: refraction, reflection 3. Dispersion on the overhead with the big prism 4. Soap film demo 5. Polarized glare demo -- just a lamp viewed at a shallow angle through a polarizer, probably viewed directly by the students (no camera -- or the camera that records the class), Thanks, Lou

• 1. Elmo Optics on the Document Camera: refraction, reflection 2. Dispersion on the overhead with the big prism 3. Soap film demo 4. Polarized glare demo -- just a lamp viewed at a shallow angle through a polarizer, probably viewed directly by the students (no camera -- or the camera that records the class). 5. Pyrex disappearing when immersed in salad oil (matched refractive index), Thanks, Lou

• 1. Elmo Optics on the Document Camera: refraction, reflection 2. Dispersion on the overhead with the big prism 3. Soap film demo 4. Polarized glare demo -- just a lamp viewed at a shallow angle through a polarizer, probably viewed directly by the students (no camera -- or the camera that records the class). 5. Pyrex disappearing when immersed in salad oil (matched refractive index) 6. Camera with diffraction grating. 7. Incandescent filament (tall lamp) for spectrum viewing 8. Discharge lamps for spectrum viewing: neon, mercury 9. Fluorescent lamps: one bare tube and one phosphored tube. 10. Phosphors with UV lamp Thanks, Lou

• 1. Elmo Optics on the Document Camera: refraction, reflection 2. Camera with diffraction grating. 3. Incandescent filament (tall lamp) for spectrum viewing 4. Discharge lamps for spectrum viewing: neon, mercury 5. Fluorescent lamps: one bare tube and one phosphored tube. 6. Phosphors with UV lamp 7. High-pressure sodium lamp 8. High-pressure mercury lamp Thanks, Lou

• 1. Incandescent filament (tall lamp) for spectrum viewing 2. Discharge lamps for spectrum viewing: neon, mercury 3. Fluorescent lamps: one bare tube and one phosphored tube. 4. Phosphors with UV lamp 5. High-pressure sodium lamp 6. High-pressure mercury lamp, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Incandescent filament (tall lamp) for spectrum viewing 2. Discharge lamps for spectrum viewing: neon, mercury 3. Fluorescent lamps: one bare tube and one phosphored tube. 4. Phosphors with UV lamp 5. High-pressure sodium lamp 6. High-pressure mercury lamp 7. Laser and diffraction slits Thanks, Lou

• 1. High-pressure sodium lamp 2. High-pressure mercury lamp 3. Laser and diffraction slits 4. Ohm's Law Demo with a Diode 5. Different colored LEDs with variable voltage source (show that you need more voltage for bluer diodes) Thanks, Lou
  
  Lou brings in his Canon HD camcorder to show better color/contrast of the diffraction grating spectrum. Since we cannot handle HDMI output easily, Lou brings in his ASUS color monitor.

• 1. Laser and diffraction slits 2. Ohm's Law Demo with a Diode 3. Different colored LEDs with variable voltage source (show that you need more voltage for bluer diodes) Thanks, Lou

• 1. Laser and diffraction slits 2. Optical bench with 2 different converging lenses, a ground-glass screen, a camera looking at that screen, a diaphragm to shrink the effective diameter of the lenses, and 3 different lamps at 3 different distances from the lens. 3. Large lens to image ceiling lights, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Optical bench with 2 different converging lenses, a ground-glass screen, a camera looking at that screen, a diaphragm to shrink the effective diameter of the lenses, and 3 different lamps at 3 different distances from the lens, Thanks, Lou

• 1. Optical bench with 2 different converging lenses, a ground-glass screen, a camera looking at that screen, a diaphragm to shrink the effective diameter of the lenses, and 3 different lamps at 3 different distances from the lens. 2. A small glass dish (the ~8" diameter cylinder that's about 3" tall?) with water in it to submerge my watch and show total internal reflection. 3. The flashlight with pouring water demo -- the light follows the stream of water. Thanks, Lou

• 1. The flashlight with pouring water demo -- the light follows the stream of water. 2. The ohm's law demo (fixed or not) with a MOSFET to show that I can turn it on or off with my fingers carrying charge to or from the gate. 3. The audio amplifier based on a MOSFET, with a speaker and sound source, to show that I can carry enough current through my hands to get the amplifier working. Thanks for working to fix the Ohm's law demo! Thanks, Lou

• 1. The mousetrap chain reaction 2. The radioactive sources and geiger counter Thanks, Lou