Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

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PHYS 2010 001: Principles of Physics I

•  video  - Tablecloth Pull

• horizontal air track with carts

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Free Fall Acceleration
• Ball Collection
  (assorted balls)

• Coordinate Systems and Vectors
  (along with wooden dowel x, y, z axes)
• Vector Addition
•  video  - Ballistics Cart

•  video  - Shoot and Drop
•  video  - The Monkey and the Hunter
•  video  - Range Gun
  (set ball launch and blue bucket opening heights equal, and show 1-click power & 30 or 60 degrees has the ball land in same spot, whereas, at 45 degrees the ball overshoots)

• horizontal air track & roll of toilet paper ... I want to use it as a demo of inertia, too: if you pull quick, the paper is cut at the seam, but if slow, the paper rolls out

• Hit the Nail on the Head
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil
•  video  - Hanging Masses
  (string jerk)
•  video  - Inclined Plane

• springs, strings & scales, and surface area independence of friction using the two different size blue wood plates

•  photos  - Knot in Static Equilibrium
• Coefficient of Friction
• Hooke's Law

• springs & blocks

• Whirligig
•  video  - Spinning Tray
• Centripetal Acceleration
•  video  - The Atwood Machine
•  photos  - Knot in Static Equilibrium

• Potential Energy
•  video  - Pendulum with Moveable Peg

•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - Pendulum with Moveable Peg
•  video  - Loop - the - Loop

• styrofoam "center of mass" toy with the two lights and tennis ball on a string - AL will try to get some fresh N batteries for one of the lights

• Egg in a Sheet
• Ballistic Pendulum
•  video  - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket
•  video  - Air Track Collisions
  (air track)

• ball on a string

• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia
• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
• Hero's engine
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force

• universal gravity demo?

• variable mass on a spring, assortment of springs, penduli different lengths - same mass, penduli different mass - same length

•  video  - Transverse Waves
•  video  - Longitudinal Waves
•  video  - Standing Waves
• Bell in a Vacuum
•  video  - Doppler Buzzer
•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats
•  video  - Air Driven Organ Pipe

•  video  - Pascal's Vases
• Hydraulic Press
•  video  - Crush the Soda Can
• Magdeburg Hemispheres
•  video  - Archimedes' Principle I
• Archimedes Principle III
  (just need #2 with Helium balloon)
•  video  - Venturi Tube
  (removed first manometer and plug up hole with rubber stopper, stopper up one end of removed manometer to show uneven level)
•  video  - Air Flow Dynamics
  (atomizer, ping pong ball with funnel, plates)
•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats
•  video  - Air Driven Organ Pipe

• Absolute Zero
•  video  - Thermal Expansion
• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases
•  video  - Heat Conduction
•  video  - Thermal Conductivity
• Boiling Water in a Paper Cup
• Ice Bomb (expansion of water upon freezing)
•  video  - Boiling by Cooling
•  video  - Boiling by Reducing Pressure

•  video  - Reversible and Irreversible Processes
•  video  - Steam Engine
• Heat Engines
  (Dippy Duck)