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PHYS 1060-001: How Things Work

• AirPro Hockey pucks
•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil
•  video  - Hanging Masses
• Razor Scooter

•  video  - Shoot and Drop
• Ball Collection
• Weighing
• Distortion Loops
•  video  - Hovercraft

• A basketball, a piece of sponge which is big enough for the basketball to stand on it. (Here I would like to show the denting and undenting between the basketball and sponge--denting of the table is not so easy to see.)

•  video  - Shoot and Drop
• Push Me Pull Me Carts
•  photos  - Knot in Static Equilibrium
•  video  - Inclined Plane
•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - Loop - the - Loop

• 1) one seesaw or something similar 2) two sticks, one is of the twice length of the other one.

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia
•  video  - Inclined Plane
•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - Loop - the - Loop
• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
• Wheatstone Bridge

• Water Rocket
•  video  - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket
•  video  - Air Track Collisions
•  video  - Battering Ram Collisions

• 1) Plastic tape and a beaker (: stick two pieces of plastic tape together, one on top of the other and peel them apart – they’ll attract) 2) A small balloon.

• Water Rocket
•  video  - Air Track Collisions
•  video  - Battering Ram Collisions
•  video  - Kinds of Charge and Charging

• one metallic Ball hanging from a nonconducting string, one teflon stick, one piece of silkcloth, one Electroscope, Bits of paper (Here I would like to show the difference of electrical polarization between insulator and conductor)

• Water Rocket
•  video  - Charging by Induction
•  video  - Van de Graaff Generator
  ( Could you please put one needle-like stick together with the Van De Graaff generator? I would like to show the by using the needle, the shock I will get would be smaller. Thank you. )
•  video  - Gauss' Law
•  video  - Parallel Plate Capacitor

•  video  - Xerox
•  video  - Electric Fields
• Radio in Faraday Cage
•  video  - Lightning Rod
  (Could you please put one needle-like stick together with the Van De Graaff generator? Thank you.)
•  video  - Electric Wind
•  video  - Parallel Plate Capacitor

• two flashlights: one with lightbulb, one with LED light

• Visual Electricity Demonstrator and Generator
• DC Circuits
• Ohm's Law
• Blowing a Fuse

• Barkhausen Effect
• Electromagnet
• Magnet collection
•  video  - Magnetic Fields w/ Iron Filings
•  video  - Magnetic Fields w/ Matrix of Iron Rods
•  video  - Magnetic Fields Associated with Current Carrying Wires 1

•  video  - Kinds of Charge and Charging
•  video  - Wimshurst Machine
•  video  - Parallel Plate Capacitor

• Hit the Nail on the Head
• Barkhausen Effect
• Electromagnet
•  video  - Magnetic Fields Associated with Current Carrying Wires 1
•  video  - Forces Between Current Carrying Wires
•  video  - Back EMF in an Inductor
•  video  - Transformers

•  video  - Forces Between Current Carrying Wires
•  video  - Back EMF in an Inductor
•  video  - Transformers
•  video  - Electromagnetic Radiation

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Electric Wind
• Ringing LC Circuit w/ Battery
•  video  - Microwave Oven Experiments
•  video  - Electromagnetic Radiation
• FM Radio

•  video  - Standing Waves
• Open / Closed Resonance Tube
•  video  - Microwave Oven Experiments

•  video  - Sunset

• Soap Film Standing Waves
•  video  - Ray Optics Kit
• Rainbow II
•  video  - Polarization of Light

• Arago's (Poisson's) Spot
• Additive Color Mixing
•  video  - Emission Spectra
• Fluorescence

• A Magnifying glass, a lit candle and a screen to project the image (to form a real image, and focusing)

•  video  - Ray Optics Kit