Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory

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PHYS 1050-001: How Things Work

•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
• Quantum Levitation (Flux Pinning)

• bowling ball and basketball, and knife for cutting banana, filled and empty soda can

• AirPro Hockey pucks
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Bottle and Pencil
•  video  - Hanging Masses
• Razor Scooter
  (this along with a Skateboard will be even better!)
• Weighing

• 1) meter stick 2) crushable object to drop a ball on it (to show that a ball can push downward with a force greater than that ball’s weight) 3) water balloon :) Thanks

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Free Fall Acceleration
• Falling Drops of Milk
•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - Shoot and Drop
• Ball Collection
• Push Me Pull Me Carts
• Distortion Loops
•  video  - Inclined Plane
•  video  - Hovercraft

• 1) one seesaw or something similar 2) two sticks, one is of the twice length of the other one 3) Bicycle wheel

•  video  - The Monkey and the Hunter
•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia
• Potential Energy
• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum

• a small wagon with wheels, a spring scale (in units of newtons), basketball

•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket
•  video  - Air Table Collisions
  (Al will give you some Air Pro Hockey Pucks instead)
•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force
• Suitcase Gyro

• 1. A coil spring and weights 2. a pan spring scale 3. a bathroom scale 4. small ball Thanks :)

• Whirligig
•  video  - Spinning Tray
• Spinning Chain
• Centripetal Acceleration
•  video  - Loop - the - Loop
• Hooke's Law
• Spring Scale Collection

• 1.one can with liquid water and one can with frozen ice 2. Basketball and meter stick 3. A taut air bag (to drop a beanbag onto and have it bounce) 4. mini Trampoline 5. sand (to drop a ball into and have it not bounce) 6. a beanbag 7. Stability tower 7. The baseball bat, and the hanging system for it

• Ball Collection
•  video  - Stability Track
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force
• Happy and unhappy balls
•  video  - Pendula, Physical (Center of Percussion)

• balloons, an arrow without feather, an arrow with feather

• Push Me Pull Me Carts
  (no need for rope or scales)
• Fire Extinguisher Rocket Cart
• Water Rocket
• Rocket Tricycle
  (not available)
• Methanol Rocket (Explode a Milk Jug)
• Match Rocket
  (Al recommended not to do this demo, too much smoke, not enough thrust)

• 1. Uninflated big balloons 2. Magdeberg Hemispheres and vacuum pump 3. Marshmallow man frame 4. Archimedes Demonstration 5. Cartesian Diver (if you have one) 6. Hot Air Balloon 7. Tank of Helium 8. Liquid nitrogen and visible glass dewar 8. Big glass container inverted on blocks (to float a helium balloon inside and sink by filling container with helium) 9. Methane bubble and ignitor system

• 1. Several clean drinking straws 2. plastic soda/water bottle 3. A squeeze bottle of water to shoot across the room (to demonstrate pressurised water) 4. The short water tank and nozzle (metal tank that I can raise and lower) 5. Tall water tank and nozzle 6. Vacuum cannon - shoot foam balls at the wall using vacuum. 7. Water tank with various capillary tubes to show how pipe diameter affects flow

• Hydrostatic Pressure dependence on depth
•  video  - Pascal's Vases
•  video  - Weight of Air
• Toilet paper gun

• 1.Vortex cannon and 2. smoke generator 3. Water tank and different diameter glass tubes 4. Two plates that stick to one another when air flows between them 5. Paint sprayer demo 6. Rheologic liquid and a 1/2 rod (also a tongue depressor) 7. a transparent water pipe and some ink to show steady state flow 8. Water hammer demo and Medium sized rubber mallet 9. Water tank with various capillary tubes to show how pipe diameter affects flow 10. Empty glass bottles

•  video  - Venturi Tube

• 1. Leaf-blower and beach ball 2. Baseball 3. Basketball 4. Curveball throwing toy w/ foam 5. Corn starch

•  video  - Air Flow Dynamics
•  video  - Laminar and Turbulent Flow

• The foam airplane

•  video  - Airplane Wing in Wind Tunnel

• 1. Box of Kitchen Matches 2. Thin-walled stainless steel and wide-topped burner (I will heat the tube red-hot with the burner) 4. Radiation Bolometer with bar-display and Hot Cube 5. Liquid nitrogen 6. freezing the penny with liquid nitrogen demo

•  video  - Convection Box
• Convection Chimney
•  video  - Heat Conduction
•  video  - Thermal Conductivity
•  video  - Light The Match
• Boiling Water in a Paper Cup

• 1. Bell Jar Vacuum and beaker of water (to boil with vacuum) 2. Crush cans by boiling water in them and then immersing them in a pan of water (using tongs) 3. Liquid nitrogen and clear shallow dewar 4. more liquid nitrogen for making ice-cream

• Ice Bomb (expansion of water upon freezing)
•  video  - Thermocouple in Ice
•  video  - Boiling by Cooling
• Sling Psychrometer (Relative Humidity)

• 1. Crush cans by boiling water in them and then immersing them in a pan of water (using tongs) 2.five beakers of increasing sizes 3. The glass jug, bicycle pump, and temperature meter -- compressing heats, expanding cools

• Ice Bomb (expansion of water upon freezing)

• 1. The expanded dehumidifier 2. The toy steam engine 3. Dipping Duck 4. Fire Plunger with flash paper 5. a big syringe 6. air blaster to demonstrate working fluid

• 1. The expanded dehumidifier 2. The toy steam engine 3. Dipping Duck 4. Fire Plunger with flash paper 5. a big syringe 6. air blaster to demonstrate working fluid 7. two empty cardboard boxes 8. two plastic arrow heads to point to something 9. six identical balls/small objects

• Methanol Rocket (Explode a Milk Jug)

• 1. Bowling ball pendulum 2. Mass on a spring harmonic oscillator (something that shows a nice rhythmic bounce 3. Hacksaw blades and shaker 4. Tuning forks (several sizes and a mallet) 5. The various hanging pendulums with wooden balls (different periods) 6. The torsional oscillator 7. The frame for pendulum clock, with the clock on it.8. Vibrating string demo with flashlamp 9. Sonometer and bow and rosin 10. Pair of coupled pendulums -- resonant energy transfer 11. Pair of tuning forks and boxes 12. Break-the-wineglass demo 13. Two large identical tuning forks and the tuning fork hammer

• 1. The carpet tubes and burner to make them vibrate 2. The metal tube with the gauze in it 3. A tank of helium gas and a coke bottle 4. magnetic roller wave demo 5. The torsion bar wave demo 6. An aquarium tank with a few inches of water in it and a rod under it so I can slosh it 7. a quartz crystal under camera zoom to show