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PHYS 1060-001: How Things Work

• For today, I'll need: 1. Razor Scooter 2. Tablecloth Trick, ... I will bring: 1. Spring-knife 2. Apples 3. Bananas 4. Spaghetti 5. Free knife 6. Airpucks, ... And I'd like to have the video recorded, so that I can post it after class. Thanks, Lou

• 1. Razor Scooter 2. Hovercraft 3. Some full and empty soda cans (demonstrate mass), ... I will bring: 1. Airpucks, ... And I'd like to have the video recorded, so that I can post it after class.

• 1. 2 Baseballs 2. The red bowling ball 3. A basketball 4. A big bouncy ball 5. A tennis ball 6. A golf ball

• 1. 2 Baseballs 2. The red bowling ball 3. A basketball 4. A big bouncy ball 5. A tennis ball 6. A golf ball 7. 2 Green spring scales 8. 5 kg weight 9. 2 different dial spring scales (for pulling wagon up ramp) 10. Several different block to tilt my ramp with 11. Both Pasco Carts, ... I will bring: 1. My ramp 2. My little wagon 3. Water balloons, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. 2 Green spring scales 2. 5 kg weight 3. 2 different dial spring scales (for pulling wagon up ramp) 4. Several different block to tilt my ramp with 5. Both Pasco Carts, ... I will bring: 1. My ramp 2. My little wagon 3. Water balloons, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Mini-me 2. Basketball 3. Seesaw beam and pivot 4. 1 meter stick 5. 1 2-meter stick, ... I will bring: 1. My seesaw beam 2. My Wobbleball

• 1. Mini-me 2. Basketball 3. Seesaw beam and pivot, with some 1-kg masses and the 5-kg mass 4. 1 meter stick 5. 1 2-meter stick 6. Spring-in-the-peanuts can 7. Baseball 8. A big balloon, uninflated 9. Some old (broken) super-magnets to jump at one another 10. The batteries for my big capacitor 11. Bowling ball (for the pendulum) 12. Two color beans in glass tray (for mixing and failure to unmix), ... I will bring: 1. My seesaw beam 2. My big capacitor and screwdriver 3. Bow-and-Arrow firestarter Thanks, Lou

• 1. Spring-in-the-peanuts can 2. Baseball 3. A big balloon, uninflated 4. Some old (broken) super-magnets to jump at one another 5. The batteries for my big capacitor 6. Bowling ball (for the pendulum) 7. Two color beans in glass tray (for mixing and failure to unmix) 8. Pasco Cart 9. Swivel Chair 10. Bicycle Wheel and grinder 11. Dumbbells, ... I will bring: 1. My big capacitor and screwdriver 2. Bow-and-Arrow firestarter 3. My airhockey table Thanks, Lou

• 1. Pasco Cart 2. Swivel Chair 3. Bicycle Wheel and grinder 4. Dumbbells 5. Bowling ball pendulum 6. Pith balls on supports 7. Teflon and Acrylic rods, with rubbing surfaces (+ and -) 8. Electroscope (AL adds acrylic & brass rods that insert into top) 9. Glass beaker 10. Van de Graaff generator 11. Plastic stool 12. Pom-pom 13. Styrofoam cup, ... I will bring: 1. My airhockey table 2. Adhesive tape (for static charge) 3. Long, thin balloons, ... Thanks, Lou, ... just before class, Lou brought in the baseball, softball and hockey puck mallets, and two wood blocks w/ nails

• 1. Pith balls on supports 2. Teflon and Acrylic rods, with rubbing surfaces (+ and -) 3. Electroscope 4. Glass beaker 5. Van de Graaff generator 6. Plastic stool 7. Pom-pom 8. Styrofoam cup 9. Coulomb ice bucket and transfer ball (thanks for thinking of this one on Wednesday), ... I will bring: 1. Adhesive tape (for static charge) 2. Long, thin balloons, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Electroscope, with metal and plastic plug-ins 2. Van de Graaff generator 3. Plastic stool 4. Coulomb ice bucket and transfer ball 5. Needle (to discharge the Van de Graaff via corona discharge) 6. Whimshurst machine 7. Candle for Whimshurst 8. Bell for Whimshurst, ... I will bring: 1. Adhesive tape (for static charge) 2. Long, thin balloons, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Electroscope, with metal and plastic plug-ins 2. Van de Graaff generator 3. Plastic stool 4. Coulomb ice bucket and transfer ball 5. Needle (to discharge the Van de Graaff via corona discharge) 6. Whimshurst machine 7. Candle for Whimshurst 8. Bell for Whimshurst

• 1. Whimshurst machine 2. Candle for whimshurst 3. Bell for whimshurst 4. Car battery, Lightbulb, and knife switch circuit 5. Nichrome wire for short circuit addition to #4 above 6. Visible alkaline battery "flashlight" equivalent circuit 7. A 2-cell flashlight with a lightbulb (operates when cells are reversed) 8. A 2 or 3 cell flashlight with an led (doesn't operate when cells are reversed)

• 1. Car battery, Lightbulb, and knife switch circuit 2. Nichrome wire for short circuit addition to #1 above 3. Visible alkaline battery "flashlight" equivalent circuit 4. A 2-cell flashlight with a lightbulb (operates when cells are reversed) 5. A 2 or 3 cell flashlight with an led (doesn't operate when cells are reversed) 6. Ohm's law demo

• 1. Car battery, Lightbulb, and knife switch circuit 2. Visible alkaline battery "flashlight" equivalent circuit 3. Ohm's law demo 4. 2 bar magnets on swivels 5. 2 bar magnets without swivels 6. A bar magnet that I can "break" (already broken, but rejoined) 7. Two super-magnets that I can have jump at one another 8. Array of little magnetic arrows 9. Strong magnet to align or dis-align those arrows 10. Different metals: steel, non-magnetic stainless, copper, aluminum 11. Barkhausen effect demo 12. some iron powder -- I want to show the magnetization of a credit card strip 13. magnetizer or "pulsed electromagnet gadget"

• 1. 2 bar magnets on swivels 2. 2 bar magnets without swivels 3. Array of little magnetic arrows 4. Strong magnet to align or dis-align those arrows 5. Different metals: steel, non-magnetic stainless, copper, aluminum 6. Barkhausen effect demo 7. Iron Powder 8. Magnetizer 9. Big horned electromagnet 10. Electromagnet I can hang from 11. Transmission line system - DC (for now), with thin wires and thick wires 12. The power-line is AC demo with LEDs (I can wave it in the dark and people can see the LEDs winking on/off or different colors) 13. AC magnet with jumping rings and LN2 14. Coil and light bulb for AC magnet 15. Complete transformer with light bulbs (approximately 120 V to 120 V) 16. Step-down version (melt nail) 17. Step-Up version (Jacob's Ladder)

• 1. Transmission line system - DC and AC, with thin wires and thick wires, and near and far lightbulbs 2. The power-line is AC demo with LEDs (I can wave it in the dark and people can see the LEDs winking on/off or different colors) 3. AC magnet with jumping rings and LN2 4. Coil and light bulb for AC magnet 5. Complete transformer with light bulbs (approximately 120 V to 120 V) 6. Step-down version (melt nail) 7. Step-Up version (Jacob's Ladder) 8. Your new Tesla Coil

• 1. Transmission line system - DC and AC, with thin wires and thick wires, and near and far lightbulbs 2. The power-line is AC demo with LEDs (I can wave it in the dark and people can see the LEDs winking on/off or different colors) 3. AC magnet with jumping rings and LN2 4. Coil and light bulb for AC magnet 5. Complete transformer with light bulbs (approximately 120 V to 120 V) 6. Step-down version (melt nail) 7. Step-Up version (Jacob's Ladder) 8. Your new Tesla Coil 9. Coil with LEDs and a magnet that can induce currents in it. 10. Hand-crank generator

• 1. Transmission line system - DC and AC, with thin wires and thick wires, and near and far lightbulbs 2. AC magnet with jumping rings and LN2 3. Coil and light bulb for AC magnet 4. Big electromagnet with knife switch 5. Radio transmitter and lightbulb receiver antenna pair 6. Radio transmitter and audio radio receiver to listen to the transmission

• 1. Radio transmitter and lightbulb receiver antenna pair 2. Radio transmitter and audio radio receiver to listen to the transmission, ... NOTE: Al placed out our pair of yellow Motorola Talkabout 2-way Radios on charger stand

• 1. Radio transmitter and lightbulb receiver antenna pair 2. Radio transmitter and audio radio receiver to listen to the transmission

• 1. Radio transmitter and lightbulb receiver antenna pair 2. Radio transmitter and audio radio receiver to listen to the transmission 3. Microwave oven 4. CDs to burn up 5. An incandescent lightbulb to make glow in a beaker with a little water in it 6. Some matches in putty to make plasma balls 7. A plastic dome to catch plasma balls (if you can find a suitable bottle), ... I'll provide: 1. neon bulbs for microwave testing, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Your new FM radio system (CD player & microphone) 2. The AC electromagnet and lightbulb coil 3. Microwave oven 4. CDs to burn up 5. An incandescent lightbulb to make glow in a beaker with a little water in it 6. Some matches in putty to make plasma balls 7. A dome to catch plasma balls 8. Flashlight to help see magnetron antenna inside, ... I'll provide: 1. neon bulbs for microwave testing, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. The sunset demo 2. The ELMO reflection and refraction kit on the doc camera 3. The dispersion demo with the prism 4. The interference demo with the soap film, ... I'll provide: 1. silicone rubber for Rayleigh scattering, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. The elmo reflection and refraction kit on the doc camera 2. The dispersion demo with the prism 3. The interference demo with the soap film 4. A lamp to create glare from the table and polarizers to view the polarization of that glare, ... I'll provide: 1. silicone rubber for Rayleigh scattering

• 1. A lamp to create glare from the table and polarizers to view the polarization of that glare 2. Do we have a color mixing box - red, green, blue light together gives white? I seem to remember one long ago 3. Neon tube, mercury tube, helium tube and high voltage supply 4. Long spring and clamp on table

  to demonstrate standing waves 5. Camera with diffraction grating to show spectrum of neon tube (or other tube) 6. Colored phosphors and UV lamp 7. Pyrex beaker immersed in the right salad oil essentially vanishes -- same index of refraction

• 1. The oil-filled tank and the Pyrex objects to disappear (I forgot on Friday! Sorry!) 2. Neon tube, mercury tube, helium tube and high voltage supply 3. Camera with diffraction grating to show spectrum of neon tube (or other tube) 4. Colored phosphors and UV lamp 5. Sodium vapor lamp (high-pressure) 6. Mercury vapor lamp (high-pressure) 7. Ceiling light fixture with uncoated tube and coated fluorescent tube, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Sodium vapor lamp (high-pressure) 2. Mercury vapor lamp (high-pressure) 3. Camera with diffraction grating 4. Four 9V batteries for my super-bright LED bars 5. A power supply and different colored LEDs (so I can show the voltage needed to light the different colors -- lower voltage for red than for blue 6. Slits, meshes, and diffraction grating with a laser -- to show diffraction effects, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. A power supply and different colored LEDs so I can show the voltage needed to light the different colors -- lower voltage for red than for blue 2. Slits, meshes, and diffraction grating with a laser -- to show diffraction effects, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Slits, meshes, and diffraction grating with a laser -- to show diffraction effects. 2. Optic rail, two lenses (different focal lengths), 3 light sources (different distances), screen and camera 3. A large converging lens (to image the lights on a sheet of paper) 4. Fesnel lens 5. Aperture for optic rail

• 1. Optic rail, two lenses (different focal lengths), 3 light sources (different distances), screen and camera 2. A large converging lens (to image the lights on a sheet of paper) 3. Fesnel lens 4. Aperture for optic rail 5. Elmo Optics for total internal reflection 6. Flashlight-water demo for total internal reflection 7. Information transfer through a fiber optic demonstration or something showing fiber optics at work

• 1. Total internal reflection demos 2. Flashlight-water demo for total internal reflection 3. Information transfer through a fiber optic demonstration (or something showing fiber optics at work) 4. MOSFET in the Ohms law demonstrator (switch on and off with tiny charge, using finger) 5. Audio player with MOSFET amplifier (the big plug-board)

• 1. Radioactive sources and detector(s)

• 1. Radioactive sources and detector(s) 2. Spark chamber (cool!) 3. Mousetrap bomb

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