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PHYS 1050-001: How Things Work

• 1. The tablecloth trick 2. Razor Scooter I will bring: 1. Bananas and Apples 2. Knife 3. Spring-mounted knife 4. Linguine 5. Air Pucks 6. Razor Scooter Stand 7. Bubbling Liquid Toy Thanks, Lou

• 1. Razor Scooter 2. Razor Scooter Stand 3. Baseballs (2) 4. Basketball 5. Red Bowling Ball 6. Golf ball 7. Racketball 8. Bouncyball 9. Soda cans, some full and some empty, ... I will bring: 1. Book, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseballs (2) 2. Basketball 3. Red Bowling Ball 4. Golf ball 5. Racketball 6. Bouncyball, ... I will bring: 1. Book, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Baseballs (2) 2. Basketball 3. Red Bowling Ball 4. Golf ball 5. Racketball 6. Bouncyball 7. 2 Green Grocery spring scales 8. 5 kg weight 9. 2 different Dial spring scales 10. Several different wooden blocks for ramp 11. 2 Pasco Carts, ... I will bring: 1. My hinged ramp 2. My wagon, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Red bowling ball 2. My ramp 3. My wagon 4. 5 kg weight 5. Wood blocks 6. 2 different pasco-type spring scales 7. Basketball 8. Largest mallet (spins around center of mass) 9. Large aluminum beam and large pivot 10. 4 1-kg masses (to play seesaw) 11. The 2 moment-of-inertia bars (one large moment, one small moment), ... I will bring: 1. My seesaw beam and support 2. Wobble ball, ... Thanks, Lou

• 1. Basketball 2. Largest mallet 3. My seesaw beam and support 4. Mini-me 5. Large aluminum beam and large pivot 6. 4 1-kg masses (to play seesaw) 7. The 2 moment-of-inertia bars (one large moment, one small moment) 8. 5 kg block weight 9. Two different (pasco) spring scales 10. The snake in the can 11. Batteries for my huge capacitor 12. A bicycle wheel (to roll around on the table) 13. 3 metal rods (to support my wheel-less wagon) 14. Big ball bearings (for show-and-tell), ... I will bring: 1. My two wagons 2. My huge capacitor and screwdriver 3. LED lights

• 1. Basketball 2. Two different (pasco) spring scales 3. The snake in the can 4. Batteries for my huge capacitor 5. A bicycle wheel (to roll around on the table) 6. 3 metal rods (to support my wheel-less wagon) 7. Big ball bearings (for show-and-tell) 8. Pasco cart 9. swivel chair 10. dumbbells 11. bicycle wheel and grinder to spin it up, ... I will bring: 1. My two wagons 2. My huge capacitor and screwdriver 3. LED lights 4. Bow-and-arrow firestarter 5. Air hockey table, ... Thanks! Lou

• 1. Red bowling ball 2. Swivel chair 3. Dumbbells 4. Bicycle wheel and grinder to spin it up 5. Air hockey table 6. Hooke's Law demo 7. Some big (visible) springs 8. Green Grocery Scale 9. 5 kg weight (block shaped), ... Thanks! Lou

• 1. Hooke's Law demo 2. Some big (visible) springs 3. Green Grocery Scale 4. 5 kg weight (blocky shape) Thanks!

• 1. Green Grocery Scale 2. 5 kg weight (blocky shape) 3. 2 baseballs 4. basketball (properly inflated) 5. bouncy ball 6. happy and unhappy balls 7. golf ball 8. tennis ball 9. beanbag 10. sand or bean-filled tray (nothing bounces on it) 11. trampoline-like surface (anything bounces on it) 12. wooden plate (bouncing from a moving surface) 13. hanging baseball bat 14. baseball mallets, ... Thanks!

• 1. 2 baseballs 2. basketball (properly inflated) 3. bouncy ball 4. happy and unhappy balls 5. golf ball 6. tennis ball 7. beanbag 8. sand or bean-filled tray (nothing bounces on it) 9. trampoline-like surface (anything bounces on it) 10. wooden plate (bouncing from a moving surface) 11. hanging baseball bat 12. baseball mallets, ... Thanks!

• 1. The water-filled rectangle on the horizontal spinning disk 2. Wineglass (short!) and pizza platter 3. Ball on the loop-the-loop track 4. Pink ball on string, ... I think that's it! ... Thanks, Lou

• Today is bicycles and I'll need: 1. The stability track (red plastic) 2. A broom (to balance in my hand) 3. Stability tower demo 4. A bicycle wheel and grinder (to spin up and let precess) I've got my own bicycle that I'll bring . Thanks, Lou

• Today is bicycles and I'll need: 1. A bicycle wheel and grinder (to spin up and let precess) 2. My bicycle 3. Rocket demos: 0. The Pasco cart and medicine ball 1. The rocket cart 2. The water rockets 3. The bottle rocket that flies up to the back of the class 4. The little match rockets with a paperclip and lighter 4. The arrows on strings with and without fletching, ... Thanks, Lou

• I'll be doing balloons today, so I'll need: 1. Hot air balloon 2. Liquid nitrogen and the clear dewar 3. Tank of helium 4. Big glass box, inverted, to show that helium balloons don't float in helium 5. Methane-filled soap bubble demo, with candle to ignite the bubbles I'll bring various balloons Thanks! Lou

• I'll be doing balloons today, so I'll need: 1. Hot air balloon 2. Tank of helium 3. Big glass box, inverted, to show that helium balloons don't float in helium 4. Methane-filled soap bubble demo, with candle to ignite the bubbles 5. Water and clean straws 6. Squeeze/spray bottle of water 7. Bicycle pump (to show the pumping process, albeit with air) 8. Pascal's vases 9. Some uninflated balloons (to inflate) Thanks! Lou

• I'll be doing balloons today, so I'll need: 1. Water and clean straws 2. Squeeze/spray bottle of water 3. Water pump (syringe-based) 4. Bicycle pump (to show the pumping process, albeit with air) 5. Pascal's vases 6. Some uninflated balloons (to inflate) 7. Water tank and various capillary tubes (pousielles law), ... Thanks! - Lou

• I'll be doing balloons today, so I'll need: 1. Pascal's vases 2. Water tank that slides up post, with hose and nozzle 3. Water tank on catwalk, with hose and nozzle 4. Water tank and various capillary tubes (pousielles law) 5. Two plates that stick to one another when air flows between them 6. Ping Pong ball suspended in funnel 7. "paint sprayer" -- water in jar, with pipe having domed top and air nozzle to spray across dome 8. Rheological fluid in dish, with ~1/2 rod to move through it at various speeds 9. Water hammer toy 10. Rubber Mallet (I'll bring bottles to break) -- probably won't get this far. Thanks! Lou

• I'll be doing watering & ball sports today, so I'll need: 0. Tank of water and the capillary tubes 1. Two plates that stick to one another when air flows between them 2. Ping Pong ball suspended in funnel 3. "paint sprayer" -- water in jar, with pipe having domed top and air nozzle to spray across dome 4. Rheological fluid in dish, with ~1/2 rod to move through it at various speeds 5. Water hammer toy 6. Rubber Mallet and Bottles to break. 7. Beach ball and blower 8. Curveball toys, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Demos for today: 1. Two plates that stick to one another when air flows between them 2. Ping Pong ball suspended in funnel 3. "paint sprayer" -- water in jar, with pipe having domed top and air nozzle to spray across dome 4. Rubber Mallet and Bottles to break (remaining 2 bottles). 5. Beach ball and blower 6. Curveball toys, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Demos for today: 1. Beach ball and blower 2. Curveball toys 3. Foam Airplane, ... Thanks! Lou

• Demos for today: 1. Beach ball and blower 2. Curveball toys 3. Foam Airplane Thanks! Lou

• Today I'll drift into woodstoves, so I'll need: 1. Foam Airplane 2. 3-metal conduction of heat demo (with hanging metal balls) 3. Piece of thin-walled metal (to hold and heat red hot) 4. Convection in water demo, ... Thanks, Lou

• Okay, this time I really well teach about woodstoves, so I'll need: Convection in water demo A test tube to fill with water and heat from the top while holding in my fingers The light source, reflectors, and match demo (radiation igniting the match) The hot cube and the bolometer to see its thermal radiation. A demo to show that ice starts colder than 32F / 0C heats up melts at 32F / 0C and then heats up when its all water. For #5, I'm thinking to freeze some water with a thermocouple/thermistor in it with LN2, then heat that ice in a beaker on a hotplate. I'm also thinking that having some ice, some water, a thermistor/thermocouple, and a magnetic stirrer would be helpful. This has always been a tough demo to pull off well, ... Thanks, Lou

• Okay, this time I really will teach about woodstoves, so I'll need: 1. The demo to show that ice starts colder than 32F / 0C heats up melts at 32F / 0C and then heats up when its all water. 2. Vacuum system to boil water at room temperature 3. Can-crushing demo (boil water, then condense it), ... Thanks, Lou

• Okay, this time I really will teach about woodstoves, so I'll need: 1. Can-crushing demo (boil water, then condense it) 2. Some non-stinky glass fiber, a penny, and a blow torch (to heat the penny red hot in my hand, hopefully) Thanks, Lou

• For today, I'd like: The two energy/entropy boxes, ... Thanks! ... Lou

• For today, I'd like: 1. The two energy/entropy boxes 2. The jug, thermistor, and bicycle pump 3. The taken-apart dehumidifier, ... Thanks! ... Lou

• For today, I'd like: 1. The taken-apart dehumidifier 2. The little steam engine 3. The exploding milk jug & spark ignitor 4. The fire plunger & little paper bits that ignite, ... Thanks! ... Lou

• 1. The exploding milk jug & spark ignitor 2. The fire plunger & little paper bits that ignite, ... Thanks! ... Lou

• For today, I'd like: 1. Mass hanging on spring (harmonic oscillator) 2. Set of 3 pendulums 3. bowling ball pendulum 4. tuning forks (several different pitches) and mallet 5. torsion balance disk (hanging from post and oscillating rotationally) 6. Singing rod (aluminum) and rosin 7. Big uninflated balloons (to make oscillators resembling singing rod) 8. A big bouncy ball 9. Mount for my pendulum clock, ... I will bring up: 1. My pendulum clock 2. My carriage clock, ... Thanks! Lou

• For today, I'd like: 1. Mass hanging on spring (harmonic oscillator) 2. Set of 3 pendulums 3. bowling ball pendulum 4. tuning forks (several different pitches) and mallet 5. torsion balance disk (hanging from post and oscillating rotationally) 6. Singing rod (aluminum) and rosin 7. Big uninflated balloons (to make oscillators resembling singing rod) 8. A big bouncy ball 9. Mount for my pendulum clock 10. Vibrating string demo, ... I will bring up: 1. My pendulum clock 2. My carriage clock 3. Crystal oscillator from a watch, ... Thanks! Lou

• For today, I'd like: 1. Bowling ball pendulum 2.Vibrating string demo 3. My violin 4. A bow 5. Two resonant tuning forks, with boxes and mallet 6. Resonant pendulums (energy transfer from one to the other) 6. Break-the-wineglass demo 7. Tacoma Narrows video 8. Tall aluminum pivot (L-beam) used for seesaw demo (as sound 9. board for my music box) 10. Carpet tubes and burner (with metal tube, too) 11. Coke bottle 12. Helium for coke bottle 13. Swinging tube, ... I will bring up: 1. Opened music box, ... Thanks! Lou