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PHYS 1060-001: How Things Work

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

• 1. Razor Scooter and Stand 2. 2 baseballs 3. Red bowling ball 4. Bouncy ball (large) 5. Tennis ball 6. Two full soda cans 7. Two empty soda cans, ... I will bring: 1. Air Pucks, ... Thanks, Lou

• For today, I'll need: 2. 2 baseballs 3. Red bowling ball 4. Bouncy ball (large) 5. Tennis ball 6. Basketball 7. Football (if we have one), ... Thanks, Lou

• Today, I'll need: 1. Football 2. Basketball 3. 2 Baseballs 4. Red bowling ball (on lab table) 5. 2 green grocery spring scales 6. 2 Pasco carts 7. 5 kg weight 8. Wood blocks (for ramp) 9. 2 different dial spring scales, ... I'll bring: 1. My ramp 2. My wagon 3. Water balloons, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Today, I'll need: 1. Red bowling ball (on lab table) 2. 2 green grocery spring scales 3. 5 kg weight 4. Wood blocks (for ramp) 5. 2 different dial spring scales 6. My ramp 7. My wagon, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Red bowling ball (on lab table) 2. Basketball 3. 5 kg weight 4. Wood blocks (for ramp) 5. 2 different dial spring scales 6. My ramp 7. My wagon 8. Long aluminum beam and short V-angle support (seesaw) 9. 4 1-kg weights 10. Moment-of-inertia bars, ... I'll bring: 1. Swivel beam and support 2. Wobbleball, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Today, I'll need: 1. Long aluminum beam and short V-angle support (seesaw) 2. 4 1-kg weights 3. Moment-of-inertia bars 4. Mini me 5. Rubber Mallet 6. 5-kg weight 7. 3 steel bars (rollers for my wagon) 8. Dial spring scales (2 different) 9. (My Swivel beam and support) 10. (My Wobbleball), ... I'll bring: 1. Wheel-less wagon, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Today, I'll need: 1. 5-kg weight 2. 3 steel bars (rollers for my wagon) 3. Dial spring scales (2 different) 4. (My two wagons, one with wheels and one without wheels) 5. Baseball 6. Snake-in-a-can toy 7. Batteries for my big capacitor 8. Red Bowling ball pendulum 9. Colored beans in a dish (mixing) 10. Big ball bearings, ... I'll bring: Wheel-less wagon Big Capacitor Bow firestarter Big roller bearing, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Today, I'd like: 1. Two large pith balls 2. Teflon rod and silk 3. Acrylic rod and Teflon 4. Electroscope 5. A clean glass beaker -- 600 or 1000 mL size (about) 6. Van de Graaf 7. Pom pom 8. Styrofoam cup 9. Plastic stool 10. Mirror (for people to look at themselves), ... I'll bring: 1. Tape 2. Balloons, ... Thanks, - Lou

• Today, I'd like: 1. Two large pith balls 2. Teflon rod and silk 3. Acrylic rod and Teflon 4. Electroscope 5. Van de Graaf 6. Plastic stool 7. Mirror (for people to look at themselves) 8. Faraday's ice bucket 9. Sharp needle of van de Graaf 10. A CdS cell, a flashlight, and something to show that its conductivity changes with exposure to light, ... Thanks, - Lou

• Today, I'd like: 1. Two large pith balls 2. Teflon rod and silk 3. Acrylic rod and Teflon 4. Electroscope 5. Van de Graaf 6. Plastic stool 7. Mirror (for people to look at themselves) 8. Faraday's ice bucket 9. Sharp needle of van de Graaff, ... Thanks, - Lou

• Midterm Exam - no demos - Cass Sackett will be doing a few demos in PHS 204: - Liquid nitrogen, with the usual toys (racket ball, balloons, banana) - Hydrogen and mercury spectral lamps, plus diffraction gratings for students - The open frame HeNe laser - The doppler buzzer

• I'm on to flashlights today -- 1. Car battery 2. lightbulb for Car battery 3. knife switch 4. wires to complete the circuit 5. incandescent bulb flashlight 6. LED flashlight (I want to flip the batteries in the two flashlights) 7. short circuit (nichrome wire) for the car battery circuit, ... I'll bring: 1. my collection of little trucks - Lou

• 1. Car battery 2. lightbulb for Car battery 3. knife switch 4. wires to complete the circuit 5. short circuit (nichrome wire) for the car battery circuit 6. 3 D-cell battery circuit with lightbulb (I want to be able to flip one of the batteries backward. 7. Parallel-series circuit demo 8. Two bar magnets on swivels 9. One bar magnet to hold 10. One pre-broken bar magnet 11. Some strong magnets to jump at one another - already broken is fine

• 1. Two bar magnets on swivels 2. One bar magnet to hold 3. One pre-broken bar magnet 4. Some strong magnets to jump at one another (already broken is fine) 5. Array of little compass needles in plastic mount & strong magnet to align them 6. Barkhausen Effect demo 7. Steel, copper, and aluminum (some materials are ferromagnetic, others are not) 8. Electromagnet to hang from 9. Big horn electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it

• 1. Two bar magnets on swivels 2. One bar magnet to hold 3. Some strong magnets to jump at one another (already broken is fine) 4. Array of little compass needles in plastic mount & strong magnet to align them 5. Barkhausen Effect demo 6. Steel, copper, and aluminum (some materials are ferromagnetic, others are not) 7. Electromagnet to hang from 8. Big horn electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it 9. 12V Car Battery, Two 12V Lightbulbs, and long wires: thin and thick 10. AC electromagnet, jumping rings, Liquid nitrogen, and coil-lamp

• 1. Coil with LEDs and big magnet (induction demo) 2. Big horn electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it 3. AC electromagnet, jumping rings, Liquid nitrogen, and coil-lamp 4. 12V Car Battery, Two 12V Lightbulbs, and long wires: thin and thick 5. 12V AC source (a transformer) to replace the car battery 6. Two big transformers to step up and then step down the power to the distant bulb 7. Step up transformer demo: jacob's ladder 8. Step down transformer demo: melt nail 9. One-to-one transformer demo (actually 1-2, but who cares)

• 1. Big horn electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it 2. AC electromagnet, jumping rings, Liquid nitrogen, and coil-lamp 3. 12V Car Battery, Two 12V Lightbulbs, and long wires: thin and thick 4. 12V AC source (a transformer) to replace the car battery 5. Two big transformers to step up and then step down the power to the distant bulb 6. Step up transformer demo: jacob's ladder 7. Step down transformer demo: melt nail 8. One-to-one transformer demo (actually 1-2, but who cares) 9. Tesla coil and fluorescent tubes, ... Thanks!

• 1. Big horn electromagnet and iron bar to stick on it 2. 12V Car Battery, Two 12V Lightbulbs, and long wires: thin and thick 3. 12V AC source (a transformer) to replace the car battery 4. Two big transformers to step up and then step down the power to the distant bulb 5. Tesla coil and fluorescent tubes 6. Copper coil with 2 LEDs and strong (conical) magnet to light the LEDs via induction 7. Copper and NdFeB magnets to show how induction opposes the motion of a magnet near a conductor 8. If you have a solenoid demo, that would be great. I'd like to show that iron gets pulled into the coil when current flows through the coil. 9. Superconductor demo (cube magnet levitating & quantum levitation disc). ... ... Thanks!

• 1. 12V Car Battery, Two 12V Lightbulbs, and long wires: thin and thick 2. 12V AC source (a transformer) to replace the car battery 3. Two big transformers to step up and then step down the power 4. to the distant bulb 5. Tesla coil and fluorescent tubes, ... Thanks to both of you, ... Lou

• I'm going to spend the hour talking about radio waves, without demos

• For today: 1. The transmitter and lightbulb-containing receiving antenna 2. A transmitter, audio source, and receiving radio, ... Thanks! - Lou

• For today: 1. The transmitter and lightbulb-containing receiving antenna 2. A transmitter, audio source, and receiving radio 3. A microwave oven 4. A glass beaker with some water and a transparent lightbulb 5. A beaker to prop CDs against (I'll bring a bunch of CDs) 6. A plastic bottle dome, a cork, and some matches (I may pre-burn the matches to form carbon because that's what ultimately superheats and forms the plasma balls), ... Thanks! Lou

• 1. Bulbs or lamps with different color temperatures (notably tungsten and sunlight) 2. Tank for Rayleigh-scattering -- sunset demonstration 3. Elmo optics for reflection and refraction on the demo camera 4. Dispersion in a prism demo, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Bulbs or lamps with different color temperatures (notably tungsten and sunlight) 2. Tank for Rayleigh-scattering -- sunset demonstration 3. Elmo optics for reflection and refraction on the demo camera 4. Dispersion in a prism demo 5. Soap film projected colors demo 6. Glare off the lab table, with polarizers (aligned to be viewed by one of the presets on the main camera), ... Thanks! - Lou

• Hi Al, 1. Dispersion in a prism demo 2. Soap film projected colors demo 3. Glare off the lab table, with polarizers (aligned to be viewed by one of the presets on the main camera) 4. Long spring (or rope might be better?) clamped at one end (to demonstrate standing waves) 5. Neon, Helium, Mercury vapor discharge tubes Phosphors and other fluorescent things 6. UV flashlight, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Long spring (or rope might be better?) clamped at one end (to demonstrate standing waves) 2. Neon, Helium, Mercury vapor discharge tubes 3. Phosphors and other fluorescent things 4. UV flashlight 5. Fluorescent lamp with phosphor missing 6. Mercury discharge lamp 7. Sodium discharge lamp, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Pyrex and salad oil demo: the pyrex disappears when immersed in salad oil 2. Neon, Helium, Mercury vapor discharge tubes 3. Phosphors and other fluorescent things 4. UV flashlight 5. Fluorescent lamp with phosphor missing 6. Mercury discharge lamp 7. Sodium discharge lamp 8. Colored LEDs and power supply for them, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Mercury discharge lamp 2. Sodium discharge lamp 3. Camera with grating 4. Colored LEDs and power supply for them 5. Laser and grating collection 6. Visible (opened) laser (if you still have one), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Colored LEDs and power supply for them 2. Laser and grating collection 3. Visible (opened) laser (if you still have one), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Colored LEDs and power supply for them 2. Laser and grating collection 3. Visible (opened) laser (if you still have one) 4. Optical bench 5. Ground glass screen and camera on that screen 6. 10cm, 20cm, and 30cm converging lenses 7. 3 light sources at different distances 8. An aperture (adjustable) 9. A big converging lens or magnifying glass (to show images of the ceiling lights), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Optical bench 2. Ground glass screen and camera on that screen 3. 10cm, 20cm, and 30cm converging lenses 4. 3 light sources at different distances 5. An aperture (adjustable) 6. A big converging lens or magnifying glass (to show images of the ceiling lights) 7. Open CD or DVD player (if you have one) -- on the elmo 8. Fiber optic link demo (audio going over a fiber) 9. Light following a water-fiber (pouring out of a hole) demo, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Open CD or DVD player (if you have one) -- on the elmo 2. Fiber optic link demo (audio going over a fiber) 3. Light following a water-fiber (pouring out of a hole) demo 4. Pinholes and a laser -- to show diffraction effects, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. The Ohm's law demo with a MOSFET. I'll turn it on and off with my fingers. 2. Radioactive sources and detector 3. Mousetrap chain reaction, ... Thanks! - Lou