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PHYS 2010-001: Principles of Physics I

•  video  - Marble and Feather
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Ballistics Cart
• Ball Collection
  (basket ball and ping-pong ball to be dropped at the same time to show the mass independence )

•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - Shoot and Drop
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull

•  video  - Shoot and Drop
•  video  - The Monkey and the Hunter
•  video  - Range Gun
  (set ball launch and blue bucket opening heights equal, and show 1-click power & 30 or 60 degrees has the ball land in same spot, whereas, at 45 degrees the ball overshoots (just as in 2017) )

• Horizontal air track w/ single cart to show constant velocity motion

  "Toilet demo": Two rolls of toilet paper set on horizontal bars (one full roll, the other almost completely used)

• Hit the Nail on the Head
•  video  - Tablecloth Pull
•  video  - Hanging Masses
•  video  - Inclined Plane

• Whirligig
•  video  - Spinning Tray
• Centripetal Acceleration
•  video  - The Atwood Machine
•  photos  - Knot in Static Equilibrium
• Hooke's Law

• Centripetal Acceleration
• Weight Dependence of Friction
• Coefficient of Friction

• Centripetal Acceleration

• Big Clock projected on the front screen before 8:00am (till 8:50am) Side screen showing the whole auditorium 8:00am-8:50am

• Potential Energy
•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - Pendulum with Moveable Peg
•  video  - Loop - the - Loop

• Center of mass styrofoam w/ lights

  Dropping basket ball with ping pong ball on top (or tennis ball) to demonstrate the elastic collision

• Reaction Cars
•  video  - 2-Liter Bottle Rocket
•  video  - Air Track Collisions
  (air track )
• Happy and unhappy balls

• green scale to weigh rotational inertia rods, bicycle wheel, a ball on a string, Styrofoam center of mass toy and an overhead projector

• Rotational Inertia Rods
•  video  - Rolling Objects and Moments of Inertia

• Erected bicycle wheel on a stand

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia
•  video  - Moment of Inertia Wheel
•  video  - Vector Nature of Angular Momentum
• Hero's engine
•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force

• Big Clock projected on the front screen before 8:00am (till 8:50am) Side screen showing the whole auditorium 8:00am-8:50am

•  video  - Precession of Bicycle Wheel Under Gravity Force

• Spring with varying weights to show the period varies. / Simple pendula with different lengths to show that the period varies (I will adjust the length of the pendula by myself the day before the lecture.)

•  video  - Center of Mass of Virginia

• Slinky - to show standing waves / That thing with spiral wire with a putty attached, set on the overhead projector, and turn the knob, spiral rotates and it appears as waves traveling but the putty remains at the same location / Sound speed measuring device: the tube with a tuning fork at one end, and finding the nodes by pushing the piston

•  video  - Transverse Waves
•  video  - Longitudinal Waves
•  video  - Standing Waves
• Bell in a Vacuum
•  video  - Doppler Buzzer
•  video  - Tuning Fork Beats
•  video  - Air Driven Organ Pipe

• Floating and Sinking identical-looking balls suspended with a string in a bottle of water

•  video  - Pascal's Vases
• Hydraulic Press
•  video  - Crush the Soda Can
• Magdeburg Hemispheres
• Archimedes Principle III
  (Just Helium balloon and a jar (I don't need the trash bag thing) )
•  video  - Torricelli's Law
•  video  - Venturi Tube
  (removed first manometer and plug up hole with rubber stopper, stopper up one end of removed manometer to show uneven level )
•  video  - Air Flow Dynamics
  (sucking pinpong ball, sucking plexiglass plate, atomizer )

• Absolute Zero
  (LN2 - Ice Water - Room Temp Water - Boiling Water (No need for dry ice) )
•  video  - Thermal Expansion
  (bi-metal strip and ring-and-ball with burner )
• LN2 - Thermal Effects on Solids and Gases
•  video  - Heat Conduction
  (stainless steel tubing with torch )
• Boiling Water in a Paper Cup
  (one cup with water, another cup without )
•  video  - Boiling by Cooling
•  video  - Boiling by Reducing Pressure

•  video  - Steam Engine
  (Preferably the one without electric connection )