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PHYS 1050-001: How Things Work

• 1. Razor scooter and stand 2. Tablecloth trick 3. Hovercraft 4. Semi-full roll of Paper Towels (to snap one off of) 5. Hammer, nails, and board 6. Two baseballs 7. One bowling ball

• 1. Razor scooter & stand 2. Hovercraft 3. Full and lean rolls of Toilet Paper (I'll bring a roll of towel paper) 4. Hammer, Nails, and Boards 5. Two baseballs 6. One Bowling Ball 7. Some full soda cans and some empty soda cans, ... Along with: 8. My little red wagon 9. My grain mill and lid 10. My soccer air puck 11. Anything else I left with you all on Wednesday, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two baseballs 2. Bowling ball (on bench) 3. Tennis ball 4. Golf ball 5. Bouncy balls 6. Happy/Unhappy balls

• 1. Two baseballs 2. 5-kg block weight 3. 2 different Newton Spring Scales 4. 2 green grocery spring scales 5. 2 Pasco carts 6. 1 Bowling ball (the red one) 7. 1 Basketball 8. Several different wooden block (to prop-up ramp), ... I will bring: 1. My little wagon 2. My wooden adjustable ramp (I nabbed it yesterday) 3. Water balloons, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two baseballs 2. 5-kg block weight 3. 2 different Newton Spring Scales 4. 2 green grocery spring scales 5. 1 Bowling ball (the red one) 6. 1 Basketball 7. Several different wooden block (to prop-up ramp), ... Also bring back out: 1. My little wagon 2. My wooden adjustable ramp 3. And I still have Water balloons, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Several different wooden block (to prop-up ramp) 2. 5-kg block weight 3. Mini-mi & pivot 4. Rubber Mallet 5. Aluminum bar and V-shaped pivot 6. 4 1-kg weights 7. Basketball 8. A baton or bowling pin to toss through the air spinning 9. The two moment-of-inertia rods 10. Short aluminum lever with short V-shaped pivot (for water balloon with Mallet), ... Also bring back out: 1. My little wagon 2. My wooden adjustable ramp, ... I will bring up: 3. My rotating beam on pivot 4. Water balloons, ... - Lou

• 1. Mini-mi & pivot 2. Rubber Mallet 3. Aluminum bar and V-shaped pivot 4. 4 1-kg weights 5. Basketball 6. A baton or bowling pin to toss through the air spinning 7. The two moment-of-inertia rods 8. Short aluminum lever with short V-shaped pivot (for water balloon with Mallet), ... Also bring back out: 9. My rotating beam on pivot, ... I will bring: 1. Water balloons, ... - Lou

• 1. Aluminum bar and V-shaped pivot 2. 4 1-kg weights 3. Basketball 4. Short aluminum lever with short V-shaped pivot (for water balloon with Mallet) 5. 5-kg weight (block-shaped) 6. Newton spring scales for pulling my wagons 7. 3 rods (as rollers for the wheel-less wagon) 8. Bicycle wheel (to show the touch and release of rolling), ... Also bring back out: 1. My rotating beam on pivot, ... I will bring: 1. Water balloons 2. Wagons (with and without wheels), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. 5-kg weight (block-shaped) 2. Disk-shaped spring scales for pulling my wagons 3. 3 rods (as rollers for the wheel-less wagon) 4. Bicycle wheel (to show the touch and release of rolling) 5. Air track and bouncy carts: two identical and one much larger 6. Pasco cart 7. Grinder for bicycle wheel and bicycle wheel 8. Swivel chair 9. Dumbbells 10. Bowling ball pendulum, ... I will bring: 1. Wagons (with and without wheels), ... Thanks! - Lou

• no class

• 1. Grinder for bicycle wheel and old bicycle wheel 2. Swivel chair 3. Dumbbells 4. Bowling ball pendulum 5. One green spring scale 6. Hooke's law demo 7. Mass bouncing on a spring 8. Bathroom scale and camera, ... I will bring: 1. One green spring scale (I borrowed it yesterday), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. One green spring scale 2. Hooke's law demo 3. Mass bouncing on a spring 4. Bathroom scale and camera 5. Basketball 6. Baseball 7. Beanbag 8. Happy and Unhappy Balls 9. A trampoline for balls 10. A bed of sand for balls, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Basketball 2. Baseball 3. Beanbag 4. Tennis Ball 5. Happy and Unhappy Balls 6. A trampoline for balls 7. A bed of sand for balls 8. Bring back my pail full of ball bearings 9. Trampoline for people 10. Hanging baseball bat 11. Hardball mallet (league baseball on handle) 12. 12" x 12" board (or similar) -- a moving surface on which to bounce a ball), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Wineglass on Pizza Platter Demo 2. Ball on track loop-the-loop demo 3. Pink Rubber Ball on String, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Midterm Exam I

• 1. Stability track (red plastic with metal ball) 2. Stability tower 3. Bicycle (if you can't locate one, I'll go home and get mine) 4. Bicycle wheel (old big one) and grinder to spin it up 5. Hanging clip for Bicycle wheel to precess, ... I will bring: 1. Broom (to balance), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Some large uninflated balloons 2. Magdeburg hemispheres and pump 3. Marshmallow man (if you've got relatively free marshmallows!) 4. Some balloons that will fit in the bell jar and burst under vacuum 5. A clean plastic bottle (I'll suck the air out) 6. Cartesian diver 7. Archimedes demo 8. Hot air balloon 9. LN2 10. Visible dewar, ... And I'll bring some long, thin balloons, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Drinking straws and clean water (drinkable) 2. A visible water pump 3. Hydraulic press and something fun to crush with it 4. Pascal's vases 5. Short water tank, hose, and nozzle. 6. Tall (catwalk) water tank, hose, and nozzle. 7. Siphon demonstration 8. A water-cooler demonstration (maybe an inverted flask of water in a big glass dish of water) 9. Giant straw (catwalk), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. A visible water pump 2. Short water tank, hose, and nozzle. 3. Tall (catwalk) water tank, hose, and nozzle. 4. Siphon demonstration 5. Vacuum cannon 6. Vortex cannon and smoke generator 7. Air nozzle and paint-sprayer demo (with water in the jar) 8. Two plates that stick together when air flows between them, ... Thanks! - Lou

• no class - inaugeration

• 1. Air nozzle and paint-sprayer demo (with water in the jar) 2. Two plates that stick together when air flows between them 3. Water jug with capillary tubes (Poiseuille's law) 4. Ping Pong ball in funnel airflow demo 5. Rheological fluid and stirring rods/sticks 6. Water hammer demo 7. Big Rubber mallet, ... I'll bring root beer bottles to break, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Rheological fluid and stirring rods/sticks 2. Water hammer demo 3. Big Rubber mallet 4. My root beer bottles 5. Curve-ball thrower 6. Beach ball, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Curve-ball thrower 2. Beach ball 3. Big styrofoam airplane, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two baseballs 2. LN2 (if there is any) 3. A handball to freeze (with tongs) 4. Thermal conductivity demo (copper, aluminum, stainless) 5. Thin walled stainless tube (to heat red hot) 6. Water convection demo (projector) 7. Thermal radiation cube and bolometer, ... That should keep me busy all hour! Thanks! - Lou

• 1. A handball to freeze (with tongs) 2. Thermal conductivity demo (copper, aluminum, stainless) 3. Thin walled stainless tube (to heat red hot) 4. Water convection demo (projector) 5. Thermal radiation cube and bolometer 6. Reflective parabolas and match-lighting setup, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Boil water in vacuum demo 2. Torch, glass or ceramic fiber insulation, something to heat (a penny?) 3. LN2, visible dewar, and a mirrored dewar 4. Styrofoam cup (as insulation) 5. Do we have any aerogel (super-light silica that looks like frozen smoke)? ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. The colored beads in the glass tray (purple and white?) 2. My cardboard boxes with the entropy and energy dials 3. The glass jug and thermocouple and bicycle pump 4. A plastic bottle with a cap on it (an empty 1 liter water bottle, for example) 5. The dehumidifier demo (evaporator and condensor visible, along with the compressor) 6. A hand generator and peltier cooler, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. My cardboard boxes with the entropy and energy dials 2. The dehumidifier demo (evaporator and condenser visible, along with the compressor) 3. The Peltier cooler, ... Thanks! - Lou

• I may have zero students, but I'll go ahead anyway ... 1. The little steam engine 2. The candle carousel (if it exists and works) 3. Do we have a lava lamp, by any chance? 4. Dipping Duck 5. Exploding milk jug (methanol and spark) 6. Fire plunger demo, ... Thanks! - Lou

• I'll work on Clocks today, so I'd like: 1. Bowling ball pendulum 2. Set of smaller pendulums 3. Mass on Spring pendulums (maybe two springs and three different masses) 4. Tuning Forks 5. Torsional Pendulum 6. Support for my Pendulum Clock 7. Singing rod and rosin 8. Bouncy ball (as an anharmonic oscillator), ... I'll bring up: 1. My Carriage Clock 2. My Pendulum Clock 3. Quartz Tuning Forks (I doubt I'll get this far today), ... Thanks! - Lou

• I'll work on musical instruments today, so I'd like: 1. Ordinary tuning forks 2. Two tuning forks with boxes 3. Carpet tubes, including metal tube with mesh in it, and burners 4. Swinging tubes 5. Coke bottles (different sizes) 6. Helium tank 7. Drinking straws (2 or 3) 8. Chladni plates and tone generator and camera 9. Wave toys: torsional waves and magnetic longitudinal waves 10. Sloshing tank of water (aquarium, water, on a pivot rod), ... I'll bring up: 1. Recorders 2. Violin 3. Music boxes (including one without soundboard surface), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Chladni plates and tone generator and camera 2. Wave toys: torsional waves and magnetic longitudinal waves 3. Sloshing tank of water (aquarium, water, on 3 rods) 4. A long spring attached to the lab bench at one end (for waves), ... Thanks! - Lou