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PHYS 102: Intro to Physics Concepts - II

•  video  - Marble and Feather
  (ALSO: meter stick, a few 1-kg masses to pass around, cardboard cubic meter )
• Measurement of Free Fall Acceleration
• Falling Drops of Milk
• Reaction Cars
  (All I need is the air track and 3 different-mass cars that I can pull with the same light spring, to show different accelerations )
• The Mechanical Universe
  (side 1, chapter 15, which shows dropping of hammer and feather on moon )

• test

• AirPro Hockey pucks
  (ALSO: piece of cardboard and big nickel--want to walk and turn suddenly and show nickel is "thrown" off board )
• Propeller Cart on Track
  (with Pasco track )
• Hit the Nail on the Head
  (ALSO: medicine ball and rolling black cart, big LED timer and tennis ball and long tape measure (want to compute height of catwalk and then check directly) )
• The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations
  (there's one entitled "helicopter rotor" or "propeller" on the disc with stuff on Newton's third law )

•  video  - Ballistics Cart
•  video  - The Monkey and the Hunter
• Potential Energy
•  video  - Conservative System
  (and digital camera so I can photograph the student volunteer )
• Energy Conversion and Conservation
  (I just need the solar car with a lamp, and electrolysis of water )

• Simple Machines
  (Just need a simple lever--maybe a nice long one with a 2x4 from under the stairs. ALSO: Differential pulley (hangs in the corner), Bloomfield's chair, electrolysis of water, car jack and big LED timer (if it's OK, I'd like to have a person sit on it and another raise it) )

• VHS tape "The Ultimate Speed."

• measure speed of light with diode laser set-up

  magnet and 3 side-by-side coils connected to ammeter--want to show current only depends on relative velocity

  skateboard and a tennis ball

  extra laser to reveal with chalk dust

• Bell in a Vacuum
• Measurement of the Speed of Light
• Frames of Reference

• The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: Pioneers of Visual Ideas
• Einstein Revealed

• globe of Earth, VHS tape "Einstein Express"

• The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: Pioneers of Visual Ideas

• VHS tape "Einstein Express", air track with one medium-sized car and light spring to pull it with, large black rolling cart

• curved space demo

• The Mechanical Universe
  (part 25 )
• Einstein Revealed

•  video  - Magnetic Deflection of an Electron Beam
  (prefer the one in which beam skims along the surface of the coated plate )
•  video  - Photoelectric Effect in Zinc
•  video  - Emission Spectra
  (with diffraction gratings to pass around. I will be very diligent about collecting them. )
• The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: Pioneers of Visual Ideas

• laser pointer to pass around

  He-Ne laser that's open so one can see how it works

  Laser Light Show--do you have music?

•  video  - Photoelectric Effect in Zinc
• Laser Light

• VHS tape "Matter Waves"

• Arago's (Poisson's) Spot
  (also a flashlight and a penny so I can show a regular shadow on the Elmo )
•  video  - Electron Diffraction

• water waves to show diffraction through variable slit width

  microscope to show spacing of lines on U.S. currency

•  video  - Standing Waves

• I would really like to show some holograms, if that's convenient. Also, want to show details of U.S. currency, but if I remember, microscope gives too much magnification, so probably try the loupe with the Elmo. Also, UV light from photoelectric effect so I can show fluorescence of strips in U.S. currency.

• Geiger counter and radioactive samples

  bowl of pennies (I can get some more if we don't have enough)

• 2 magnets connected by a spring

  VHS tape "Energy from the Nucleus"

• Diffusion Cloud Chamber

• open He-Ne laser

  "Spin Doctors" demo--Walkman, transmitting and receiving coils, loudspeaker

•  video  - Conservative System
•  video  - Magnetic Deflection of an Electron Beam
  (prefer version with electron beam skimming along coated surface )
•  video  - Emission Spectra
  (only need around 5 gratings--this is for "office hours" in the classroom )

• a couple of bar magnets and a compass--want to show that magnet needle aligns with external field (MRI is the topic)

  tennis ball on a spring

• Meissner Effect (diamagnetic levitation)
•  video  - Series LCR Circuit, Resonance
  (the simplest LC circuit you have is fine, although the one on the large board is nice since it's so visual. What I really want to show is resonance. )

• The Astronomers
  ("Stardust" )
• Birth of the Stars

• chain reaction software

  2 magnets connected by spring

•  video  - Mouse Trap Atomic Bomb