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PHYS 1060-001: How Things Work

• 1. Two baseballs 2. One bowling ball 3. Bouncy ball 4. Tennis ball 5. Basketball, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Big square weight for my wagon 2. two spring scales (different force ranges) 3. two green grocery store scales 4. My toy wagon 5. My Adjustable ramp, ... Thanks, - Lou, ... I will bring: 1. Water balloons 2. Rotating Seesaw board

• 1. Red bowling ball 2. My rotating wood beam 3. An aluminum seesaw, with pivot and 4 1-kg weights 4. 5-kg square weight 5. The lighted toss toy that shows the center of mass as the toy rotates around the center of mass 6. A 1-meter stick and a 2-meter stick (I haven't seen the 1-meter stick lately) 7. The moment-of-inertia bars 8. Mini-me 9. A rubber mallet, ... Thanks, - Lou

• 1. My rotating wood beam 2. An aluminum seesaw, with pivot and 4 1-kg weights 3. 5-kg square weight 4. The lighted toss toy that shows the center of mass as the toy rotates around the center of mass 5. A 1-meter stick and a 2-meter stick (I haven't seen the 1-meter stick lately) 6. The moment-of-inertia bars 7. Mini-me 8. A rubber mallet, ... Thanks, - Lou

• 1. My little air hockey table 2. Swivel Chair 3. Dumbells 4. Bicycle Wheel and Grinder 5. Two hanging pith balls (for static electricity) 6. Teflon rod and silk to wipe it (or whatever we normally use to wipe it) 7. Acrylic rod and Teflon to wipe it (or whatever...) 8. Electroscope (mechanical one, with the rotating vane) 9. Beaker (about 300 to 600 ml) (I'll put tape on the surface, remove it, and have charged tape) 10. Van de Graaff 11. Plastic stool 12. Pom pom 13. Cup of Styrofoam peanuts (to launch from van de Graaff), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two hanging pith balls (for static electricity) 2. Teflon rod and silk to wipe it (or whatever we normally use to wipe it) 3. Acrylic rod and Teflon to wipe it (or whatever...) 4. Electroscope (mechanical one, with the rotating vane) 5. Beaker (about 300 to 600 ml) (I'll put tape on the surface, remove it, and have charged tape) 6. Van de Graaff 7. Plastic stool 8. Faraday's Ice Box and transfer ball 9. Sharp point (to discharge Van de Graaff) 10. Insulator and conductor plugins for Electroscope, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Teflon rod and silk to wipe it (or whatever we normally use to wipe it) 2. Acrylic rod and Teflon to wipe it (or whatever...) 3. Electroscope (mechanical one, with the rotating vane) 4. Van de Graaff 5. Plastic stool 6. Faraday's Ice Box and transfer ball 7. Sharp point (to discharge Van de Graaff) 8. Insulator and conductor plugins for Electroscope 9. My + and - charge disks (I think I left them in 203 on Monday), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Teflon rod and silk to wipe it (or whatever we normally use to wipe it) 2. Acrylic rod and Teflon to wipe it (or whatever...) 3. Electroscope (mechanical one, with the rotating vane) 4. Van de Graaff 5. Sharp point (to discharge Van de Graaff) 6. Car battery, switch, lightbulb, and wires (circuits!) 7. Circuit with 3 "D" batteries, wires, and a 4.5V lightbulb (so I can reverse one of the batteries, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Teflon rod and silk to wipe it (or whatever we normally use to wipe it) 2. Acrylic rod and Teflon to wipe it (or whatever...) 3. Electroscope (mechanical one, with the rotating vane) 4. Van de Graaff 5. Sharp point (to discharge Van de Graaff) 6. Car battery, switch, lightbulb, and wires (circuits!) 7. Circuit with 3 "D" batteries, wires, and a 4.5V lightbulb (so I can reverse one of the batteries, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Car battery, switch, lightbulb, and wires (circuits!) 2. Circuit with 3 "D" batteries, wires, and a 4.5V lightbulb (so I can reverse one of the batteries) 3. Nichrome wire ("short circuit") 4. Two red/white magnets on swivels 5. One red/white magnet by itself 6. One magnet to "break" (pre-broken along its length) 7. Some rare-earth magnets to jump at each other Iron, Aluminum, Brass (some metals are ferromagnetic, others are not), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two red/white magnets on swivels 2. One red/white magnet by itself 3. One magnet to "break" (pre-broken along its length) 4. Some rare-earth magnets to jump at each other 5. Iron, Aluminum, Brass (some metals are ferromagnetic, others are not) 6. Electromagnet to hang from 7. Giant electromagnet 8. Some powdered iron (to view magnetic flux lines) 9. Two identical advertising magnets (the strips that can stick to refrigerators and have a striped pattern of poles), ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. Two red/white magnets on swivels 2. One red/white magnet by itself 3. Some rare-earth magnets to jump at each other 4. Iron, Aluminum, Brass (some metals are ferromagnetic, others are not) 5. Electromagnet to hang from 6. Giant electromagnet 7. Some powdered iron (to view magnetic flux lines) 8. Two identical advertising magnets (the strips that can stick to refrigerators and have a striped pattern of poles). 9. The array of magnetic arrows (to show domain formation, etc.) 10. The plastic lattice of little magnets (your new demo) 11. The LED on a wire attached to an AC/unfiltered-DC/filtered-DC power source (to show the alternation) 12. The electromagnet and jumping rings 13. Liquid nitrogen (for even better jumping, just for fun) 14. The coil and lamp for the jumping-ring electromagnet, ... Thanks! - Lou

• 1. The LED on a wire attached to an AC/unfiltered-DC/filtered-DC power source (to show the alternation) 2. The electromagnet and jumping rings 3. Liquid nitrogen (for even better jumping, just for fun) 4. The coil and lamp for the jumping-ring electromagnet 5. Coil with LEDs and a strong magnet (to show induction) 6. Slow-falling magnet in and on big copper disks 7. Step up and step down transformer -- weld nails and jacob's ladder 8. Telsa coil -- your new one, ... Thanks! - Lou

• Electric power distribution demo setups: 1. 12V Car Battery 2. 12VAC Power Transformer 3. 12V Lightbulb Near power source 4. 12V lightbulb Far from power source 5. 2 thin wires to go from near to far 6. 2 thick wires to go from near to far 7. 12V to 120V (or higher) step-up transformer 8. 120V to 12V step-down transformer 9. Big electromagnet (as inductor, among other things), ... Thanks! - Lou

• Demos for today (Radio): 1. The black transmitter demo with the vertical lightbulb receiver antenna 2. Any other radio transmitter demonstrations you have 3. Any tank circuit demonstration you have, ... Thanks! - Lou