List of Demonstrations, Physics 11

by K. Spartalian and D. Hammond







Motion in One and Two Dimensions

1.C2-11:   Racing balls on rails.

2.C2-22:   Monkey gun.
3.C2-43*: Vector addition of velocities with toy car on cardboard.
4.              Magnetic Vectors
Newton's Laws and Free-Body Diagrams for Linear Motion
1.TA-C1:  Lever air track with one cart (Newton's 1st Law).
2.C3-04:   Red brick-Lead brick
3.C5-31:    Air Track, Sailing Upwind New
4.    Accelerometers.
    (a)C4-63*:   Conventional plumb-bob type.
    (b)C4-15:     Inverted
    (c)C4-12:     Liquid
5.TA-C2:   Inclined plane with balanced cart.
6.C3-05:    Embroidery hoop, pen in bottle.
                  Bill and Bottles
7.B3-15:    Fool's Tackle New
8.TA-C3:  Block of wood with pulley resting on horizontal plane


9.                Falling Bowling Ball/Soccer Ball

10.              Feather and Farthing
Newton's Laws for Circular Motion
1.D1-41:      Swinging basket with cup.
2.D1-39:    Quarter with hanger.
3.TA-D1:   Simple pendulum.
Energy and Momentum
1.C8-35*:   Brachistochrone. (Catenary)
2.D1-53:      Loop de loop.
3.C7-01:      Two carts on level air track (Momentum conservation).
4.C7-11:     Newton's balls.
5.C4-55*:   Sling-shot effect with springs and two masses
6.C7-16:     Happy and sad balls. (Large and Small)
7.SPECIAL:  The (Dreaded) Bed o' Nails.


8.             Cycloidal Brachistochrone

9.             Tautochronous Pendula   Details
10.             Wilburforce Pendulum
11.             Coupled Pendula
 
Torques, Equilibrium, Rotations, Rolling Motion and Angular Momentum
 
1.B2-45*:     Balanced block on wedge.
2.D1-83:      Yo-yo Ma.
3.D1-81:      Yo-yo Ma Jr.
4.B2-46*    Balanced nails
5.D2-11:    Falling plank with billiard ball in cup.
6.TA-D1    Meter stick atop rolling cylinder.
7.D2-43:      Spinning stool and dumb-bells.
8.D3-05:      Spinning stool and bicycle wheel
9.D4-04:      Gyroscope effects with spinning bicycle wheel hanging from strings.
10.D2-04:  Moment of inertia batons.
11.             Devil's Hook
12.             Happy and Sad Cans
13.             Centripedal Force Demo
14.               Double Bicycle Wheels
15.               Rolling Hoops With Moveable Weights

Harmonic Motion

1.TA-G1:  Simple pendulum.
2.TA-G2:  Vertical spring-mass system.

 

Fluids and Buoyancy

1F2-02:   Cartesian diver.

2.F2-31:  Magic Peas.
3.F2-42*: Neutral buoyancy ball.
4.               Balloons on scale
    (a)F2-43*    Empty vs. inflated balloon
    (b)F2-13:   Empty vs. CO2-filled balloon
5.F2-44*:  Scale with two balanced cups filled with water.


6.               Density Paradox (Temperature sensitive)
7.               Floating Rock
8.             Galileo's Thermometer

9.              Carbon Dioxide, Soap Bubbles and Candles
10.            Catsup Packet Cartesian Diver
12.             Steel Sphere Density Demonstration
 
Waves
1.G3-01:   Shrive wave machine.
2.G3-53:   Standing waves on string with strobe light.
3.H3-05:     Standing waves in cylindrical boom box.
4.H3-76*: Santa's Spinner Details


5.              Longitudinal Wave Machine
6.              Sine Wave Model
7.              Standing Waves on a Phone Wire (movie)

8.              Beaker Kreaker
 
Thermal Physics
1.I1-12:    Thermal Expansion:  Ball with ring.
2.I2-04:      Wien's Law of thermal radiation New
3.I3-16:    55 Gallon Crush
4.I2-44:   Convection: Candle in Cylinder New
5.I1-75*: Thermal Expansion:  Plate and taper.
6I6-33:      Kinetic theory simulation (bouncing spheres projected on screen).
7.I3-53*: Piston expansion-compression.
8.I3-33:     Balloon on LN2.
9.I3-42:     Boyled marshmallows New
10.TA-I1: Fun with LN2.  Frozen veggies, tennis balls, rubber band, ping-pong ball with hole,
                   balloon in test tube, piece of hose smashed with hammer, latex glove trick.
11.              Lightbulb in LN2
12.             Ping Pong Ball Cannon
 
 

*          Asterisks indicate UVM demos that do not exist in UMD list.

TA indicates "Teaching aids", props to push point across.