Demonstrations - Teaching Physical Science in the Laboratory:

Primary demo (underlined)

Periodic Motion -

Coupled pendulums

Wave machine

Swinging neon lamp on AC cord

Acceleration, Force and Pressure -

Feather, farthing and cow magnet

Dry ice puck

Bed o' Nails

“Magic” peas

Momentum -

Rotating stool, bicycle wheel and dumbbells

Dry ice puck

Air track collisions

Work, Energy and Power -

Genecom raising weights and cooling thermoelectric device

Racing balls

Loop-the-loop

Heat, Temperature and Thermodynamics -

Stirling engines.

Newton's Law of Cooling

Gases and Liquids -

Fire syringe and refrigerator model

Boyle's law apparatus

Balloon, glass and cork

Ball and leaf blower.

Electricity -

Wimhurst generator, capacitors, lightning rods, and electrostatic scrubber

Bulbs in series and parallel

Charging metalized balloons

Capacitor bank discharging through light bulb

Particles in Electromagnetic fields -

E/m tube

Crooke's tubes

Cloud chamber (cm scale)

Electromagnetic Induction -

Jumping ring

Demonstration Motor/Generator

Magnetic brake

Tesla coil

Sounds and Music -

Acoustic standing waves

Standing waves on a wire

Acoustic motor

Tuning forks

Doppler effect.

Light and Optics -

Sunset in a fish tank

Water prism

Projected Mercury spectrum with UV lines

"How many fish"

Glass rod in immersion oil

Optical fibers.

Transfering and Storing Information -

Sound on a beam of light

Victrola