Physics Demonstration Index:
SECTION A - LISTING OF LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS
1a. Standard Meter
1b. Cube
1c. One Kg
2a. Vector Cube
2b. Cross product model
2c. Triangle of forces
2d. Sailboat tacking
2e. 2-D vector addition
3a. Constant velocity
3b. Level air track
3c. Inclined air track
3d. Average versus instantaneous velocity
3e. Instantaneous velocity
4a. Coin and feather
4b. Balls of copper
4c. Falling body
4d. A jet of water
4e. A toy monkey
4f. A ball is dropped
4g. Projectile from moving car
4h. y versus t
5a. A rotating bike wheel
5b. A centripetal force
5c. Rotating deformable objects
5d. Centripetal force
5e. Radian and degree
5f. Linear-angular
5g. Earth shape
6a. Cart on a level air track
6b. Cart accelerated
6c. Inclined air track
6d. Accelerating elevator
6e. Tension demonstration
6f. Static Friction
6g. Kinetic versus Static
6h. µ=tan(θ)
6i. Car on an incline
6j. Table cloth
6k. Cord breaking
7a. A conical pendulum---(1)
7b. A conical pendulum---(2)
7c. A conical pendulum---(3)
7d. Simple pendulum --- force on bob
7e. Principle of Equivalence
7f. Air table
7g. Air jet rotator
7h. Rolling races
7i. Rotating dumbbell
7j. T(α)
7k. Angular momentum stool
7l. Stool and rotating wheel
7m. Stool and weights
7n. Gyroscopes
7o. Precession
7p. Precession again
7q. Yo-yo
7r. Angular momentum conservation
7s. Wrap-around
8a. Torques on meter stick
8b. Unsymmetrical meter stick
8c. Ladder against wall
8d. Simulated bridge
8e. Center of mass
8f. Odd looking C.M.
8g. The leaning tower of Pisa
8h. C.M. of an irregular object
8i. Mechanical advantage
8j. Equilibrium types
8k. Wheel and arm
9a. Work
9b. Work on nail
9c. Pile driver
9d. Compare work done
9e. Pony brake
10a. Spring and mass
10b. Air track oscillations
10c. Rolling ball
10d. Bowling ball
10e. Simple pendulum
10f. Obstructed pendulum
10g. F vs. X
10h. Hooke's law
10i. Air track: Work and energy
11a. Equal masses - elastic
11b. Equal masses - inelastic
11c. Unequal masses
11d. Magnetic collision
11e. Explosion
11f. Explosion of unequal carts
11g. Air table
11h. Gun
12a. CM trajectory
12b. CM motion
12c. Two-cart oscillator
12d. "Uphill Cone"
13a. Equal masses
13b. 2:1 Mass ratio
13c. Ballistic pendulum
13d. Five in a row
14a. Vertical spring and mass
14b. Circular motion and SHM
14c. Simple pendulum
14d. Torsional oscillation
14e. 2D SHO
14f. Sand Lissajous
14g. CRTO Lissajous
14h. Inclined air track
14i. Level air-track SHO
14j. Physical pendulums
15a. Cavendish balance
15b. Inertial balance
15c. Inverse square law
16a. A Pascal Vase
16b. Hg column barometer
16c. Bernoulli Principle
16d. Pressure drop and flow
16e. Bernoulli Principle
16f. Bernoulli Principle
16g. The syphon
16h. Cartesian diver
16i. Pascal vases
16j. Magdeburg hemispheres
16k. V(h)
16l. A hydraulic jack
16m. Archimedes' principle
16n. A pitot tube
17a. Long spring
17b. Slinky
17c. Torsion waves
17d. The Columbia wave machine
17e. Superimposed waves
17f. Superposition
17g. CRTO waves
17h. Fourier Synthesis
17i. Standing wave
17j. Standing wave
17k. Visible string vibrations
17l. Sand-filled tube
17m. Doppler shift (1)
17n. Doppler shift (2)
17o. Doppler shift (3)
17p. Doppler shift (4)
17q. Doppler shift (5)
17r. Doppler shift (6)
18a. The Helmholtz resonator
18b. Resonance boxes
18c. Coupled pendula
18d. Air column resonance
18e. Air column resonance
18f. Organ pipes
18g. Wislbergorce's pendulum
18h. Mechanical resonance
18i. Gas flame resonator
18j. Sympathetic vibrations
18k. Drum vibrations
19a. Gamut's bells
19b. A guitar
19c. The Fourier analyzer
19d. A strong on a monochord
19e. A variable length organ pipe
19f. Glass discs
19g. Two 1,000 Hz tuning forks
19h. Two organ pipes
19i. The resonance boxes
19j. The trombone interferometer
19k. Vacuum bell
19l. Savarts toothed wheel
19m. Two sirens
19n. A xylophone
19o. A rather poor violin
19p. A flute
19q. Interference
19r. Speed of sound
19s. Lecture hall acoustics
19t. Ear tones
19u. Dispersion
19v. Free wave interference
19w. Sound films
20a. Thermal expansion of nichrome
20b. A gas thermometer
20c. Cooled balloons
20d. Glass thermometers
20e. Ball and ring
20f. Resistance of a heated iron wire
20g. Expansion of an iron bar
20h. Vibrating crystal model
20i. Bi-metallic strip
20j. Convection in air
20k. Thermal expansion of brass
20l. Latent heats for water
20m. Leslie's cube
20n. A thermopile radiometer
20o. A collapsible one gallon can
20p. Convection in water
20q. Lighting a match
20r. Iron wire resistance
20s. Liquid nitrogen fun
20t. Boiling liquid nitrogen
21a. Heat conduction (1)
21b. Heat conductivity(2)
21c. Head conductivity (3)
21d. Head conduction (4)
21e. Davy's safety lamp
21f. Specific heats
21g. The mechanical equivalent of heat
21h. Mechanical equivalent of heat
21i. Heat by wire bending
22a. A Rubber band as a heat engine
22b. Rubber band heat engines
22c. Sterling cycle engine
22d. A transparent Sterling Engine
22e. An internal combustion model
23a. Electrical charge definitions
23b. Charged balloons
23c. Coulomb's law
23d. Induced charges
23e. Small pieces of paper
23f. Two pith balls
23g. Volta's Hailstorm
23h. Volta's pendulum
23i. Electroscopes
23j. Electrophorous
23k. Whimhurst
23l. Induced forces
23m. Conservation of charge
23n. Ionic discharge
23o. Deflection of ions
23p. Ionic speaker
23q. Induced student charges
23r. Millikan's oil drop
23s. Forces on an electrophorous plate
23t. Forces on charged plates
24a. Electric field
24b. Gaussian surface
24c. Electron beam
24d. Faraday's ice pail
24e. Biot's hemispheres
24f. A charged cylinder
24g. The force on an electric dipole
25a. 2-D equipotential lines
25b. A small Van de Graaff generator
25c. Electric wind
25d. Lightning rod
25e. Electrostatic voltmeters
25f. Van dee Graaff potentials
25g. Corona discharge
25h. Electron beam tubes
25i. Fields and curvature
26a. Spacing dependence of capacitance
26b. Charge dependence of V and spacing
26c. Capacitor dielectric
26d. Parallel capacitors
26e. Series capacitors
26f. Energy stored in a capacitor
26g. Leyden jar
27a. Whimshurst or Van der Graaff generator
27b. Transient currents
27c. Ohmic and non-ohmic resistors
27d. I-V plotter
27e. Temperature variation in resistance
27f. R - 4rL/A
28a. Internal resistance
28b. Lightbulb brightness
28c. Single loop circuits
28d. Wheatstone Bridge
28e. Equivalent resistance
28f. Joule heating
28g. Hog dog cooker
28h. RC - Circuit
28i. Square wave RC circuit
28j. Multi-loop DC circuits
29a. Oersted demonstration
29b. Force on a moving charge
29c. Electron beam deflection
29d. Circular path of electrons
29e. Magnetic force on a wire
29f. Faraday's motor
29g. Barlow's wheel
29h. Torque on a current loop
29i. Thomson's e/m experiment
29j. Hall effect
29k. Ion drig
29l. Force on a wire
29m. Magnetic mirroring
29n. Electron motor
29o. Wooden loop
29p. Shaded pole
29q. Synchronous motor
30a. Magnetic lines of force
30b. Magnetic forces
30c. Roget's spiral
31a. Induced currents (1)
31b. Induced currents (2)
31c. Induced current (3)
31d. Induced current (4)
31e. Induced DC current
31f. The levitated ring
31g. Eddy current (1)
31h. Eddy current (2)
31i. Magnetic circuit
31j. Small magneto
31k. Transformers
31l. Induction coils
31m. Jacob's ladder
31n. Deformed loop
31o. Orientation of secondary coil
31p. Power line losses
31q. Motor as generator
31r. Back EMF
31s. Toroidal coil
31t. Reflected impedance
32a. Inductor back EMF (1)
32b. Inductor back EMF (2)
32c. L-R Circuit (1)
32d. L-R Circuit (2)
33a. Large domain
33b. Magnetized filings
33c. Broken magnet
33d. Curie temperature
33e. B-H curves
33f. Magnet fields
33g. Barkhausen effect
33h. Magnetic launcher
33i. Magnetic interactions
33j. Coil of wire
34a. LC Circuit Oscillations
34b. LCR Circuit
34c. Spring-mass oscillations
34d. LCR Resonance
34e. 60 Hz Resonance
34f. Circuit coupling
34g. Mechanical resonance
35a. Energy transmission
35b. Polarization of radio waves
35c. Polarization of visible light
35d. Three polarizers
35e. Microwave interference
35f. RF standing waves
35g. RF Antenna
35h. Birefringence
35i. Malus Law
35j. Optical activity
35k. Wave plate
35l. Inverse square law (1)
35m. Inverse square law (2)
35n. Zeeman effect
35o. Modulated laser
36a. Blackboard optics
36b. The optical disk
36c. Continuous spectrum
36d. Blackboard optics (2)
36e. Light pipe (1)
36f. Light pipe (2)
36g. Light pipe (3)
36h. Brewster's angle
36i. Glass ray tank
36j. Incidence and refraction
36k. Ray tracing
36l. Ripple tank (1)
36m. Microwave reflection
36n. Microwave refraction
36o. Phantom light bulb
36p. Radiant energy transfer
36q. Focus of sound waves
36r. Subjective colour
36s. Color mixing
36t. Water or ice lens
36u. Phase change at boundaries
37a. Laser Young's Experiment
37b. Arc light Young's experiment
37c. Microwave Young's experiment
37d. Sound Young's experiment
37e. Water wave Young's expt.
37f. Ultrasosnic Young's expt.
37g. Fresnel biprism
37h. Lloyd's mirror
37i. Microwave Lloyd's mirror
37j. Fresnel's mirrors
37k. Soap film linterference
37l. Newtons rings
37m. Pohl's fringes
37n. RF interference
37o. Michelson interferometer
37p. Microwave Michelson interferometer
37q. Ruler interference
37r. Double slit simulation
38a. Single slit diffraction-laser
38b. Single slit diffraction-arc
38c. Single slit diffraction-microwaves
38d. Ripple tank
38e. White light diffraction
38f. Poisson's spot-white light
38g. Poisson's spot-microwaves
38h. Mills Cross
38i. Diffraction gratings
38j. Sound diffraction grating
38k. Multiple slits
38l. Zone plates
38m. Resolving power
39a. Photoelectric effect
39b. h/e experiment
39c. Spectra
39d. More spectra
39e. Film vibration modes
39f. Photo-voltaic cells
39g. Franck-Hertz experiment
39h. Holograms
39i. Thermal radiation
39j. Thermal emissivities
39k. Continuous spectrum
39l. Inelastic electron collisisons
40a. Electron diffraction
40b. Probability demo
40c. Crystal diffraction of microwaves
40d. Electron beam tubes
40e. Gas discharge tube
40f. Frustrated total reflection