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1045 results
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Falling Slinky's bottom stationary until top reaches it
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Mass on scale is accelerated
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Inclined airtrack: Cart and ball accelerate in unison.
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A chain dropped onto a force plate.
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Film: "Zero G", sound, 14 min.
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Film: "Conservation laws in zero G", sound, 14 min.
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Film loop: "Inertial forces: Centripetal acceleration", 3:15 min.
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Java Applet: The Ramp
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Java Applet "Moving ladybug shows vectors of motion"
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Java Applet "Ladybug on Carousel shows vectors of motion"
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Java Applet "Moving dot shows vectors of velocity and acceleration"
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Java Applet "The Moving Man"
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Java Applet "Moving car with graphed position to show linear sinusoidal motion"
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Film Loop: "Worlds largest vacuumn chamber does coin and feather, 4:41 min"
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Swinging mass M lifts mass 2M
1C20.10
"Coin and Feather" fall in an evacuated rotatable tube.
1C20.30
Inclined airtrack with gliders and timing gates.
1C20.31
Acceleration of a steel ball down an inclined plane with metronome.
1C30.10
Timed free fall: Ball drops 2 meters through electronic timing gate.
1D50.10
A ball swung on a string held by a sleeve.
1D50.25
Conical pendulum: Similar to A+0+35 with standard weights.
1D50.40
Swing water in a bucket.
1D50.60
Banked turns: slot car around an oval track
1D50.70
Rotating loop of chain rolls across bench.
1D52.10
Flattening of the earth: Rotating brass hoops.
1D52.35
Mercury and colored water in a rotating glass vessel.
1D52.40
Candles rotating about an axis.
1G10.10
A falling weight accelerates a car horizontally.
1G10.40
Atwood machine: Unbalanced weights on a pulley accelerate slowly.
1G20.60
Film loop: "Inertial forces:Translational acceleration", 2:05 min.
1G20.76
Cork float accelerometer: Cork and water in sealed flask.
1M40.20
Loop the loop: Sphere, hoop, disk rolled down a looped track.
1Q40.23
Mechanical governor device.
1Q60.50
Chain lariat with hand drill or electric rotator.
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Object rolls uphill, center of mass rolls downhill
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Potential energy of spring imparted to ball on ramp
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Film loop: "Conservation of energy: Pole vault", 3:55 min.
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Java applet: Conservation of energy skate park, movable tracks
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Java Applet: Conservation of energy skate park, various graphical representations
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Java Applet: Racing balls along different tracks
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Java Applet: "Mass-spring oscillator with optional energy graphs"
1D15.20
Equal path lengths ball race.
1D15.55
Brachistochrone: Three balls falling along different trajectories.
1M40.10
Bowling ball pendulum swings back to nose.
1M40.95
The Trebuchet
3A10.10
Ball on string mounts on blackboard and pivots on lower rod.
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"Sweet Spot": Meterstick pivot point changes with point struck.
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Projectile launched over rotating reference frame
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Film: "Frames of reference", sound, 28 min.
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Film loop: "Galilean relativity I", ball dropped from mast of ship,2:55min.
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Film loop:"Galilean relativity II", object dropped from aircraft, 3:40 min.
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Film loop: "Galilean relativity III", projectile fired vertically, 3:00 min.
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Film loop: "A matter of relative motion", 3:40 min.
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Film: "Slinky Drop at Turkey Creek" 3:14 min
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Film: "A million to one", flea and dry ice puck, sound, 5 min.
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Plank oscillates on oppositely rotating bicycle wheels.
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Java Applet "Forces and Motion on Horizontal Plane"
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Java Applet "Forces and Motion on Inclined Ramp"
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Java Applet "Molecular model of Friction"
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Java Applet "Inclined plane with adjustable friction and vectors shown"
1K20.15
Weighted wood block dragged horizontally by force sensor.
1K20.35
Blocks, with various surfaces slide on an inclined plane.
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Movable masses attached to rigid rod and force sensors
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Block pulled horizontally by a spring.
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Equivalence of tension of spring attached to pole with mass vs mass at both ends.
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Applet: Forces and Motion: Basics - Force, Motion, Friction
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Applet: Forces in 1 Dimension
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Applet: Forces Exerted on Bridges
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Fan and sailboat on wheels
1J30.51
Force table: Forces on a car on an adjustable inclined plane.
1J30.53
Force table: Forces on a car on a horizontal table.
1J40.20
A meterstick lever on a free-standing fulcrum with weights.
1J40.25
Precision lever: Balance beam on stand plus weight set.
1R10.10
Standard pan balance with assorted weights.
1R10.10
Weight on a vertical spring with markers on stand.
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Java Applet Orbiting Bodies
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Film: "The law of gravitation "(Feynman), sound, 56 min.
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Applet: Gravity and Orbits
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Applet: Gravity Force Lab
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Applet: My Solar System
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Drawing ellipse on chalkboard
1L10.10
Film loop: "The Cavendish experiment", 4:25 min.
1L10.30
The Cavendish experiment: Model and actual apparatus to show.
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Inertia demonstration using hammer and anvil
1F20.10
Breaking thread above and below weight.
1F20.25
Bed of nails
1F20.30
Tablecloth yanked out from under dishes.
1F20.34
Card snapped from under a weight by a leaf spring.
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Off center cross beam changes moment of inertia
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Moment of inertia: Hoop or disk rotated by falling weight.
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Loop the loop: Sphere, hoop, disk rolled down a looped track.
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Rotational Inertia Wands
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Applet: Downhill Racing
1Q10.40
Two disks, one weighted in center and other on rim, roll down ramp.
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Bike with one foot long trail
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Hoop thrown forward rolls backwards
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Gyroscopes; various.
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Film: "Conservation laws in zero G", sound, 14 min..
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Rotating Platform for Outreach
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Spinning Bicycle Wheel Stays Upright.
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Falling coffee cup is arrested by friction
1M40.50
Maxwell's wheel: Flywheel with axle, supported on strings or stand.
1Q30.25
Rotational inertia device: Sliding weights on rotating rod.
1Q40.10
Rotating chair with dumbbells or weighted bicycle wheel.
1Q40.11
Minor's apparatus: Movable discs rotated by falling weight.
1Q50.40
Large gyroscope in a suitcase.
1Q50.54
Sire's Polytrope.
1Q50.90
Maxwell's top, has adjustable center of gravity.
1Q60.15
Large conical aluminum top.
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Applet: Collision Lab
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Film loop: "Colliding freight cars", 2:45 min.
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Film loop: "Dynamics of a billiard ball", 4:00 min.
1H10.10
Two people in rolling chairs pushing and pulling
1M40.40
.22 rifle fires vertically, bullet lifts small wood cylinder.
1M40.40
Ballistic pendulum: Suspended .22 rifle fires into suspended block.
1M40.41
Inelastic collisions: Another ballistic pendulum.
1N20.25
Airtrack: Long track with two gliders coupled by a spring hoop.
1N20.30
Balls of equal and unequal mass on strings, separated by a leaf spring.
1N30.10
Elastic collisions: Five hanging balls and two unequal hanging balls.
1N30.15
Elastic collisions: Seven steel balls roll on a wooden track.
1N30.30
Three meter airtrack with gliders that rebound elastically, or stick.
1N40.10
Executive size pool table
1N40.21
Plastic pucks on air table.
1Q40.40
Train on circular track moves one way and track moves the other.
4D30.20
Mechanical model of a gas: Vibrating balls strike piston on OHP.
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Electric winch tows car at constant speed, then constant acceleration.
1C10.21
Electric winch tows car at constant speed.
1C10.27
Airtrack: Glider passes "start" and "stop" gates on digital timer.
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Wall chart of metric system.
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3"x 4" slides of standards and units and cassette tape of WWV.
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Film: "Powers of ten", sound, 10 min.
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Solids to show; cone, pyramid, icosahedron, etc.
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Reaction jet: "L" tube rotates as water flows through it.
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Elastic band acts as slingshot
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Rocket using a CO2 Fire Extinguisher: Newton's 3rd Law.
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Water expelled through hose shows dependence on angle and cross sectional area
1D60.10
Ballistics car: Ball ejected from rolling car drops back in.
1D60.20
Dropped and shot balls hit bench simultaneously.
1D60.30
The Hunter
1D60.65
Water projector: Adjustable angle water jet in front of grid.
1N22.20
Rocket is filled with water and compressed air and launched vertically.
1N22.30
Carbon dioxide propelled rocket flies across room on wire.
1N22.33
Carbon dioxide propelled rotational device.
1D10.20
Cycloid disk draws path on chalkboard.
1K10.30
Rolling spool: String on spool is pulled at various angles.
3A15.50
"Sweet Spot": Meterstick pivot point changes with point struck.
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Meterstick suspended in mid-air by horizontal strings and weights.
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Force on hinged beam measured with transducer.
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Two transducers measure forces from centered hanging mass.
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Same as A+60+15, but mass in different position.
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Center of gravity (toy) objects.
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Tensegrity: The Impossible Table
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Stability of ladder depends on weight distribution
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Applet: Motion of the Center of Mass
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Stacking Blocks Extend Over Base
1J10.09
Rotation about the center of mass: Object to throw.
1J10.12
Irregular shapes to determine center of mass using plumb bob.
1J10.26
Center of mass of a baseball bat
1J30.10
Car hangs balanced by forces in mid-air over removable inclined plane.
1J40.70
Forces on crane boom measured with transducer.
1J40.75
Anatomical models: Skull, Arm, Leg
1K10.30
Static equilibrium for a rope on a spool. Same as A+55+5.
1K10.50
Disk (weighted off-center) rolls up inclined plane.
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Twisting a rod with one end fixed and the other hung with weights.
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Applet: Balancing Act
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Various Levers Set Out for Display
1J40.15
Torque wrench to demonstrate.
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Relative velocity: Three electric cars on tracks make chalk line.
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Rope with slug(unit of mass) in center is lifted from ends.
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Film loop: "Vector addition: Velocity of a boat", 3:35 min.
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Applet: Ship Traveling in a Current
1A40.10
X,Y,Z-coordinate system with vector arrows.
1A40.10
Vector arrows of various sizes and colors fit in wooden bases.
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Chain hoist.
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Block and tackle.
1M20.11
Pulley sets.
1M20.20
Block and tackle: Bosun's chair.
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Applet: Chaotic Pendulum
3A95.52
Chaotic pendulum.
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Compound pendulum: Meterstick with movable brass weight.
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Damped oscillations: Flat steel spring with removable weights.
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Java Applet: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
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Java Applet: A-vector and V-vector arrows
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Pocket watch with mirror and laser twitches with balance wheel motion.
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Applet: Masses and Springs
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Applet: Pendulum Lab
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Applet: Simple Harmonic Motion with and without Damping
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Applet: Lissajous Figures
1Q10.20
Large torsion pendulum with different diameter rods.
3A10.10
Simple pendulum: Ball on a string.
3A10.14
Four pendulums on rod: Same mass, different lengths.
3A10.17
Four pendulums on rod: Same length, different masses.
3A10.30
Torsion pendulum with removable weights.
3A15.20
Physical pendulum: Steel bar with two pivot points.
3A20.10
Mass on a spring.
3A20.60
Ball rolling in a spherical dish on OHP.
3A40.20
Ball on turntable rotates beneath synchronized pendulum .
3A50.10
Large damped oscillator (mass on spring) with various damping disks.
3A60.55
Clock spring oscillator: Electrically driven and damped.
3A60.60
Inverted pendulum.
3A80.21
Transparencies: Lissajous figures for OHP.
3A80.40
Lissajous figures with laser and two signal generators.
3A80.40
Lissajous Figures created with a two tuning forks with mirrors
3D46.15
Tuning forks, various.
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5 Metronomes on board and cans sync their oscillations
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Applet: Normal Modes
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Coupled Oscillations Simulation
3A70.10
Wilberforce pendulum: Oscillates between rotation and up-down.
3A70.20
Two pendulums on a frame of flexible steel.
3A70.25
Two large pendulums coupled with spring.
3A70.31
Three large pendulums coupled with two springs.
3A70.35
Two balls hung on the same string, one in middle, one at the end.
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Clock spring oscillator: Electrically driven and damped.
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Damped oscillations in a resonant LCR circuit on an oscilloscope.
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Video: Slow Motion of Shattering Wine Glass
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Video: Shattering Wine Glass : 0:42 min
3A60.10
Film : "Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse",silent, 4 min.
3A60.24
Driven oscillations in a multiple spring-mass system.
3A60.40
Driven harmonic oscillator: Motor driven mass on spring.
3A60.50
Set of three coupled inverted pendulums on wood base.
3B70.10
One tuning fork with tuned cavity, drives another.
3D40.55
Driven Harmonic Oscillations
3D40.55
Beaker is broken by sound from speaker.
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Hand held long torsional wave device
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Applet: Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion
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Applet: Longitudinal Waves
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Applet: Dispersion Applets
3B10.10
Rubber rope stretched across front of room.
3B10.10
Brass spring on white plastic sheet.
3B10.30
Torsional wave device, large or small.
3B10.50
Transverse wave model, hand-cranked.
3B10.70
Transverse 3-dimensional wave model, hand-cranked.
3B20.10
Suspended slinky on threads for compression wave.
3B20.35
Longitudinal wave model, hand-cranked.
3B39.10
Mechanical water wave model, hand-cranked.
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Transparencies: Fourier superpositions.
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Fourier decomposition: microphone and oscilloscope.
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Applet: Fourier Synthesis
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Applet: superposition
3C50.10
Fourier synthesis.
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Moveable speakers create interference
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Interference between two ultrasound sources (40 kHz).
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Beats with two beer bottles blown manually.
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Appet: Ripple Tank Simulation
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Applet: Pinicple of Superposition (1)
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Applet: Principle of Superposition (2)
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Applet: Traveling Waves and Superposition -- Exercise Set 2
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Applet: Stationary wave
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Applet: Superposition of waves
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Applet: Wave workshop
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Applet: 2-D Wave Simulation
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Applet: 3-D Wave Simulation
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Applet: Sound Wave Interference
3B50.10
Interference in a ripple tank uses arc lamp or incandescent light.
3B50.55
Large wood model of a double slit with hinged waves.
3B55.10
Interference of sound waves from two speakers, same generator.
3B55.40
Acoustic interference with Quincke (trombone) tube and sonalert.
3B60.10
Beats with tuning forks on tuned cavities.
3B60.20
Beats from two speakers observed on an oscilloscope.
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Caruga horn: Varigated tube to blow through
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Feedback from microphone/speaker system.
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Applet: Vibrational Behavior of an Empty Beer Bottle
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Applet: Vibrational Modes of a Tuning Fork
3B30.01
Ultrasound transducers (40 kHz) as both sources and receivers.
3B30.30
Bell ringing in a jar evacuated with pump.
3C20.15
Galton's whistle: Compressed air whistle.
3C20.16
Steel spring pendulum, inverted, vibrates at 10 Hz.
3C20.30
Siren: large, electric motor driven.
3C20.30
Compressed air jet blows through spinning disk with holes.
3C20.40
Savart's wheel: Toothed wheel and cardboard or air jet.
3C20.40
Sprockets on shaft rotate against a card to make sound.
3C50.12
Casio electronic synthesizer with amp and speaker.
3D30.35
Twirling Tube
3D30.40
Helmholtz resonators drive radiometer vanes, using tuning forks.
3D30.40
Helmholtz Resonators with tuning forks and a candle
3D30.70
Hoot Tube
3D46.40
Giant tuning fork, barely audible, displayed with stroboscope.
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Driven standing waves with different mass/unit length strings.
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Applet: Group Velocity Demonstration
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Set of ten suspended metal rods struck with a wooden mallet.
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Applet: Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion
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Applet: Standing Waves
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Applet: Transverse and Longitudinal waves
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Applet: Longitudinal Waves - 1
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Applet: Standing logitudinal waves
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Applet: Standing Wave (Explanation by Superposition with the Reflected Wave)
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Applet: Fourier Synthesis
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Applet: Superposition of waves
3A60.50
Unbalanced spinning wheel vibrates spring steel reeds.
3B10.30
Torsion wave model.
3B22.10
Rope and strobe: Transverse standing waves, motor driven.
3B22.60
Model of longitudinal standing wave, hand-cranked.
3D20.10
Sonometer: Resonant chamber with bowed strings (2).
3D30.50
Ruben's tube: Standing sound waves in flames along a large pipe.
3D32.10
Set of eight organ pipes to make a major scale.
3D32.25
Tunable organ pipe.
3D40.10
Xylophone.
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Film loop: "Vibrations of a metal plate", 3:45 min.
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Film loop: "Vibrations of a drum", 3:25 min.
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Young's modulus rod: Hammer and rod with nodes marked.
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Applet: Vibrational Modes of a Circular Membrane
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Applet: Hotel webcam of pool during California Eartquake 2010
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Applet: Vibrational Modes of a Rectangular Membrane
3D30.60
Kundt's tube: Powder in tube shows standing waves.
3D40.20
Longitudinal wave apparatus: Ball bounces off end of stroked rod.
3D40.30
Chladni's disc: Bowed disk forms patterns in sprinkled salt.
3D40.31
Chladni's Figures: Vibrational modes of a metal plate
3D40.51
Large glass bowl with ping pong balls and violin bow.
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Speed of sound in air: Speaker resonates air column over water.
3B30.20
Measurement of speed of sound with microphone, speaker, oscilloscope.
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Film loop: "Doppler effect", 3:45 min.
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Applet: Doppler Effect
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Applet: Observe the change in a star's spectrum as its motion changes.
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Search: Black Body
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Applet: Doppler Shift
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Applet: The Doppler Effect and Sonic Booms
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Applet: An Example of Doppler Effect
3B40.10
Sonalert swung on the end of a string.
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Whip
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Film loop: "Formation of shock waves", 3:45 min.
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Applet: Bauer & Westfall
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Film: "The Piano", sound, 27 min.
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Applet: Fourier Synthesis
3C10.10
Ear models.
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Global warming demo with CO2 levels rising
4C32.11
Humidity: Hygrometers to show.
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Applet: Energy Forms and Changes
4B10.10
Computer demo: Nesting can calorimeter, runs 3 min.
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Film loop: "Properties of a gas", 3:18 min.
4D30.10
Mechanical model of a gas: Vibrating balls strike piston on OHP.
4F30.95
Carnot cycle models: Piston/cylinder, PVT surface.
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Computer demo: Conductivity (see C+15+3), runs 5 min.
4B30.20
Set of metal rods: Heat-sensitive paint changes color.
4B30.40
Copper/wood cylinder wrapped with paper over bunsen burner.
4B50.20
Boiling water in paper cup; cup does not burn.
4B50.70
Copper gauze over flame; gas burns only above gauze.
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Food coloring added to cold, room temperature, or hot liquid
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Hot air balloon: Dry cleaner bag over Bunsen burner rises to ceiling.
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Applet: Balloons & Buoyancy
4B20.10
Heat water in "O" shaped tube adding a dye.
4B20.25
Cardboard strip drawn from glass tube extinguishes candle.
4D20.10
Crooke's radiometer with flashlight, arc lamp or IR source.
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Model of an air pump.
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Applet: Otto Engine
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Applet: Carnot Circle
4F30.10
Operating Sterling cycle engine, gas powered.
4F30.10
Operating Sterling cycle engine, hot water powered.
4F30.50
Engine models: Steam, 4-cycle Otto.
No PIRA
Faucet for demonstration
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Siphon from one beaker to another
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Marriote’s Bottle. Vertical standpipe with constant water pressure
No PIRA
Pythagorean Cup and self starting siphons
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Large sphere surrounded by small spheres rises to surface
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Bernoulli effect: objects drawn together
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Smoke Ring Generator
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Glass standpipes: Water flows through tube, heights vary.
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Compressed air attracts card with pin to holder.
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Pitot tube inserted in wind stream with manometer indicator.
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Applet: Fluid Pressure and Flow
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Applet: Vector Fields
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Applet: Faraday's Law
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Extreme Spin on Launched Ball
2B60.60
Hydraulic ram water pump, working model.
2C10.10
Water in vertical standpipe with holes at different heights.
2C20.10
Venturi meter: Manometer tubes on tapered wind tunnel tube.
2C20.15
Glass standpipes with a constriction. Similar to C+25+10.
2C20.20
Glass aspirator: Compressed air draws colored water up glass tube.
2C20.30
Bernoulli's principle: Ball suspended in air stream.
2C20.35
Compressed air through funnel sucks in ball.
2C20.53
Two roof models, hinged, placed in wind stream.
2C20.80
Flettner rotorcar blown with fan.
2C40.63
Video camera shows fluid flow around various objects.
2C50.15
Airzooka
2C50.30
A water vortex in two soda bottles joined vertically.
4F10.30
A vortex tube seperates compressed air into jets of hot and cold air.
No PIRA
One balloon inflates another
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Various bubble frames.
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Superhydrophobic surfaces
2A10.25
Wire sieve boat floats on water until alcohol is added.
2A20.10
Set of capillary tubes and dye on video camera.
2A30.10
Soap boat or camphor boats in one meter square pan of water.
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Illustration of buoyancy and drag force
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Fist in and out of water
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Drag demo with coffee filters
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Interconnected tube of various elevations with immiscible liquids.
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Ice is sliced in two by wire creating high pressure.
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Mat held down by atmospheric pressure.
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Incompressibility of water in two different sized syringes
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Archimedes' principle: weighing beakers in water.
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Archimedes' principle: Fish submerged in water on balance beam.
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Film loop: "Archimedes' principle", 3:40 min.
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Interconnected tube with immiscible liquids.
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Working model of the lung: Balloons in a bell jar over a diaphragm.
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Vacuum hoist, working model.
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Inversion table and blood pressure monitor
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Applet: Buoyancy
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Applet: Density
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Applet: Fluid Pressure and Flow
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Applet: Buoyant Force
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Applet: More Buoyancy
2B20.10
Revolving 'drumhead' with manometer shows pressure in water tank.
2B20.40
Interconnected set of glass vases of different shapes.
2B20.42
Pascal's vases: Water in removable vases with pressure gauge.
2B20.60
Hydraulic jack with pressure gauge, breaks 2"x 2" piece of wood.
2B30.25
Collapse 1 gallon metal can with vacuum pump.
2B30.30
Magdeburg's hemispheres(cast iron) evacuated, can't be separated.
2B30.36
Suction cup holds large mass suspended from heavy glass plate.
2B30.70
Vacuum Cannon
2B35.15
Torricelli Barometer: Column of mercury in bell jar.
2B35.40
Large model of aneroid barometer.
2B40.20
Archimedes' principle: Cup and plug on balance beam.
2B40.30
Cartesian divers: Pressure on cap sends divers sinking.
2B40.40
The weight of air.
4B40.14
Archimedes' principle: Aluminum and brass cylinders.
No PIRA
Mechanical equivalent of heat: Aluminum cylinder, crank, rope with 5 kg weight and large LED display.
4F10.20
Ball race: Five different balls heated and placed on paraffin sheet.
No PIRA
Applet: States of Matter: Basics
4C20.53
Computer demo: Heat of fusion of tin.
No PIRA
Java Applet: Gas mixing simulation
No PIRA
Film loop: "Reversibility of time", 3:40 min.
No PIRA
Film: "Symmetry in physical law" (Feynman), sound, 57 min.
No PIRA
Film: "Distinction of past and future "(Feynman), sound, 46 min.
No PIRA
Film: "Probability and uncertainty "(Feynman), sound, 56 min.
4F10.10
Drum in glycerine rotates to smear line of dye into a plane and back.
4F10.20
Black balls and white balls in a box are shaken.
No PIRA
Hexstat probability device.
No PIRA
Diffusion of Ammonia and HCl.
No PIRA
Equipartition of Energy: Different mass balls bounce out at different times.
No PIRA
Applet: Gas Properties
No PIRA
Applet: A molecular explanation of pressure
No PIRA
Applet: Brownian motion
No PIRA
Applet: Maxwell's Demon
2C30.10
Viscosity of air: One rotating disk drives another.
3B30.50
Breathe helium, voice pitch rises; breathe SF6, voice pitch lowers.
4B10.70
Ruchardt's tube: Ball oscillates in a vertical glass tube on jug.
4D10.10
Brownian motion: Smoke particles viewed using TV camera.
4D10.20
Brownian motion: Like C+55+0, with an aluminum disk added.
4D30.10
Mechanical model of a gas: Vibrating balls strike piston on OHP.
4D30.20
Mechanical model of a gas: Vibrating balls on OHP.
4D30.40
Stoekle's apparatus: Heated tube with mercury and glass bits.
4D50.20
Osmosis of helium through semi-porous cup.
No PIRA
Pressure Chamber for Demonstrating the Critical Temperature and Opalescence
No PIRA
Hydraulic pump liquifies CO2 gas in glass column.
No PIRA
LN2 demos: pewter bell and spring, color change tube, LN2 cannon.
No PIRA
Film: "Unusual properties of liquid helium", sound, 16 min.
No PIRA
Pewter bell rings true after submersion in liquid Nitrogen.
No PIRA
Film: "Bubble model of a metal", silent, 11 min.
No PIRA
Model of calcite crystal.
1R50.20
Wave surfaces of crystals.
1R50.30
Assorted crystals to show.
4A40.90
Molecular models, ball and stick.
7B50.50
Wall chart of periodic table.
No PIRA
Blackbody color change as temperature increases
No PIRA
Large transformer heats metal strip with chalk marks on it.
No PIRA
FLIR T200 Infrared camera
No PIRA
Applet: The Greenhouse Effect
No PIRA
Applet: Radiating Charge
No PIRA
Applet: Blackbody Spectrum
No PIRA
Applet: Synchrotron Radiation
No PIRA
Applet: Blackbody Radiation
No PIRA
Applet: Plank Radiation Formula
No PIRA
Applet: Electrodynamics Simulation
No PIRA
Applet: Antenna Simulation
4B40.10
Light the Match.
4B40.11
Concave mirrors focus candle flame on thermopile across bench.
4B40.40
Computer demo: Kirchhoff's radiation law, runs 15 min.
4D20.10
Crooke's radiometer with flashlight, arc lamp or IR source.
6B40.20
Box with white interior appears black from hole in the side.
No PIRA
Heating a rubber band: negative coefficient of thermal expansion
No PIRA
Cubic coefficient of expansion: Dissectable wooden cube.
No PIRA
LN2 in a model cannon shoots a cork.
No PIRA
Charles' Law: At constant P, Volume is proportional to Temperature.
No PIRA
Grain Silo explosion: A cloud of power is ignited and blows lid off of can.
4A30.10
Bimetallic strip: Brass/invar strip curves when heated.
4A30.11
Bimetallic switch: Change in temperature lights cold/hot lamps.
4A30.21
Ring and ball: Ball fits through ring only after ring is heated.
4A30.30
Heated steel rod expands, raises pointer,breaks pin on cooling.
4A30.60
Heated horizontal nichrome wire stretches, weight sags.
4A30.61
Heated iron wire stretches, rotates pointer.
4B60.70
Steam gun: Friction heated water in tube shoots a cork.
4B70.10
Fire syringe: paper is ignited in a cylinder with a piston.
4B70.20
Cooling by expansion: Jar with water compressed with air.
4B70.31
Piston and cylinder compress/expand air measuring temp. and pressure.
4C20.20
Ice bomb: Iron sphere ruptured by freezing water.
4C20.45
CO2 fire extinguisher: Expanding gas freezes into snow.
4C30.25
Hot water geyser, runs 5-10 min.
4C31.40
Dippy bird: Large glass bird containing ether oscillates.
4C33.50
Franklin's pulse glass: Two glass bulbs and tube containing ether.
4E10.11
Galileo's air thermometer forces liquid down when heated.
4E20.10
Boyle's Law: At constant T, Pressure times Volume is a constant.
4E30.10
Gay-Lussac's Law: At constant V, Pressure is proportional to Temperature.
No PIRA
Galilean thermometer
No PIRA
Transparency: Comparison of F deg , C deg , and K temperature scales.
No PIRA
Transparency: Chronological history of the concepts of heat.
4A10.10
Measurement of temperature: Various types of thermometers.
4A10.50
Liquid Crystals: sheet changes colors with body temperature.
4E10.11
Galileo's air thermometer forces liquid down when heated.
4C10.10
P.V.T. surface model for water.
4C10.10
P.V.T. surface model for carbon dioxide.
4C10.30
Wall chart of isothermals.
4C20.40
Freezing liquid Nitrogen.
4C30.15
Triple Point demo: Water boils under vacuum making ice.
4C50.40
Triple Point: Cooled water in sealed cell exhibits all three phases.
No PIRA
Coefficient of restitution depends on temperature
No PIRA
Breaking point of a wire is measured on a spring scale.
No PIRA
Shear: Stack of masonite squares.
No PIRA
Viscosity set: Pistons in oil and water-filled glass tubes.
No PIRA
Applet: Microwaves
No PIRA
Applet: Molecules and Light
1R20.15
Young's modulus of elasticity: Weight stretches wire.
1R20.70
Prince Rupert's Drops.
1R30.20
Shear: Foam block.
1R40.10
Elasticity: Balls bouncing on steel or glass cylinder.
No PIRA
Energy Stored in Dielectric
No PIRA
Attraction between plates of a capacitor causes attachment of plates when insulator is introduced.
No PIRA
Attraction between horizontal plates of a charged capacitor.
No PIRA
Capacitor doorbell driven by Van de Graaff generator.
No PIRA
Parallel capacitors array: A charged capacitor charges the others.
No PIRA
Capacitors with a series neon bulb on A.C. and D.C.
No PIRA
Capacitor in series in an audio circuit: High pass filter.
No PIRA
Effects of changing a D.C. voltage in a series RC circuit.
No PIRA
Capacitor in parallel in an audio circuit: Low pass filter.
No PIRA
Capacitor in parallel in a D.C. circuit.
No PIRA
Energy storage in a commercial capacitor. Loud bang!
No PIRA
Same as D+0+30 using speaker for audio tone generation.
No PIRA
Applet: Capacitor Lab
No PIRA
Applet: Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab
No PIRA
Applet: Water Droplets in Electric Field
No PIRA
Applet: RC Circuits
No PIRA
Applet: CR Filter's Response (Analog)
5C10.10
Various capacitors to show.
5C20.10
Parallel plate capacitor with dielectric materials and electroscope.
5C20.21
Force on a dielectric in a capacitor
5C30.30
Discharging a capacitor through a lamp.
5C30.42
Series capacitor array.
5F30.12
Visual charge/discharge of a capacitor through a load.
5F30.20
Computer demo: Charge/discharge of a capacitor, runs at least 1 min.
5F30.60
Oscillator made with resistor, capacitor and neon lamp.
5F30.60
Same as D+0+30 using oscilloscope to display waveform.
No PIRA
High frequency filtering using a capacitor and inductor.
No PIRA
Crystal radio circuit for AM reception.
No PIRA
Damped oscillations in a resonant LCR circuit on an oscilloscope.
No PIRA
Seibt effect: Wire wound glass tube with 510 transmitter.
No PIRA
Lodge's experiment: Spark gap radio transmitter and receiver.
No PIRA
Magnetron assembly to show.
No PIRA
Standing waves (micro or sound) in an adjustable cavity.
No PIRA
AM and FM Demonstration(minimum 24 hr notice required).
No PIRA
Wall chart of electromagnetic spectrum.
No PIRA
LEDs oscillate in stored energy LC circuit.
No PIRA
Applet: Radiating Charge
No PIRA
Applet: Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields
No PIRA
Applet: Electrodynamics Simulation
No PIRA
Applet: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
No PIRA
Applet: The Field of a Moving Charge
No PIRA
Applet: Antenna Simuulation
1N10.55
Waveguide pieces to show.
5L20.11
LCR series resonance curve of V vs. F (2 - 20kHz) on an oscilloscope.
5L20.20
Resonance in a series LCR circuit using 120 v.a.c.
5L20.21
LCR paradox
5N10.50
Standing waves on two parallel wires, with 510 transmitter.
5N10.60
85 MHz radio transmitter, with indicating lamp on dipole antenna.
5N10.80
Plexiglas model of electromagnetic wave.
5N30.30
3 cm. microwave transmitter and receiver.
5N30.31
3 cm. microwave klystron oscillator with cavity and waveguides.
No PIRA
Alternate charge resides on outside of conductor
No PIRA
Like Charges Attract
No PIRA
Vector arrows to show electric field and particle motion
No PIRA
Electric fields: Lines of force shown on an OHP.
No PIRA
Transparency: Mapping of an electric field.
No PIRA
Discharging an electroscope through ionization
No PIRA
Charge resides on the outside of a conductor.
No PIRA
Electrostatic doorbell: Ball bangs between charged plates.
No PIRA
Applet: Charges and Fields
No PIRA
Applet: Electric Field Hockey
No PIRA
Applet: Electric Field of Dreams
No PIRA
Applet: John Travoltage
No PIRA
Applet: Balloons and Static Electricity
No PIRA
Applet: 3D Electrostatic Field Simulation
No PIRA
Applet: Field and potential produced by point charges
No PIRA
Applet: Electrostatics Visualizations - The Charged Metal Slab
No PIRA
Applet: Electric Field
No PIRA
Electrostatics Index
No PIRA
Applet: Electrostatics Simulation
No PIRA
Applet: 2-D Electrostatic Field Simulation
5A10.10
Braun and Leaf electroscopes.
5A10.20
Electrophorous: Cat fur on teflon, acetate on lucite.
5A10.35
Separation of charge using electrical tape and an electroscope.
5A20.20
Pith balls on thread, with positive and negative charged rods.
5A20.22
Attraction and repulsion of charged styrofoam balls.
5A40.16
Charging an electroscope by induction.
5A40.70
Kelvin water drop electrostatic charge generator.
5A50.10
Wimshurst machine, large or small.
5A50.30
Van de Graaff generator.
5B10.15
Electrostatic pinwheel:Van de Graaff makes pinwheel spin.
5B20.10
Faraday's ice pail: Charge induced on the outside of a pail.
5B20.35
Faraday cage: blocks signal from portable radio
5B30.40
Electric field created by Van de Graff splits ions in flame
5C30.10
Various Leyden jars to show.
No PIRA
Jumping Rings with AC or DC driving
No PIRA
Oscillating magnets in coupled coils
No PIRA
Eddy currents: Copper disk rotates over a spinning bar magnet.
No PIRA
Skin effect: Metal sheet shielding varies with frequency.
No PIRA
Equivalence of large and small loops around enclosed flux
No PIRA
Flux through loop. EMF depends on position of the meter?
No PIRA
Magnet inserted and withdrawn from copper ring causes ring to swing
No PIRA
Applet: Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab
No PIRA
Applet: Faraday's Law
No PIRA
Applet: Genereator
No PIRA
Applet: The Falling Ring with Finite Resistance
No PIRA
Applet:Visualizing Electricity and Magnetism at MIT
No PIRA
Applet: Light Index
5J10.20
Back EMF in a series DC motor with large flywheel.
5K10.10
Elementary generator: Bar moved in magnetic field.
5K10.20
Bar magnet induces current in a coil, shown on galvanometer.
5K10.24
Demonstration of dependence of number of coils on induced flux
5K10.60
Earth inductor: Coil spun in Earth's field makes voltage.
5K20.10
Damped pendulum: Swinging metal disks damped in magnetic field.
5K20.25
Eddy currents:Small magnet slowly drops between aluminum rails.
5K20.25
Eddy currents: Neodymium Magnet Drop.
5K20.30
Jumping rings: High current AC coil causes rings to jump.
5K20.41
Levitator: Aluminum dish floats four inches off platform.
5K40.20
Generator: Coil with DC commutator rotates between magnets.
5K40.20
Alternator: Coil with AC commutator rotates between magnets.
5K40.80
Hand-cranked AC alternator powers 120 volt lamp.
5K40.80
Hand-cranked DC generator powers 120 volt lamp.
No PIRA
Energy stored in large coil with soft iron core flashes bulb.
No PIRA
Applet: Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab
No PIRA
Applet: Molecular Expressions Electricity and Magnetism
No PIRA
Applet: Inductance
5J20.10
LR time constant: Square wave drives series LR on oscilloscope.
5L10.10
AC dimmer: Soft iron core in coil dims lamps.
No PIRA
Applet: RLC Circuits (DC)
No PIRA
Applet: RLC Circuits (AC)
No PIRA
Applet: Circuit Simulator
5L20.10
Phases of V and I in series circuit as RL shifts to RC.
No PIRA
Electromagnet with removable core
No PIRA
Earth model with internal magnet and pivoting probe magnet.
No PIRA
Magnetic field around a solenoid with pivoting probe magnet.
No PIRA
Torque on coil suspended between two magnets.
No PIRA
Elementary motor: De La Rive Tube - out of service
No PIRA
Hall effect: Magnetic field induces a voltage in a neon plasma.
No PIRA
Applet: Magnet and Compass
No PIRA
Applet: Magnets and Electromagnets
No PIRA
Applet: Current Loop
No PIRA
Applet: Force on Moving Charges
No PIRA
Applet: Magnetostatics Index
No PIRA
Applet: Magnetic Field
No PIRA
Applet: 3-D Magnetostatic Field Simulation
5G10.16
Suspended magnetic lodestone on string.
5H.40
Force on current carrying wire in a magnetic field
5H10.11
Large compass needle on stand.
5H10.15
Dip needle compass.
5H10.25
Compass needle shows field around a high current wire on bench top.
5H10.30
Iron filings and permanent magnets to show field on an OHP.
5H15.10
Iron filings around a high current vertical wire on OHP to show field.
5H15.10
Iron filings around a current carrying coil on OHP to show field.
5H30.15
Vacuum tube with screen shows cathode rays bent with a magnet.
5H30.21
E/M tube: Circular bending of an electron beam in a magnetic field.
5H40.10
Ampere's law: Currents in parallel wires attract or repel.
5H40.30
Force on a current carrying wire in a magnetic field.
5H40.71
Elementary motor: Bar on rails over solenoid with core.
No PIRA
Inverter Magnet
No PIRA
Making a magnet by electromagnetic induction.
No PIRA
Mass Driver
No PIRA
Curie temperature
No PIRA
Mass driver: One of these balls is not like the other
5G10.20
Making small magnets by breaking up a larger magnet.
5G20.10
Barkhausen effect: Magnet and coil with soft iron core.
5G20.30
Barkhausen effect model: Many tiny magnets on pivots on OHP.
5G30.10
Para and diamagnetic materials in magnetic field with OHP.
5G30.10
Para and diamagnetic materials in magnetic field with arc lamp.
5G50.50
YBaCuO pellet with magnet in liquid nitrogen on TV camera.
5H20.20
Wobbly bar: Magnets in frame balanced by repulsive forces.
5H25.25
Linear motor: An iron core jumps into a solenoid.
No PIRA
Elementary galvanometer: Coil on spring in magnetic field.
No PIRA
Mavometer: Ammeter / voltmeter / galvanometer
No PIRA
Various meters for display.
No PIRA
Applet: Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab
5H25.10
Tangent galvanometer: Compass needle pivots in a coil.
5H40.71
Ammeter shunt: Only a small current flows to the meter.
No PIRA
AC induction motor: Armature in a whirling field.
No PIRA
Elementary motor: Electron beam revolves in magnetic field.
No PIRA
Elementary motor: Magnets and battery and copper coil make a simple motor.
No PIRA
Simple motor rolls straight and in circle
5H40.70
Elementary motor: Magnet, wire and battery make a simple motor.
5K40.10
Rolling bar motor: Same as D+30+ 20.
5K40.10
Elementary split-ring armature DC motor. D+15+6 as a motor.
No PIRA
The Braun tube with magnetic and electrostatic deflection.
No PIRA
Conductivity of solution with free ions
No PIRA
Large tungsten filament lamp; as it heats, current drops.
No PIRA
Same as D+55+12 using speaker for audio tone generation.
No PIRA
Film: "Elementary electricity", sound; 8 min.
No PIRA
Applet: Battery-Resistor Circuit
No PIRA
Applet: Conductivity
No PIRA
Applet: Kirchhoff's Rules (Circuit 2)
No PIRA
Applet: Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab
No PIRA
Applet: Ohm's Law
No PIRA
Applet: Resistance at the Molecular Level
5D10.40
Resistor analog: Marbles cascading down pin board.
5D20.15
Resistance thermometer: Iron coil in liquid Nitrogen and flame varies current.
5D20.30
Effect of temperature on current in carbon or tungsten filaments.
5F15.16
Watt's law: Variable resistor, glow coil, volt and amp meter.
5F15.35
High current melts the fuse wire.
5F20.55
Resistance boards: Series, parallel, Wheatstone bridge.
5F30.60
Oscillator with resistor, capacitor and neon lamp.
5F30.60
Same as D+55+12 using oscilloscope to display waveform.
No PIRA
Photoelectric effect: Light on P-N junction causes current flow.
No PIRA
Impact on piezo-electric device flashes neon bulb.
No PIRA
Applet: Fermi Level, Fermi Function and Electron Occupancy of Localized Energy States
No PIRA
Applet: Fermi Level vs. Carrier Concentration and Doping of Donor and Acceptor Impurities
5L30.10
P-N Junction as a rectifier: Current flows one way.
5L30.10
P-N Junction as a rectifier: Diode bridge rectifies AC voltage.
7A10.40
Several commercial solar cells.
7A10.40
Commercial solar cell spins propeller using small arc lamp.
5D40.42
Edison effect: Electrons are cast off from hot filament.
5E50.10
Thermocouple and thermopile, both make electricity from heat.
5E50.30
Thermocouple magnet: Flame with water cooling holds weight.
5E50.30
Thermocouple magnet: Flame with ice bath, holds weight.
5E50.60
Thermoelectric fan: Fan runs off of hot and cold water.
5E50.60
Peltier junction: Forward current freezes water drop, reverse boils.
No PIRA
Automobile coil makes a spark.
5D40.10
Same as above: Secondary used for small Jacob's ladder.
5D40.10
Large Jacob's ladder.
5K30.25
Demountable transformer with many secondary coils from 10:1 to 1:46.
5K30.40
Same as above: Secondary used for spot-welding.
5K30.40
Same as above: Secondary used for induction melting.
5N20.40
Large Tesla coil. 15 inch discharge.
5D40.25
Copper nail and iron nail in a lemon using a multimeter.
5E40.20
Gotham cell: Assorted metal electrodes in sulfuric acid bath.
5E40.60
Storage cell: Gotham cell is charged up and rings a bell.
5E20.10
Electrolysis of water produces hydrogen and oxygen.
5E20.15
Bubble Electrolysis.
No PIRA
Red, green, blue light on three-sided rotatable pyramid.
No PIRA
Purkinje effect: At low intensity, blue is more visible than red.
No PIRA
Two slides plus red and green light gives full color illusion.
No PIRA
Applet: Color Vision
No PIRA
Applet: Optical Illusions
No PIRA
Applet: Additive Color
6F10.16
Three-color projector for additive color mixing with arc lamp.
6F10.20
Cyan, magenta, and yellow filters mix subtractively on OHP.
6F10.25
Newton's color disk: When rotated,appears white.
6F10.30
Arc light spectrum recombined with concave mirror on lucite rod.
6J11.10
Rotating disk with black and white lines makes color illusion.
6J11.70
Standard color blindness tests and box of colored yarns.
7B11.40
Arc light spectrum with various filters.
No PIRA
Limit of Resolution: Blue or Red LEDs that can be brought together
No PIRA
Applet: Diffraction
No PIRA
Applet: Single-Slit Difraction
6C10.10
Single slit diffraction using laser beam through adjustable slit.
6C10.15
Two points of light diffract through an iris, shown with T.V. camera. (RETIRED)
6C10.50
Microwave diffraction by a large adjustable iris.
6C20.10
Poisson's spot: Interference pattern within circular shadow.
6C20.15
Diffraction about pinhead, razorblade, wood screw using laser.
6C20.30
Airy's disk: Pinhole diffraction using laser beam.
6C20.45
Microwave zone plates.
6D20.10
Laser beam through sets of 1, 2, or multiple electro-formed slits.
6J10.80
Limit of resolution: Two small lamps on adjustable slide.
6Q20.10
Laser beam diffraction off coil and being reassembled (DNA analysis simpulation a la Rosalind Franklin's experiment)
7A60.50
Bragg diffraction using microwaves and steel balls in foam cube.
No PIRA
Wall chart of mercury spectrum.
No PIRA
Applet: transmission and absorption spectra of all the elements
No PIRA
Applet: Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps
No PIRA
Applet: Tim's Grating
6D20.15
Diffraction patterns of various gratings using He-Ne laser.
6D20.20
First and second order transmission gratings, with arc lamp.
6D20.20
Reflection grating with arc lamp.
6D20.20
Mercury spectrum using slit and grating, includes UV lines.
7B10.10
Hand-held gratings for class to view Hg, Ne discharge tubes.
7B10.11
Arc lamp spectra from NaCl, CaCl2, SrCl soaked rods.
7B11.10
Absorption spectrum of Na using arc lamp, slit and grating.
No PIRA
Films: "Laser light", U of Utah, sound, 38 min.; "Introduction to Holography",sound, 17 min.; "Introduction to Lasers", sound, 17 min.
6Q10.10
Transmission hologram viewed with laser light.
6Q10.10
Reflection hologram viewed with white light.
No PIRA
Red/green/blue line source viewed with double slit paddles.
No PIRA
Laser projected through Fabry-Perot interferometer shows pattern.
No PIRA
Applet: Michelson-Morley Experiment
No PIRA
Applet: Interference of Waves
No PIRA
Applet: Double slit experiment
No PIRA
Applet: Interference of Light at a Double Slit
3B50.12
Ripple tank with plane or spherical water waves and barriers.
3B50.55
Large wood model of a double slit with hinged waves.
6D10.20
Microwave interference with single and double slits.
6D20.10
Laser beam through various slit and grating combinations.
6D30.10
Newton's rings by transmission or reflection on arc bench.
6D30.10
Same as E+25+30, using Hall's prism.
6D30.20
Soap film interference: The soap bubble experiment on arc bench.
6D30.30
Thin film interference with optical flats and sodium lamp.
6D30.40
Thin film interference with mercury light on mica sheets.
6D30.65
Oil film interference on water.
6D40.10
Michelson interferometer fringes with laser or white light.
6D40.20
Microwave interference by multiple reflection.
6D40.27
Lloyd's mirror: Laser beam interferes with reflection from glass.
No PIRA
Real images: Lighted ‘F-object’ and an astygmatic lens.
No PIRA
Real images: Lighted ‘F-object’ and a cylindrical lens.
No PIRA
Air, glass and water lenses in water tank with arc lamp.
No PIRA
Cylindrical lens of lucite with words "DIOXIDE GLASS".
No PIRA
Cylindrical aberration: Wooden model.
No PIRA
Applet: Geometric Optics
No PIRA
Applet: Thin Lens
No PIRA
Applet: Two thin lenses
No PIRA
Applet: Spherical Thin Lens in Gauss' Condition
No PIRA
Applet: Auto-colimation Method
No PIRA
Applet: Bessel Method
No PIRA
Applet: Badal Method
No PIRA
Applet: Vision Corrections
No PIRA
Applet: Setting the reticulated bezel
No PIRA
Applet: Astronomical Telescope
No PIRA
Applet: Galileo's Telescope
No PIRA
Applet: The Microscope
6A10.10
Blackboard optics: Light sources with lucite lenses.
6A60.31
Real images: Lighted arrow image and various lenses.
6A65.20
Large lens shows chromatic aberration on screen using arc lamp.
6A65.30
Pincushion and barrel distortion of lenses using arc lamp.
6A65.70
Fresnel lenses to show.
6A70.10
Galilean telescope: similar to E+30+45.
6A70.10
Compound microscope is assembled from lenses.
6A70.20
Astronomical telescope: Using objective and eyepiece lenses.
6J10.21
Model of the eye, with near/far sight lenses, using arc lamp.
9A30.20
Lantern slide projector with removable housing.
6F10.61
Color by reflected and transmitted light, using gold leaf.
No PIRA
Shape of Reflection depends on shape of mirror
No PIRA
Hand held plane mirror and right angle mirror.
No PIRA
Retrodirective reflector: Silvered right angle prism, using laser.
No PIRA
Applet: Thin Lens (converging/diverging lens/mirrors)
No PIRA
Applet: Plane Mirror
No PIRA
Applet: Spherical mirror: study of stigma
No PIRA
Applet: The Newton telescope
No PIRA
Applet: The Cassegrain telescope
6A10.10
Blackboard optics: Light sources with plane and curved mirrors.
6A10.11
Arc lamp and mirror on large disk rotate showing beam angles.
6A10.40
Variable angle mirror assembly with candle.
6A10.45
Barbershop mirrors:Parallel mirrors with light bulb.
6A10.60
Phantom lightbulb: Image in a plane mirror.
6A20.30
Phantom bouquet: Real image from a concave mirror.
6A20.35
Clam shell mirrors: Floating coin illusion.
6A20.40
Reflections from concave and convex mirrors with lighted arrow.
6A20.60
Concave mirrors focus candle flame on thermopile across bench. (same as 650)
6A20.60
Light the Match (same as C+65+2).
No PIRA
Shiny object turns black viewed through linear polarizer and quarter wave plate
No PIRA
Polarization of light by internal reflection: Fresnel rhomb.
No PIRA
Plaster models of positive and biaxial crystals.
No PIRA
Two tourmaline crystals act as polaroids, using arc lamp.
No PIRA
Model of a calcite crystal.
No PIRA
Mechanical model to show circular polarization; hand-cranked.
No PIRA
Circular polarization of microwaves by elliptical metal tube.
No PIRA
Circular polarization of microwaves: With reflector and grids.
No PIRA
Polarized light thru Karo syrup shows dark bands, using arc lamp.
No PIRA
10_ retarder plate makes dark bands in spectrum, using arc lamp.
No PIRA
Applet: Polarization of Light (3-D Version)
6H10.10
Commercial Polaroid filters on an OHP.
6H10.20
Microwaves with grid. Transmitter and receiver are polarized.
6H10.30
Two picket fence sections with slats and rope to make waves.
6H20.20
Malus experiment: Polarization by reflection off glass surface.
6H20.40
Polarization of light through a pile of glass plates, using arc lamp.
6H30.30
Optical rotation by sugar solution produces barber pole, using arc lamp.
6H30.41
Optical rotation of polarized light by sugar solution, using arc lamp.
6H35.10
Light through polaroid and calcite, using arc lamp.
6H35.17
Visible nodes and antinodes in linearly birefringent plexiglass rod.
6H35.30
Light through Nicol prism and Nicol analyzer, using arc lamp.
6H35.40
Circular polarization with quarter wave plate, using arc lamp.
6H35.50
Polarized light and stressed lucite on an OHP.
6H35.52
Quartz prisms give a single and double spectrum, using arc lamp.
6H50.10
Sunset: solution in tank scatters blue light, using arc lamp.
No PIRA
Four-prisms, same index of refraction, different angles, using laser.
No PIRA
Eight-prisms, different index of refraction, same angle, using laser.
No PIRA
Dove prism to erect projected images using arc lamp.
No PIRA
Binoculars and Porro prisms to show.
No PIRA
Applet: The Prism
5N30.10
Refraction of white light by prism using arc lamp.
6A42.10
Blackboard optics: Light source and lucite prism.
6A44.68
Total internal reflection: 45 deg-45 deg-90 deg prism using arc lamp.
6F30.20
Light from arc lamp enters direct view prism emerges as spectrum.
No PIRA
He-Ne laser compared to non-coherent red light bulb.
No PIRA
Applet: Electric Field Lines around an Oscillating Charge
No PIRA
Applet: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
No PIRA
Applet: Synchrotron Radiation
No PIRA
Applet: Fermat's Principle
No PIRA
Applet: Radiation Pressure
6A61.20
Image formed by a pinhole using three light bulbs in a box.
6B10.20
Inverse square law: Light bulb in wire frame.
No PIRA
Glass cube demonstrates reflection, refraction, and total internal reflection.
No PIRA
Displacement of a beam passing through a thick plate of glass.
No PIRA
Indices of Refraction: glass in glycerin and phantom crystals.
No PIRA
Fiber optic cable transmits picture from slide to video monitor.
No PIRA
Microwave analogy of the light pipe using flexible metal tubing.
No PIRA
Applet: Reflection of a sin wave
No PIRA
Applet: Bending light
No PIRA
Applet: Refraction and Reflection
No PIRA
Applet: Specular and Diffuse Reflection
No PIRA
Applet: Refraction of Light
No PIRA
Applet: Reflection and Refraction
No PIRA
Applet: Physics of Rainbows
No PIRA
Applet: The world above the water, as seen by a fish
No PIRA
Applet: Diopter: a study of refraction
No PIRA
Applet: Spherical surface: a study of refraction
No PIRA
Primary and Secondary Bow of a Rainbow
No PIRA
Applet: Zen Photon Garden
6A10.18
Reflection of microwaves off an aluminum plate.
6A40.40
Variable index of refraction: laser beam bends in water tank with sugar.
6A44.20
Total internal reflection/critical angle: Nakamura water tank.
6A44.40
Light pipes and fiber optic flashlight.
6A44.40
Flexible light pipe using arc lamp.
6A44.45
Water fiber optic
6A46.10
Rainbow: Refraction of white light by a liquid sphere.
No PIRA
IR source illuminates audience viewed with CCD TV camera in dark room.
No PIRA
FLIR T200 Infrared camera
No PIRA
Measurement of light intensity: Footcandle meter.
No PIRA
Applet: Blackbody Spectrum
4B40.11
Concave mirrors and horn thermopile senses candle across room.
4D20.10
Crooke's radiometer with flashlight or IR source.
6B40.41
Detection of the IR, visible, and UV spectra using arc lamp.
6B40.55
As light bulb filament increases temp. its spectrum shifts red to blue.
7B13.50
UV light causes mineral and fabric samples to fluoresce different colors.
No PIRA
Braun tube (CRT) with magnetic and electrostatic deflection.
5H30.10
Vacuum tube with screen show cathode rays bent with a magnet.
5M20.20
Vacuum tube with metal cross makes shadow with cathode rays.
5M20.20
Vacuum tube with paddlewheel spins from cathode ray impact.
No PIRA
X-Ray tube: Hard X-rays detected by fluorescent screen.
No PIRA
X-ray beam through cloud chamber shown on TV camera
5D40.80
X-rays ionize electrode and discharge electroscope.
7A60.50
Bragg diffraction using microwaves and steel balls in foam cube.
No PIRA
Film: Matter Waves, sound, 28 min.
7A60.10
Electron diffraction by aluminum and graphite on CRT.
No PIRA
Phototube circuit allows current flow in one direction only.
No PIRA
EMF generated by phototube using halogen light source.
No PIRA
Light hits diode,causes current flow. Uses arc lamp.
No PIRA
NPN junction as a phototransistor amplifier.
No PIRA
Film loop: Photoelectric effect, 4:02 min.
No PIRA
Applet: Conductivity
No PIRA
Applet: Davisson-Germer: Electron Diffraction
No PIRA
Applet: Photoelectric Effect
7A10.10
UV light hits charged zinc plate and discharges electroscope.
7A10.35
Light through different filters into phototube changes current.
7A10.40
Commercial solar cell spins propeller using halogen light source.
7A10.43
Recording modulates laser beam which hits solar cell and amplifier.
9A80.40
Film: "Photons", sound, 19 min..
9A80.40
Film: "Interference of photons", sound 13 min.
9B20.30
Photomultiplier tubes to show.
No PIRA
Model of the nucleus: Steel balls in plastic dish on OHP.
No PIRA
Film: "Rutherford atom", sound, 40 min.
No PIRA
Bohr-Stoner charts(5): Electron configurations of the elements.
No PIRA
Wall chart or online applet of the nuclides.
No PIRA
Applet: Build an Atom
No PIRA
Applet: Models of the Hydrogen Atom
No PIRA
Applet: Orbits
No PIRA
Applet: Quarks
No PIRA
Applet: Atoms and Spectra
No PIRA
Applet: Elements
No PIRA
Applet: Electron Configurations
No PIRA
Applet: Rutherford Scattering
No PIRA
Applet: Predicted Rutherford Scattering from a Thomson Atom
7B50.10
Mechanical models of the hydrogen atom.
7B50.50
Wall chart or online applet of periodic table.
7D50.10
Rutherford scattering model: Steel balls, launcher, and "hill".
7D50.30
"Plum pudding": Corks with magnets float in bowl/solenoid on OHP.
No PIRA
Java applets: Quantum Properties
No PIRA
Barrier penetration simulation
No PIRA
Applet: Schordinger wave equation
7A50.20
Tunneling:Microwave analogy using wax prisms.
No PIRA
Fundamental particle and interaction chart.(LBL)
No PIRA
Cloud chamber shows X-rays: Same as F+5+10.
7D30.50
Expansion cloud chamber with water and compression bulb.
7D30.50
Wilson cloud chamber, piston compression type.
7D30.60
Cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol shown on TV camera.
7D30.50
Alpha range measured using small cloud chamber.
No PIRA
Film: "Franck-Hertz experiment", sound, 30 min.
No PIRA
Applet: various simulated experiments
No PIRA
Applet: Space-Time Physics
No PIRA
Applet: Special Relativity and clocks
No PIRA
Applet: Light Clock
No PIRA
Wall chart of the nuclides.
No PIRA
Film loop: "Radioactivity", 4:00 min.
No PIRA
Applet: Alpha Decay
No PIRA
Applet: Beta Decay
No PIRA
Applet: Radioactive Dating Game
No PIRA
Applet: Decay
7D10.10
Geiger counter.
7D10.40
Mechanical model of radioactive decay.
7D30.11
Scintillation counter using Geiger tube.
No PIRA
Applet: Cyclotron
7D30.70
Large mechanical model of the cyclotron.
No PIRA
Demonstration of Proton Proton Chain
No PIRA
Model of the uranium pile.
No PIRA
Applet: Nuclear Fission
No PIRA
Applet: Nuclear Decay
7D20.10
Mousetrap chain reaction experiment.
5G50.50
YBaCuO pellet with magnet in liquid nitrogen on TV camera.
No PIRA
Magnetic field splits Cd interferometer lines on TV camera.
No PIRA
Working helium-neon laser in transparent housing.
No PIRA
Applet: Laser
No PIRA
Applet: Molecular Motor
No PIRA
Applet: Optical Tweezers and Applications
No PIRA
Applet: The Laser
No PIRA
Applet: Laser Fundamentals
No PIRA
Fuel cell car runs off hydrogen and oxygen.
No PIRA
Applet: Band Structure
No PIRA
Applet: Double Wells and Covalent Bonds
No PIRA
Applet: Quantum Bound States
No PIRA
Applet: Quantum Tunneling and Wave Packets
No PIRA
Applet: Quantum Wave Interference
No PIRA
Applet: Quantum Physics Online
No PIRA
Applet: Hydrogen Atom Orbital
No PIRA
Applet: Molecular Orbital
No PIRA
Applet: 1-Dimensional Particle States
No PIRA
Applet: 1-Dimensional Radiative Transitions
No PIRA
Applet: Atomic Dipole Transitions
No PIRA
Applet: 2-Dimensional Rectangular Box
No PIRA
Applet: 2-Dimensional Circular Box
No PIRA
Applet: 2-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator
No PIRA
Applet: Rigid Rotor
No PIRA
Applet: 3-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator
No PIRA
35mm slides for astronomy.
No PIRA
Applet: Planetary Motion
No PIRA
Applet: Kepler's Laws Demonstrations
No PIRA
Applet: Projectile Orbits and Satellite orbits
No PIRA
Applet: Newton's Canon Animation
No PIRA
Applet: SSC, Orbit
No PIRA
Applet: Observe the change in a star's spectrum as its motion changes
No PIRA
Applet: Kepler's Second Law
No PIRA
Applet: Moon
No PIRA
Applet: Kepler Motion
No PIRA
Applet: Shoot a cannonball into orbit!
No PIRA
Earth, Sun, and Mars model.
No PIRA
Gravitational lens model.
No PIRA
Applet: Cosmos Scale
No PIRA
Cut out pie pan demonstrates path when centripetal force disappears
8A10.15
Solar system model.
8A40.15
Vault of the heavens: Large lucite globe.
No PIRA
Shepard Tones: repeating tones appear to continuously ascend or descend
No PIRA
Revolving window illusion.
No PIRA
Rotating disk and strobe demonstration.
No PIRA
Indices of Refraction: glass in glycerin and phantom crystals.
6A20.30
Phantom Bouquet: Real image from a concave mirror.
6A20.35
Clam shell mirrors: Floating coin illusion.
6J11.52
Optical illusion posters.
No PIRA
Purkinje effect: At low intensity, blue is more visible than red.
No PIRA
Two sides plus red and green light gives full color illusion.
3C20.16
Limit of audibility: Set of rods that ring at different frequencies.
6B40.41
Detection of the IR, visible, and UV spectra using arc lamp on TV camera.
6H10.80
Limit of resolution: Two movable pin-points of light.
6J11.10
Rotating disk with black and white lines makes color illusion.
6J11.65
Pulfrich Effect: Pendulum and polaroid experiment.
6J11.70
Set of color blindness cards.
No PIRA
35mm slides for astronomy.
No PIRA
"Plum pudding": Corks with magnets float in bowl/solenoid on OHP.