Physics 103 Demonstrations Old list
Here is a composite list of demos that have been used for this course in the past by Clint Sprott and are grouped by Lecture days. This list is only a reference guide and may differ from actual demos used in lecture depending on which faculty is teaching this course.
Lecture 1
- Balance scale
Lecture 2
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Meter stick (reaction time)
Lecture 3
- Aluminum inclined plane
- Ball of cotton
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Meter stick
- Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)
Lecture 4
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Arrows (opt. Magnetic whiteboard)
- Dropped and fired balls
Lecture 5
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Ball on a string
{Water stream demo with protractor} - Our current water pressure is unregulated.
- Monkey and hunter(Pasco)
Lecture 6
Newton's Laws
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- 1-kg mass
- Beaker and cloth
- Pail of water
- Ball and cut string
- Air track
- Inertia ball
- Wood block
- Adjustable inclined plane
- Block and String
Lecture 7
Newton's Laws
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- 1-kg mass
- Wood block
- Spring scale with mass
- Slide of coefficients of friction
- Block and string
- Inclined plane with blocks and carts
- Adjustable inclined plane
- Single rope anchored in wall
- Hammer and nail
Lecture 8
Energy
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Bowling ball pendulum
- Balls rolling in troughs
- Cart on inclined plane
- Come-back can
- 1-kg mass
- Air track
Lecture 9
Work and Kinetic Energy
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Cart on inclined plane
- Block and tackle
- Block and string
- Hooke's law
- Springs with different spring constants
- 1-kg mass
- Weight-lifting machine (power demo is in the Museum)
Lecture 10
Momentum and collisions
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Air track
- Momentum balls
- Air table
Lecture 11
Rockets
- Momentum balls
- Ballistic pendulum
- Water Rocket
CO2 Rocket
Rotating platform with basketball and CO2 cylinder
- Rocketcycle
Lecture 12
Circular Motion
Rubber Ball - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Ball on a string
- Conical pendulum
- Block on rotating table
Lecture 13
Rotational Motion and Gravity
- Ball on string
- Block on rotating table
- Conical pendulum
- Loop-the-loop
- Rolling chain
- Cavendish model
- Globe (10-inch) and bright light source (100 W lamp)
- Tennis ball
- Pail of water
Lecture 14
Equilibrium
- Ball on string
- Center-of-gravity boards
- Torque board
- Moving spool
- See-saw
- Horizontal flag pole
- Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
- Ladder against wall
- Deck of cards
Lecture 15
Angular Momentum
- Ladder against wall
- Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
- Weight and axle
- Large inclined plane with balls, disks, and hoops
- Yo-yos
- Rotating platform with barbells
- Bicycle wheel
- Rotating masses on pulleys
- Gyroscopes
Lecture 16
Solids
- Weight of air
- Magdeburg hemispheres
- Manometer
- Hydraulic presss
- Young's Modulus
- Shear Modulus
- Pascal's Vases
- Brownian Motion --BB's
Lecture 17
Fluids
- Bernoulli demo (pipe with flowing water)
- Bernoulli (levitated) ball
- Airfoils
- Venturi tube
- Aspirator
- Curve Ball
- Frisbee
- Archimedes principle
- Neutral-buoyancy balloon
- Toilet paper roll and air jet
- Torcelli's Theorem
Lecture 18
Thermal Physics
- Examples of thermometers
- Thermal expansion demos
- Bimetallic strips
- PVT surface of ideal gas
- Pistons
Lecture 19
Thermal Physics
- Kinetic theory simulator (ball bearings)
- Kinetic theory demonstrator (Mercury tube)
- Variation of sound speed with temperature
- Balloon
Lecture 20
Thermal Energy
- Liquid nitrogen cannon
- Leidenfrost effect
- Collapsing pop can in water tray
- Freezing by evaporation
- Model geyser
- Ethanol vapor explosion
PVT surfaces - ideal gas, H2O, CO2
- Mechanical equivalence of heat
Lecture 21
Thermal Energy
- Heat convection (candle)
- Heat radiation (parabolic mirrors)
- Heat conduction (marbles on heated rod)
Lecture 22
Thermodynamics
- Wood block
Expanding balloon when heated and cooled with LN2
- Piston with gun cotton
Lecture 23
Thermodynamics
- Automobile engine model
- Carnot cycle model
- Sterling engine
Lecture 24
Vibrations
- Projected circular motion
- Multiple coupled pendula
- Wilburforce pendulum
Lecture 25
Waves
- Single rope anchored in wall
- Wave speed on a rope (index cards)
- Compressional wave demo (horizontal slinky)
- Torsional waves (2-segment horizontal and vertical)
- Bowling ball and softball pendulums
- Interference of water waves
Lecture 26
Sound
- Speed of sound
- Oscilloscope and microphone
- Tuning fork
- Bell in vacuum
- Breathing He and Sulfur Hexafluoride
- Sound level meter
- Doppler effect (rotating arm, train whistle)
Lecture 27
Sound
- Flame pipe
- Standing wave on a string with strobe lamp
- Oscilloscope and microphone
- Sine and square waves, noise source (with speaker)
- Musical instruments
- Tuning fork
- Singing rod
- Dog whistle
- Interference of sound
- Open and closed organ pipes with hot-air gun
- Beat frequencies
- Sound level meter
Lecture 28
Review
- Demos TBD
Lecture 29
Review
- Demos TBD
- Teaching evaluations.