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Physics 247 Demonstrations

Here is a composite list of demos FROM PHYS:201 that have been used for this course in the past 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

• Motion in 1-D:

• Feather and Penny in vacuum

Lecture 2

• Motion in 2-D:

• "Shoot the monkey"

Were we left off in the edited

Lecture 3

• Superball, golf ball
• Liquid N2 Cannon
• Drop and shot
• Water stream demo with protractor
• Ball on string

Lecture 5

• Force and Motion I:

• Inertial Beaker and Cloth
• Ball on String
• Ball on String and Cut String
• Rubber ball
• 1 kg mass
• Pail of water
• Air track
• Inertia ball
• Wood block
• Ropes anchored on wall
• Hammer and nails

Lecture 6

• Force and Motion II:

• Marbles in Oil
• Rubber ball, steel ball
• Adjustable inclined plane
• Spring scale with weight
• 3x4 slide of coefficient of friction
• Wooden Block on a String
• Atwood machine

Lecture 7

• Circular Motion:

• Ball on string
• Conical pendulum
• Rubber Stopper on a Turntable
• Marble Drop: Water vs. Glycerol

Lecture 8

• Kinetic Energy and Work:

• Pinball and Inclined Plane
• Various Springs and Projectiles

Lecture 9

• Potential Energy:

• Bowling ball pendulum
• Hooke’s Law
• Energy Tracks with Balls
• Loop the Loop
• Come-Back Can

Lecture 10

• Systems of Particles:

• Two students sized dollies
• Air Track and Carts (Elastics and Inelastic)
• Dolly or Char with an Extinguisher
• CO2 rocket

Lecture 11

• Collisions:

• Two students sized dollies
• Air Track and Carts (Elastic and Inelastic), plus string loops and metal spring
• Ballistic pendulum

Lecture 12

• Rotation:

• Rotating Platform with Barbells

• Weight & Axle

• Gyroscope
• Yo-yo

Lecture 13

• Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum:

• Gyroscopes
• Rotating Platform with Bicycle Wheel, Barbells, and CO2 Cylinder
• Rocket Powered Tricycle

• Wheel & Axle

• Come-Back Spool
• Torque Board
• Come-Back Can
• Inclined Plane with Balls, Disks, and Hoops
• Bicycle Wheel Train

Lecture 14

• Equilibrium and Elasticity:

• Seesaw
• Books over the edge
• Young’s Modulus
• Stack of cards

Lecture 15

• Gravitation:

• Solar system model
• Cavendish

Lecture 16

• Chaos and Randomness:

• Metronome
• Magnetic pendulum
• Chaotic double pendulum
• Computer demos
• Driven cart with pendulum, balls in troughs, aquarium
• Firehose instability with compressed air
• Dripping faucet

Lecture 17

• Fluid Mechanics:

• Hydraulic press
• Archimedes
• Ventauri Tube
• Curve ball
• Bernoulli demos (all)
• Magdeburg Hemispheres
• Tortachelly (water stream trajectory)
• Boyle’s law

Lecture 18

• Oscillations:

• Hooke’s Law with Dashpot
• Torsional pendulum
• Coupled pendula
• Wilberforce pendulum
• Driven pendulum
• Physical pendulum
• Driven Spring pendulum
• Projection of Rotating Ball and Pendulum (arc lamp to show shadows)
• Vertical, Circular and Horizontal Motion of Two Orange Disks
• Tacoma Narrows film

Lecture 19

• Relativity:

• Mechanical universe film loop

Lecture 20

• Temperature:

• Thermal Expansion of Ni
• Air thermometer
• Bimetallic strip
• Convection (candle etc.)
• Cu Ball and Ring

• Breaking a Steel Rod, Expansion & Contraction

• Heat Radiation with Parabolic Mirrors
• Two rods with marbles, Conduction
• Freezing by Evaporation (triple point of water)

Lecture 21

• Kinetic theory:

• Ball bearing simulation
• Kinetic theory simulator with mercury and glass beads
• Brownian motion
• Collapsing a pop can in water tray
• LN2 Cannon
• Automobile engine model
• Fire syringe

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