Physics 103 Demonstrations
Lecture 1 (Introduction) • Computer on Internet and display panels (103 Web page) • Document camera for all lectures • Meter stick and length standards • Masses and balance scale • Clock • Metronome
Lecture 2 (1-D Motion) • Rubber ball • Meter stick (reaction time) • Extra handouts
Lecture 3 (1-D Motion) • Aluminum inclined plane • Ball of cotton • Guinea and feather tube • Rubber ball • Meter stick • Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)
Lecture 4 (Vectors) • Rubber ball • Arrow • Dropped and fired balls • Ballistics car
Lecture 5 (Projectile Motion) • Rubber ball • Ball on a string • Bench PC with Physics Demos program and display panels • Water stream demo with protractor • Monkey and hunter
Lecture 6 (Newton's Laws) • Rubber ball • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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)
Lecture 10 (Momentum and collisions) • Benchtop PC and LCD display • Rubber ball • Happy and sad balls • Air track • Momentum balls • Air table
Lecture 11 (Rockets) • Momentum balls • Ballistic pendulum • Water rocket • CO2 rocket • Rotating platform with basketball and CO2 • Rocketcycle
Lecture 12 (Circular Motion) • Rubber ball • 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) • Benchtop PC and LCD display • 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) • Casette Player with tapes
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 • Casette Player with tapes
Lecture 28 (Review) • Demos TBD
Lecture 29 (Review) • Demos TBD • Teaching evaluations.