Physics 201 Demonstrations
Here is a composite list of demos 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
Measurement:
Standard Meter, 1A10.30
Standard Masses, 1A10.20
Meter Sticks, 1A.EQxx
Powers of 10 Film, 1A60.10 or Scale of the Universe, 1A60.11
Lecture 2
Motion in 1-D:
- Acceleration Air Track
Terminal Velocity With Water, Glycerin, & Marbles, 2C30.50 and 1C10.51
Feather and Penny in vacuum, 1C20.10
Lecture 3
Vectors:
Rubber Ball, 1A.EQxx - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- Wad of cotton
XYZ Unit Vector, 1A30.10
Force board, 1J30.51
- String and block
Lecture 4
Motion in 2-D:
Superball, golf ball, 1A.EQxx
Drop and shot, 1D60.20
Ballistic Cart Launcher (CENCO), 1D60.10a
- Ball on string
Lecture 5
Force and Motion I:
- Inertial Beaker and Cloth
- Ball on String
- Ball on String and Cut String
Rubber Ball, 1A.EQxx - Commonly used as an analogy demo
- 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:
Terminal Velocity With Water, Glycerin, & Marbles, 2C30.50 and 1C10.51
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
Terminal Velocity With Water, Glycerin, & Marbles, 2C30.50 and 1C10.51
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
Lecture 22
Entropy:
- Refrigerator
- Heat engine (Sterling)
- Carnot cycle model