• Physics208OLDDemos

Physics 208 - OLD Lecture Demonstrations

Here is a complete list of demos that have been used for this course in the past and contains Honors lecture suggestions. They are grouped by Lecture days thanks to Clint Sprott. This list is only a reference guide and may differ from actual demos used in lecture depending on which faculty is teaching this course.

Course has changed a lot and no longer conforms to this demo list.

Lecture 1

• Electric Fields

• Handouts
• Course Webpage
• Pith balls
• Rods and fur
• Plastic rod and stirrup
• 2 1-kg masses and meter stick

Lecture 2

• Gauss's Law

• Pith balls (again)
• Rods and fur (again)
• Toepler-Holst (or Wimshurst) with irregular conductors
• Conductor with pith balls in and out
• Overhead projector with E and phi pictures

Lecture 3

• Electrostatic Accelerators

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Hugh Richards for any required demos

Lecture 4

• Electric Potential

• Hair in E-field on overhead projector
• Van de Graaff generator and stool
• Electroscope
• Rubber ball

Lecture 5

• Capacitance and Dielectrics

• Sample capacitors
• Exploding wire
• Variation of voltage with plate separation
• Table of dielectric constants
• Jacob's ladder

Lecture 6

• Tour of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Hugh Richards for any required demos

Lecture 7

• Current and Resistance

• Sample batteries
• Table of resistivities
• Ohm's law demo
• Light bulb and coil in liquid nitrogen
• Sample resistors

Lecture 8

• Direct Current Circuits

• Ohm's law board
• RC circuit with square wave on scope (exponential decay)
• Sample galvanometers

Lecture 9

• Atmospheric Electricity

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Hugh Richards for any required demos

Lecture 10

• Catchup Lecture

• Demos to be determined

Lecture 11

• Review

• No demos

Lecture 12

• Exam #1

  • No demos

Lecture 13

• Magnetic Fields

• Benchtop PC with LCD displays
• Two bar magnets
• Compass needle
• Field patterns of magnets on overhead projector
• Force on wire carrying a current in magnetic field
• Sample galvanometers (again)
• Horseshoe magnet and CRT

Lecture 14

• Sources of the Magnetic Field

• Oersted demo (current in wire and compass needle)
• Magnetic field of wires on overhead
• Force between parallel currents

Lecture 15

• Plasma Physics

• Attendance computer
  • My laptop PC with LCD displays
  • Inner tube
  • Plasma discharge tube with horseshoe magnet
  • Levitated ball

Lecture 16

• Faraday's Law

• Magnet and solenoid with electrometer
• AC and DC generators
• Jumping ring
• Can Crusher
• Induction demo
• Transformer
• Eddy currents (with big electromagnet)
• Large Tesla coil with Faraday cage

Lecture 17

• Inductance

• Sample inductors
• Big electromagnet (to show switch opening arc)
• RL circuit with square wave on scope (exponential rise)
• RLC circuit with square wave on scope (ringing)

Lecture 18

• Tour of the Plasma Laboratory

• Attendance computer
  • My laptop PC with LCD displays
  • Inner tube

Lecture 19

• Alternating Current Circuits

• Light bulb with inductor and movable iron core
• RLC circuit with sine wave on scope (resonance and phase)

Lecture 20

• Electromagnetic Waves

• Chart of EM spectrum
• Hertz experiment
• Small Tesla coil and oscilloscope with antenna
• Old radio set transmitter
• Microwave source with polarizers
• Radiometer

Lecture 21

• Radio Communications

• Attendance computer
  • My laptop PC with LCD displays
  • Chart of EM spectrum

Lecture 22

• Catchup Lecture

• Demos to be determined

Lecture 23

• Review for Exam #2

• No demos

Lecture 24

• Exam #2

  • No demos

Lecture 25

• The Nature of Light

• Benchtop PC with LCD displays
• Table of indices of refraction
• Plane mirrors
• Candle under water
• Prism rainbow
• Light guides and fiber optics
• Total internal reflection

Lecture 26

• 'Geometric Optics

• Plane, concave, and convex mirrors
• Convex and concave lenses
• Light source
• Optics board

Lecture 27

• Rainbows, Halos, and Glories

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Hugh Richards for any required demos

Lecture 28

• Interference of Light Waves

• Film loop showing water wave interference (Byron 8560)
• Young's double-slit experiment on optical bench
• Soap-film interference
• Newton's rings
• Optical flats with sodium lamp

Lecture 29

• Diffraction and Polarization

• Optical bench with laser and apertures and gratings
• Poloroid sheets

Lecture 30

• Cosmology

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Don Cox for any required demos

Lecture 31

• Relativity

• Clock and meter stick
• 1-kg mass
• Flashlight

Lecture 32

• Quantum Physics

• Blackbody curves on overhead
• Blackbody radiation
• Franck-Hertz experiment
• Photoelectric effect
• Line emission sources and hand-out gratings

Lecture 33

• More on the Theory of Relativity

• Attendance computer
  • Demos to be determined (minimal)

Lecture 34

• Atomic Physics

• Periodic table

Lecture 35

• Nuclear Structure

• Geiger counter with radioactive sources
• Periodic table
• Overhead projector

Lecture 36

• No Class - Good Friday

Lecture 37

• Catchup Lecture

• Demos to be determined

Lecture 38

• Review for Exam #3

• No demos

Lecture 39

• Exam #3

  • No demos

Lecture 40

• Fission and Fusion

• Benchtop PC with LCD displays
• Mousetrap chain reactor

Lecture 41

• Particle Physics and Cosmology

• Slides of accelerators
• Balloon

Lecture 42

• History of the Atomic Bomb

• Attendance computer
  • Consult Prof. Hugh Richards for any required demos

Lecture 43

• Catchup Lecture

• Demos to be determined

Lecture 44

• Summary and Wrap-up

• Overhead projector (front screen)
• Teaching evaluations

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