Mechanics

• The Monkey and The Hunter
• Simultaneously Shoot and Drop Pair of Spheres
• Projectile Launched Vertically from a Moving Cart

Newt's Laws of Motion

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• Blackboard Mechanics Kit
• Cork Bob Accelerometer

Work and Energy

• Bowling Ball Pendulum
• Blocked Pendulum
• Loop-The-Loop
• Coefficients of Friction
• Friction Cart
• Energy Stored in a Spring

Mechanical Equilibrium

• Assorted Center of Gravity Demos
• Catenary: Bi-Stable Equilibrium
• Mass on Spring: Hooke's Law

Collisions and Conservation of Momentum

• Explosions
• Totally Inelastic Collisions
• Elastic Collisions
• Newton's Collision Apparatus
• Internal Degrees of Freedom

Circular Motion

• Balls in Rotating Cups
• Loop-the-Loop
• Elastic Collisions
• Swinging Water Bucket Overhead
• Conical Pendulum

Rigid Body Rotations

• Assortment of Rolling Things
• Moment of Inertia of a Solid Disk
• Windlass with Variable Moment of Inertia
• Rotating Stool with Dumbbells
• Rotating Stool with a Bicycle Wheel
• Gyroscopes
• Rotating Reference Frame
• Parallel and Non-Parallel Angular Velocity and Momentum

Periodic Motion

• Oscillating Things
• Simple Mass-Spring System
• Damped Harmonic Motion
• Simple Pendulum

Driven Oscillations and Resonance Phenomena

• Driven, Damped Harmonic Oscillator
• Resonance with a Speaker and Adjustable Pipe
• Driven Pendulum
• Modes of Vibration
• Compound Pendulum
• Chaotic Oscillations

Propagation of Mechanical Waves

• Transverse Pulses
• Longitudinal Pulses
• Reflection or Transmission at a Boundary

Superposition of Waves

• Transverse Standing Waves
• Torsional Standing Waves
• Longitudinal Standing Waves
• Fourier Synthesizer

Normal Modes of Vibration

• One dimension
• A Plucked String
• A Driven Vibrating String
• Weakly Coupled Pendulums
• Compound Pendulum

Acoustic Phenomena

• Doppler Effect
• Beat Frequencies
• Interference of Sound Waves
• Sympathetic Vibrations in Tuning Bars
• Speed of Sound in Air and Helium
• Speed of Sound in a Metal

Geometrical Optics

• Blackboard Optics Kit
• Dispersion in a Prism
• Total Internal Reflection
• Fiber Optic Cables
• Speed of Light

Interference and Diffraction

• Single Slit
• Double Slit
• Multiple Slits and Gratings
• Thin Film Interference:
• Wedged Optical Flats
• Soap Bubbles
• Newton's Rings
• Poisson's Spot
• Michelson Interferometer

Polarization

• By Transmission
• By Reflection
• Scattered Light

Thermal Expansion

• Expansion of Brass Tube
• Bi-Metallic Thermostat

Thermal Conductivity

• Dissimilar Metals

Pressure-Volume-Temperature Relationships

• Adiabatic Gas Law
• Pressure Differences
• Model Lung
• Boyle's Law
• V-T Relationship at Constant Pressure
• P-V-T Surface for Water
• Diffusion Through an Aperture
• P-T Relation at Constant Volume

Many Particle Systems

• Equipartition of Energy in a Mixed Gas
• Kinetic Theory & Diffusion
• Brownian Motion Simulation
• Solid-Liquid-Gas Transitions
• Heat Engines:
• Drinking Bird
• Stirling Cycle

Electric Charge and Field

• Positive and Negative Charge by Friction
• Induced Surface Charge on Conductors
• Coulomb's Law
• Distribution of Surface Charge on Conductors
• Capacitors and Energy Storage
• Capacitance vs. Plate Separation
• Van de Graaff
• Jacob's Ladder
• Electric Field Lines
• Force on a Moving Charge in an Electric Field
• Flux Surface and Volume

Current and Resistance

• Resistors in Series and Parallel
• Internal Resistance of a Battery
• Ohmic and Non-Ohmic Devices
• Drift Velocity Demonstrator
• Wire Fryer (DC version)

Magnetic Field and Forces on Currents

• Magnetic Domain Model
• Magnetic Field of Permanent Magnets
• Earth's Magnetic Field: Dip Needle
• Magnetic Field of Currents
• Magnetic Field of a Solenoid
• Magnetic Force on an Electron Beam:
• e/m Experiment
• Circular Orbit
• Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire
• Magnetic Torque on a Current Loop
• Force Between Current-Carrying Wires

Induced Currents and EMF

• Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law
• Enclosed Fields and Magnetic Induction
• Current Generators
• DC Motors
• Eddy Currents:
• Pendulum
• Aluminum Pipe
• Jumping Rings
• Wire Fryer AC
• Transformers and Flux Linkage
• Self-Inductance and Energy Storage
• Displacement Current

Time Dependent Currents

• RC Time Constants
• RLC Oscillations and Energy Dissipation
• Resonance in a Driven RLC Circuit

Superconductivity

• Resistivity vs. Temperature
• Meissner Effect

Electromagnetic Waves

• Dipole Radiator
• Two-Source Microwave Interference
• Standing Microwave Pattern
• Microwave Guides

Quantum Physics

• Photoelectric Effect
• Atomic and Molecular Spectra
• Electron Diffraction

Nuclear and Particle Physics

• Background Radiation
• Ceramic Dinnerware with Uranium Glaze
• Half-Life of Indium 116
• Gamma Ray Spectroscopy

• Resources
• Computer & Projector