PY212 Demos - Spring 1999

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Course schedule:

• Section A - TR 2:00 pm in SCI 115 - Rohlf
• Section B - TR 5:00 pm in SCI 115 - Miller

Day 1 - 1-12-99
Section A and section B - Electric Charge , Electrostatic Charging

• Rods, fur, and silk 5A10.10
• Rods and pivot 5A20.10
• Electroscope 5A22.10
• Charging an electroscope by induction
• Can attracted to charged rod 5A40.20
• 2 x 4 5A40.30
• Confetti 5B10.25

Day 2 - 1-14-99
Electric field

• Fuzzy fur field tank 5B10.40
• Pith balls 5A20.20

Day 3 - 1-19-99
Field; Gauss' Law

• Fuzzy fur field tank 5B10.40
• props for Gauss' Law - balls, cans, disks, and pointers

Day 4 - 1-21-99
Gauss' Law

• props for Gauss' Law - balls, cans, disks, and pointers
• Faraday ice pail 5B20.10
• Radio in a cage 5B20.35

Day 5 - 1-26-99
Electric field near conductors

• props for Gauss' Law - balls, cans, disks, and pointers
• Faraday ice pail 5B20.10
• Radio in a cage 5B20.35

Day 6 - 1-28-99
Potential

Day 7 - 2-1-99
Capacitors

• Parallel plate capacitor 5C10.20
• Capacitor with dielectrics 5C20.10
• Short a capacitor 5C30.20
• Light a bulb with a capacitor 5C30.30

Day 8 - 2-1-99
Capacitors

• Capacitor with dielectrics 5C20.10
• Light a bulb with a capacitor 5C30.30 (B only)

3-4-99
Magnetic forces (B section)

• Jumping wire 5H40.30
• Cathode ray tube 5H30.10

3-16-99
Magnetic fields (B)

• Iron filings around a wire 5H15.10
• Solenoid and iron filings 5H15.40

3-18-99
Magnetic forces (B)

• Parallel wires 5H40.10

3-23-99
Induction

• Induction coils with magnet, galvanometer 5K10.20
• Jumping ring 5K20.30
• Hand crank generator 5K40.80
• Coupled genecons
• Electromagnet

3-25-99
Eddy currents; Generators

• Eddy current pendulum 5K20.10
• Hand crank generator 5K40.80
• Coupled genecons

3-30-99
Eddy currents; Generators

• Coupled genecons (A)
• Eddy current pendulum 5K20.10 (Table-top version - B)

4-1-99
Inductance

• LR circuit with square wave input

4-6-99
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4-8-99
RLC Circuits

• AC with just R, just C, or just L 5L10.17

4-13-99
RLC Circuits and Resonance

• Resonance in an RLC circuit 5L20.19

4-15-99
High and low pass filters

• RC circuit connected as high or low pass filter

4-20-99
EM Waves

• LR circuit with square wave input

4-22-99
Refraction; Total internal reflection

• Refraction using Brewster's angle demo 6H20.10
• laser and fiber optics, light pipes 6A44.40
• water-stream light pipe 6A44.45

4-27-99
Mirrors and lenses

• Curved mirrors
• Real image with the Mirage
• Real image with a converging lens (B only)
• project the spectrum 5N30.10 (B only)

4-29-99
Interference

• Double slit and laser 6D10.10
• Single slit and laser 6C10.10
• Newton's rings 6D30.10
• Soap film interference 6D30.20