PY233 Demos - Spring 1998

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Course schedule:

• section A - TR 2 pm in SCI B58 - Chasan

Day 1 - 1-13-98 - Intro

Day 2 - 1-15-98 - Constant acceleration

• Penny and feather 1C20.10
• Free-fall timer 1C30.10

Day 3 - 1-20-98 - Forces

• mass on a spring scale
• Inertia balls 1F20.10

Day 4 - 1-22-98 - Forces

• Force table to show equilibrium
• Action - reaction carts 1H10.17
• Electrostatic force with pith balls 5A20.20

Day 5 - 1-27-98 - 2-D motion + circular motion

• Simultaneous fall (independence of x and y) 1D60.20
• Pail of water 1D50.40

Day 6 - 1-29-98 - 2-D motion + circular motion

• Monkey and hunter 1D60.30
• Howitzer and tunnel 1D60.10
• Falling off the merry-go-round 1D55.30
• Model of a centrifuge

Day 7 - 2-3-98 - Momentum

• Newton's sailboat 1H10.20
• Water rocket 1N22.20

Day 8 - 2-5-98 - Momentum and collisions; energy

• Newton's cradle (collision balls) 1N30.10
• PASCO carts, equal and unequal mass 1N30.32
• Slingshot
• Stopped pendulum 1M40.15

Day 9 - 2-10-98 - Energy

• Racing balls
• Potential well 1M40.25

Day 10 - 2-12-98 - Rotation; Moment of inertia; Angular momentum

• Plumb bob method (big pig) 1J10.10
• Balancing bird (tightrope walking model) 1J20.46
• Moment of inertia demo 1Q10.10
• Whirligig conical pendulum 1D50.20

Day 11 - 2-19-98 - Angular momentum

• Rotating platform with bicycle wheel 1Q40.30
• Whirligig conical pendulum 1D50.20

Day 12 - 2-24-98 - Ideal gases

• Constant volume bulb 4E30.10

Day 13 - 2-26-98 - Kinetic theory; Archimedes' Principle

• PASCO molecular motion model 4D30.12
• Brownian motion 4D10.20
• Diffusion simulation
• Archimedes's principle

Day 14 - 3-3-98 - Bernoulli Effect

• Cartesian diver 2B40.30
• Venturi tube 2C20.10
• blowing between two hanging light bulbs

Day 15 - 3-5-98

Day 16 - 3-17-98 - Heat

• Heat conduction with liquid crystals 4B60.10
• Leslie cube 4B40.30
• Mechanical equivalent of heat 4B60.10
• Method of mixtures - lead ball and water

Day 17 - 3-19-98 - Thermodynamics and engines

• Heat engine 4F30.15

Day 18 - 3-24-98 - Engines

• Stirling engine 4F30.10
• Hero's engine 1Q40.80

Day 19 - 3-26-98 - Diffusion

• Diffusion simulation

Day20 - 3-31-98 - Simple harmonic motion

• long spring + Slinky
• Hooke's law spring 1R10.10
• Mass on a spring 3A20.10
• PASCO cart between springs 3A20.35
• Driven PASCO cart 3A60.20

Day 21 - 4-2-98 - Simple harmonic motion / Sound

• long spring
• Circular motion vs. mass on spring 3A40.10
• Vertical resonance tube 3D30.10
• Tuning fork and oscilloscope

Day 22 - 4-7-98 - Sound and waves

• Standing waves on a string 3B22.10
• Ripple tank - double source 3B50.20
• Ripple tank - single slit 3B50.10
• Doppler buzzer 3B40.10
• Vertical resonance tube 3D30.10

Day 23 - 4-9-98 - Sound and waves

• Doppler buzzer 3B40.10
• Single slit and laser 6C10.10
• Double slit and laser 6D10.10

Day 24 - 4-14-98 - Electric fields

• Rods, fur, and silk 5A10.10
• Rods and pivot 5A20.10
• Electroscope 5A22.10
• Pith balls 5A20.20
• Confetti 5B10.25
• Fuzzy fur field tank 5B10.40

Day 25 - 4-16-98 - Batteries and capacitors

• Lemon battery 5E40.25
• Two-potato clock 5E40.26
• Capacitor and light bulb 5F30.10
• Lifting weight with a capacitor 5C30.35

Day 26 - 4-21-98 - Electricity and resistance

• Resistance model 5D10.40
• Electrical equivalent of heat 5F15.10

Day 27 - 4-23-98 - Transformers

• Transformer 5K30.20

Day 28 - 4-28-98 - Magnetic fields

• Iron filings around a wire 5H15.10
• Solenoid and iron filings 5H15.40
• Induction coils with magnet, galvanometer 5K10.20
• Parallel wires 5H40.10

Day 29 - 4-30-98 - Induction

• Dip needle 5H10.15
• DC motor 5K40.10
• Hand crank generator 5K40.80
• Induction coils with magnet, galvanometer 5K10.20
• Jumping ring 5K20.30
• Microwave emitter and receiver