Physics 103 Spring 2008
Lecture Demonstrations
 

Wednesday, January 23 (Introduction) Herndon
Computer on Internet and display panels (103 Web page)
Document camera for all lectures
Meter stick and length standards
• Masses and balance scale
• Clock
• Metronome

Monday, January 28 (1-D Motion) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Meter stick (reaction time)
• Extra handouts
Wednesday, January 30 (1-D Motion) Herndon
Aluminum inclined plane
• Ball of cotton
• Guinea and feather tube
• Rubber ball
• Meter stick
• Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)

Monday, February 4 (Vectors) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Arrow
• Dropped and fired balls
• Ballistics car
Wednesday, February 6 (Projectile Motion) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Ball on a string
• Bench PC with Physics Demos program and display panels
• Water stream demo with protractor
• Monkey and hunter

Monday, February 11 (Newton's Laws) Herndon
Rubber ball
• 1-kg mass
• Beaker and cloth
• Pail of water
• Ball and cut string
• Air track
• Inertia ball
• Wood block
• Adjustable inclined plane
• Block and String
Wednesday, February 13 (Newton's Laws) Herndon
Rubber ball
• 1-kg mass
• Wood block
• Spring scale with mass
• Slide of coefficients of friction
• Block and string
• Inclined plane with blocks and carts
• Adjustable inclined plane
• Single rope anchored in wall
• Hammer and nail

Monday, February 18 (Energy) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Bowling ball pendulum
• Balls rolling in troughs
• Cart on inclined plane
• Come-back can
• 1-kg mass
• Air track
Wednesday, February 20 (Work and Kinetic Energy) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Cart on inclined plane
• Block and tackle
• Block and string
• Hooke's law
• Springs with different spring constants
• 1-kg mass
• Weight-lifting machine (power demo)

Monday, February 25 (Momentum and collisions) Sprott
Benchtop PC and LCD display
• Rubber ball
• Happy and sad balls
• Air track
• Momentum balls
• Air table
Wednesday, February 27 (Rockets) Sprott
Momentum balls
• Ballistic pendulum
• Water rocket
• CO2 rocket
• Rotating platform with basketball and CO2
• Rocketcycle

Monday, March 3 (Circular Motion) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Ball on a string
• Conical pendulum
• Block on rotating table
Wednesday, March 5 (Rotational Motion and Gravity) Sprott
Ball on string
• Block on rotating table
• Conical pendulum
• Loop-the-loop
• Rolling chain
• Cavendish model
• Globe (10-inch) and bright light source (100 W lamp)
• Tennis ball

Pail of water

Monday, March 10 (Equilibrium) Sprott
Ball on string
• Center-of-gravity boards
• Torque board
• Moving spool
• See-saw
• Horizontal flag pole
• Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
• Ladder against wall
• Deck of cards
Wednesday, March 12 (Angular Momentum) Sprott
Ladder against wall
• Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
• Weight and axle
• Large inclined plane with balls, disks, and hoops
• Yo-yos
• Rotating platform with barbells
• Bicycle wheel
• Rotating masses on pulleys
• Gyroscopes

Monday, March 24 (Solids) Herndon
Weight of air
• Magdeburg hemispheres
• Manometer
• Hydraulic presss
• Young's Modulus
• Shear Modulus
• Pascal's Vases
• Brownian Motion --BB's
Wednesday, March 26 (Fluids) Herndon
Bernoulli demo (pipe with flowing water)
• Bernoulli (levitated) ball
• Airfoils
• Venturi tube
• Aspirator
• Curve Ball
• Frisbee
• Archimedes principle
• Neutral-buoyancy balloon
• Toilet paper roll and air jet
• Torcelli's Theorem 

Monday, March 31 (Thermal Physics) Herndon
Benchtop PC and LCD display
• Examples of thermometers
• Thermal expansion demos
• Bimetallic strips
• PVT surface of ideal gas
• Pistons
Wednesday, April 2 (Thermal Physics) Herndon
Kinetic theory simulator (ball bearings)
• Kinetic theory demonstrator (Mercury tube)
• Variation of sound speed with temperature
• Balloon

Monday, April 7 (Thermal Energy) Herndon
Liquid nitrogen cannon
• Leidenfrost effect
• Collapsing pop can in water tray
• Freezing by evaporation
• Model geyser
• Ethanol vapor explosion
PVT surfaces - ideal gas, H2O, CO2
• Mechanical equivalence of heat
Wednesday, April 9 (Thermal Energy) Herndon
• Heat convection (candle)
• Heat radiation (parabolic mirrors)
• Heat conduction (marbles on heated rod)

Monday, April 14 (Thermodynamics) Herndon
Wood block
• Expanding balloon when heated and cooled with LN2
• Piston with gun cotton
Wednesday, April 16 (Thermodynamics) Herndon
Automobile engine model
• Carnot cycle model
• Sterling engine

Monday, April 21 (Vibrations) Sprott
• Mass on a spring
• Torsional peldulum
• Simple pendulum

Projected circular motion
Multiple coupled pendula
• Wilburforce pendulum
Wednesday, April 23 (Waves) Sprott
Single rope anchored in wall
• Wave speed on a rope (index cards)
• Compressional wave demo (horizontal slinky)
• Torsional waves (2-segment horizontal and vertical)
• Bowling ball and softball pendulums
• Interference of water waves

Monday, April 28 (Sound) Sprott
Speed of sound
• Oscilloscope and microphone
• Tuning fork
• Bell in vacuum
• Breathing He and Sulfur Hexafluoride
• Sound level meter 
• Doppler effect (rotating arm, train whistle)
• Casette Player with tapes
Wednesday, April 30 (Sound) Sprott
Flame pipe
• Standing wave on a string with strobe lamp
• Oscilloscope and microphone
• Sine and square waves, noise source (with speaker)
• Musical instruments
• Tuning fork
• Singing rod
• Dog whistle
• Interference of sound
• Open and closed organ pipes with hot-air gun
• Beat frequencies
• Sound level meter 
• Casette Player with tapes

Monday, May 5 (Review) Sprott
Demos TBD
Wednesday, May 7 (Review) Sprott
Demos TBD
• Teaching evaluations.