Physics 5

Fall 2004

Rich Partridge

wed. 9/8
· Pan balance, standard mass, marbles.
· Density blocks, aquarium tank.
· Standard meter.
· Metronome.
· My PC with wireless mouse.

fri
·Galilean incline and metronome
·Tennis ball
·Dynamic track on an incline, masses, cart (to show acceleration is independent of the mass)
·Penny and Feather
·Strings of beads
·long airtrack and glider
·Laptop

Mon 9/13
4 meter sticks for vector xyz (note: make one)
Vector stick and hand rotator and shadow projector
magnetic bb vectors

wed 9/15
4 meter sticks for vector xyz (note: make one)
· howitzer
· simultaneous two ball fall
· Tennis ball every class
water parabola
Laptop

mon 9/20
Platter and puck
Lanou Device
Monkey and Hunter
Vertical Billiards
Tennis ball (every class)


Wed 9/22
· Laptop
· BB mechanics component of a force vector
· Airtrack and glider
· Inertia ball and string
· Cart and pulley on flat surface
zani carts
Foucault pendulum

mon 9/27
· Atwood's
· Normal Force
· Burning string
· Static equilibrium of a block on an incline
· Dynamic cart balanced by mass and pulley on an inclined dynamic track.

wed 9/29
Topic: Frictional forces, drag, air, water.
· Leaf blower on a variac, beach ball, tennis ball, sand-filled tennis ball.
· Pulling block, lock and unlock wheels for rolling table.
· Puck on a tilting board
· Terminal velocity and metronome
· Microscope slides to show friction between two flat surfaces.
· Mop

Mon 10/4
· Loop the Loop
· Ring w cut
· Bucket of water
· Cork on a string
· Puck on a platter

Wed 10/6
· Pile Driver
· New ball launcher ramp
· Racing Balls
· Spring loaded Dynamic cart up incline
· Tennis Ball to Toss
· Brick to carry
· mop
· Laptop

Wed 10/13
He will be here on Tue 10/12.
· BB mechanics Pulley #15
· Series and parallel springs
· Stiff spring and force scale
· Block and Tackle lift a 55 gallon drum, remove locking latch.

Mon 10/18
* Potential well track
* Airtrack and one spring
* Tennis ball
* Nose basher

Wed 10/20
Lead shot and thermometer
Tilted airtrack and sliding mass
Happy and Sad balls
Bike generator and light bulbs
Solar cell, lamp and fan motor
Crooke's Radiometer
Stirling Engine

Mon 10/25
· COM wrench
· bb mech unequal simple lever
· com board
· inch worm
· COM crescent shape
· Two Stirling engines, Hot Plate and Cold Plate.

Wed 10/27
1) Egg and sheet.
2) Water balloons.
3) Tennis ball.
4) Walk in the boat. Also, throw a heavy
5) Spring apart two dynamic carts.
6) Dynamic cart cart on a track-on-a-track.


Mon 11/1
1) Dynamic carts for collisions; Both equal masses oand unequal masses, and also elastic and inelastic.
2) Newton's Cradle
3) Basketball and Tennis ball.
4) Airtrack for Firecracker sandwich, unequal mass gliders, and equal mass gliders.
5) Kik-dis air pucks on lecture bench for 2-D collisions.
6) Water Rokit
7) Red ball express


Wed 11/3
· Kik-dis air pucks on lecture bench
· Water Rokit
· Red ball express


Mon 11/8
Rotating Skew rod
Racing Ball. ring, disk at end of lecture
Blue Block to rotate
Moment of inertia bars

Wed. 11/10
· Whirlygig
· Parallel axis demo
· Heavy wheel as a pulley, string and
mass hanger with different masses.
· Torque bar.

Mon 11/15
* Walk the spool
* Yoyo
* "Faster than g", falling stick with ball and cup
* Hoberman
* Ice skater

Wednesday, November 17
1. bike wheel precession
2. Bike wheel and stool
3. Gyro
4. Video: Acrobatic Astronauts
5. tipping block
6. large sphere and ball
7. feeble disk
8. Balance bird
9. Curious George

Monday, November 22
1. Stacking blocks.
2. Slipping ladder.
3. Wine Butler.
4. Walk the plank.
5. Stress fork viewed through crossed polaroids.
6. Atomic crystal made with springs to show compression.
7. Shear foam.
8. Stretch three different strings.
note: no bending rod.

Wed 11/24
Mechanical Universe Videos; SHM and Resonance.
Note: He is recovering from a back injury and regrets that he cannot be here.

Mon 11/29
Begin Oscillations and SHM:
1. Air track and oscillating glider connected by two springs.
2. 4 types of SHM; Torsion oscillator, Physical pendulum, Simple pendulum, vertical mass and spring.
3. Sine Wave on oscilloscope, function generator.
4. Sonic Ranger plotting position v. time for an oscillating mass and spring.
 

Wed 12-1
Tuning fork on scope, wax
Break glass
Driven mass and spring
Tacoma Narrows video disk
Eddy current pendulum
Airtrack, glider w springs, variac damping
Shadow project UCM is SHM

Mon 12-6
Cavendish
BB Ellipse

Fri 12/10
1. Levitating superconductor
2. Crush the 55 gallon drum