Spring 2004. Greg Tucker.
Thu 1/29
Orrery
meter stick
internet cable every class
laser pointer
powers of 10
Tue 2/3
News seasons bowling ball on hand rotator with Velcro, on rolling tripod with light bulb for sun.
Frictionless air ball for precession
Toy top
Laser pointer
Meter stick
Seasons orrery
Venus orrery
Point source and plane for shadows.
PRS??
Thu 2/5
Thermal seasons globe and lamp.
ripple tank.
laser disc of ripple tank.
Seasons orrery.
Liquid prism rainbow on variac.
meter stick, laser pointer.
No PRS.
Tue 2/10
1. PRS
2. Blackbody with PCI bus Spectrometer on laptop #1.
3. Na absorption and emission
4. Photoelectric w IP39
5. H2 spectra and student gratings
6. Old Doppler buzzer
Thu. 2/12
Blackboard optics
Jospehine's eye
A Meade refractor to take apart in class
Equatorial/alt-ax mount
I will also need (as usual)
A laser pointer
The PRS system (Greg will run the PRS software on his laptop).
Tue 2/17
Repeat Equatorial/alt-ax mount
radio and faraday cage
sunspot on OHP
solar cell convection.
" No PRS!!!!
Laser pointer
Meter stick
Thu 2/19
Thu 2/26
Paralax "A" and "B" on two seats in the back row with an empty seat between. Two meter stick and ruler. Two laser pointers.
1/r squared.
Tue 3/2
exam
Thu 3/4
PRS
laser pointer
Tue 3/9
PRS
Tue 3/9 for Thu 3/11
Blue sky/sunset w polaroid
55 gallon core collapse
Tue 3/16
SFH
Stool, weights and flash light
maybe PRS
Thu 3/18
Hoberman
PRS
Magnet equivalence
flash tube
curved space flower pot, camera
Tue 3/23
Curved space bucket
magnet equivalence
Thu 3/25
H alpha spin flip with two compasses on the OHP
PRS.
Tue 4/6
no demo
Thu 4/8
Ian to lecture
Video segment "Where the Galaxies are". queued at "south of tuscon" 2:43.
Expanding universe transparencies (he has).
Tue 4/13
no demo
Thu 4/15
Grav lens
Crooke's tube and magnet
Tue 4/20
expanding universe balloon and flexible tape
Thu 4/22
repeat balloon
leon's triangle.
Tue 4/27
Leon's triangle again
Thu 4/29
no demo
Tue 5/4
PRS
Video?