Physics 4

Spring 2004

See-Chen Ying

Mon 1/28
Ping Pong Clatterer
One PVC rod, One Acrylic rod, 2X4, copper rod, Pink Flamingo and rotating stands
Two electroscopes, foil type and Pasco
VdG and Wig

Fri 1/30
1st Conservation of charge, me to do.
2nd New Coulomb's law, me to do.
3rd Ping Pong Clatterer, me to do.

Mon 2/2
Ping Pong Clatterer

Wed 2/4
Torque on a dipole
E field lines, all four configurations.

Fri 2/6
Maybe nothing or Gauss law props wax ball for any shape.

Mon 2/9
Gauss' Law
Faraday cage and radio

Wed 2/11
no demo. He will discuss potential.

Fri 2/13
High-low discharge VdG
Radio and faraday cage.
Foil leaf elecroscope shielded in farady cage.

Mon 2/16
Big Bang Cap
Cap and lamp
Demo cap
assorted caps
series-parallel big-small caps

Wed 2/18
1) Resistor show ohms law. Show that it is Ohmic, linear. Three voltage points.
2) Diode. show it is non-ohmic. Three voltage points and reverse voltage.
3) Cap and motor


Fri 2/20
Lemon battery
fuel cell
solar cell

Wed 2/25
Ohm's Law and Circuit Puzzlers
wireless mic

Fri 2/27
RC flasher, use LN to cool the R and change the time constant?
coil in LN with lamp.

Fri 2/27
RC flasher
Coil of wire in LN with lamp

Fri 2/27 for Mon 3/1
No demo. Exam review.
wireless mic

Fri 2/27 for Wed 3/3
No class. exam.

Fri 2/27 for Fri 3/5
• Small Bar magnet and filings with "Earth Mask"
• Crooke's Tube and Magnet
• 2 bar magnets on rotating stands
• Static electricity rods and fur, compass not deflected.
• Magnet and electroscope not deflected.

Mon 3/8
• small coil and iron filings on OHP
• E/M

Wed 3/10
Jumping Wire
Flipping loop
Torque on a loop

Fri 3/12
B field around wire
parallel current wires

Mon 3/15
long solendoid, hall probe
solenoids and filings on OHP, two types

Mon 4/5
Jim Valles
reflection
refraction tank

Wed 4/7
concave mirror
convex mirror

fri 4/9
exam review

Mon 4/12
exam

Wed 4/14
1) BB Optics curved lenses, with diverging point source place at focal point of lens to produce parallel rays. Telescope.

Fri 4/16
Ripple Tank DSI
Laser DSI

Mon 4/19
Photoelectric effect

Wed 4/21
He, H2, Na emission
Na absorption
Double slit interference

Fri 4/23
Rutherford video. make wmv or mpg.

Mon 4/26
Single photons
electron diffraction

Wed 4/28
adj. single slit
standing waves on a vibrating string, n=1,2,3

Fri 4/30
STM