Physics 8, Spring 2001

Bob Pelcovits

Date Demos Readings
1/25/01 1. Shive wave machine clamped, No driver;
2. Longitudinal, wave machine, clamped, No driver;
3. BB mass and spring with scale.
1/27/01 1. Two gliders on air track.
1/29/01 1. Coupled pendulums.
1/31/01 1. 3 gliders-No oscillator.
2/5/01 1. Vibrating string and pulley, strobe, UV's;
2. Cups Fourier.
2/7/01 1. Beats;
2. Shive wave machine, end clamp;
3. Turning fork beats with amplifier;
4. Cups Fourier;
5. Beats on oscilloscope.
2/9/01 1. Shive wave machine, clamped, no driver;
2. Tuning Fork beats;
3. O-scope beats with two Function generators;
4. OHD;
5. Laptop and group/phase applet from web page.
2/12/01 1. Interference of sound.
2/14/01 1. Interference of sound.
2/16/01 1. Wave tank, single slit; variable width, double slit, 
     variable spacing;
2. Laser and single slit, variable single slit, double slit, 
    course grating;
3. Laser disk of water waves, start with double slit. 
2/21/01 1. Michaelson Morley;
2. Short video segment form Mechanical Universe on the
    Michelson Morley;
3. Jim Valles to lecture.
2/23/01 1. Video edits from Mech Universe on relativity. 
3/9/01 1. Video segments from Mechanical Universe on 
     Einstein and Lorentz reletivity. 
3/12/01 1. Doppler buzzer.
3/19/01 1. Equivalence princple-2 types;
2. Black globe;
3. Curved space bucket.
3/21/01 1. Photo electric effect stuff.
3/23/01 1. Blackbody stuff from last year;
2. BB box;
3. Wiens law
4. Sun bulb.
4/2/01 1. Na emission and absorption;
2. H2, He emission.
4/4/01 1. Electron diffraction;
2. Single photon interference;
3. Laser double slit interference.
4/23/01 1. Cups QM bounded. 
4/25/01 1. STM;
2. Cups boundld.
4/27/01 1. Cups QM.