Fall 2005
Jim Valles
the first lecture I will need:
Computer projection to show web page
Meter stick
Metronome
Historic meter stick
Friday 9/9
Soccer ball (or basketball)
Tennis ball
Short Dynamic track and cart to be bounced off the end of the track.
Mon 9/12
galilean incline
strings of beads
tennis ball
bucket to slide across floor with a kick
tennis
www cable
Wed. 9/14
. stopwatch
. Tennis ball
. Simultaneous fall
. penny and feather.
Friday 9/16
. Simultaneous fall
monkey and hunter.
water parabola.
Vertical Billiards.
Monday 9/19
cork and string
turntable and platter
truck and sheet
howitzer
Wed 9/21
Newton's 1st and 2nd laws:
1. Zani mobiles Newton to pull one student, pull two students
2. Inertia ball and string
3. Dynamic track and cart to push,
4. BB mechanics vector components, two scales connected by string, one newton
weight string hook, (try to get a 45 on string)
Friday 9/23
Mass and spring scale to drop for Friday
Fri 9/23
The droppable scale
Dynamic track, cart, pulley, masses.
Rope, zani mobile and 100 N scale
Two zani mobiles and a rope
Acrobatic Astronauts: No initial movement. Play at start of class.
Mon 9/26
Soccer ball
Inclined plane with two masses attached with a string that goes over a pulley
A Zani mobile and rope
wed 9-28
Cinder block, board and scale for force of friction demo (do you know the mass
of the cinderblock? I could use it in lecture)
Puck and the turntable
Ring and ball bearing on the overhead
Block and tackle? (use BB mechanics next year)
Fri Sep. 30
Tennis ball and the earth's gravitational field
Weight and the nail
Bowling Ball Pendulum
Cart and scale for dragging people along
Mon Oct 3
Airtrack with a cart and spring
bowling ball pendulum
A spring and two masses.
Wed. no class
Fri 10/7
bowling ball pendulum and the head cam
3 tracks
Wed 10/12
Loop da Loop
Airtrack and glider with two springs
Board on a rope
Fri 10/14
egg and sheet
Kik Dis pucks
Tennis ball
Monday 10/17
happy and sad balls,
two people carts,
firecracker carts on airtrack
Dynamic cart collisions on dynamic track
Wed 10/19
newton's cradle, meter stick clamped to hold balls back.
t-ball and b-ball
dynamic cart collisions on track
fri 10/21
com Dog Toy
two gliders connected by spring on tilted air track, glider w pendulum
old wrench
bike wheel to rotate through an angle, and colored tape
COM boards to show rotation of an object about a point.
Mon 10/24
1) Whirlygig
2) M. O. I. wands
3) M. O. I. props: sphere, ring, disk
4) Bike Wheel Mounted
Wed 10/26
bicycle to show starting torque on the pedal.
Torque beam with 1 mass on one side and no mass, just the weight of the meter
stick on the other side.
Atwood’s machine
Friday 10/28
(Dave Cutts)
Simple pendulum
MOI race down the incline, hoop, disk, sphere
Whirligig
Wheel to roll across floor as a prop.
Falling cup and ball on hinged stick
Mon
1) Pump top (aka Thomas The Tank Top).
2) motorized gyro
3) Bike Wheel and motor, with stool.
4) Walk the spool.
wed
Hoberman
Stool and weights
Acrobatic Astros
Fri 11/11
precessing wheel
acro astronauts again,
Thomas the top,
center of gravity,
meter stick and my fingers for Friday.
(Last year he did: com tri and cresc
tipping board
meter stick for fingers
balance of forces and torques
torque beam meter stick
people lifter
slipping ladder)
Mon 11/7
slipping ladder,
tipping board with blocks
Fri 11/11
Cinema Classics Cavendish video
Mon 11/14
Kepler video edits
ellipse device
martin orrery w camera earth-mars
Wed 11/16
Horizontal mass on spring on airtrack
Vertical mass on a spring
Tuning fork that I can bang and they can hear.
bouncing super ball, use teather ball
Lacrosse ball.
Fri 11/18
Pendulum and turntable
Torsional oscillator
Hanging Mass on a spring
different Tuning forks, mic, scope
Mon 11/21
Damped tuning fork w wax on oscope.
Driven oscillating glider on the air track.
Break the glass beaker with sound.
Simple Pendulum
Physical pendulum
Torsional oscillator
Mon 11/28
Pressure independent of orientation demo
Oil drum collapse
Pressure depends on depth
Pascals Law demo
Bed o nails.
WED 11/30
Archimedes principle setup that you put out last class
Pascal's Vase demo
His own Toilet device
fri
neckdown
ripple tank
venturi tube
Mon 12/5
no class
12/7 Wed
Baseball bat, center of percussion
Water rocket
Redball express
Collapsable A Frame
Falling disk
Cork on a string swings in a circle
Done!!!!