Rich P.
Wed, September 7
Bucket of water to pour, graduated cylinder, large 3500ml beaker, pan balance
for OHP, 2 density blocks.
Large clock with second hand.
Friday, September 9
·Galilean incline and metronome
·Tennis ball
·long airtrack and glider
·Laptop
Monday, 9/12
1) Feather and farthing
2) Drop String of beads with uniform /non-uniform spacing
3) inclined dynamic track and dynamic cart with extra masses. Add masses to show
that acceleration downhill is independant of mass.
wednesday 9/14
bb vectors
xyx vectors
Fri 9/16
the howitzer on the dynamic
track,
the two ball fall,
the tennis ball,
The water parabola
mon 9/19
Platter and puck
Lanou Device
Monkey and Hunter
Vertical Billiards
Tennis ball
9/21
relativity snipet? if he can get one.
truck and sheet
Friday 9/23
1. airtrack and glider, (newton’s first)
2. inertia ball and one string
3. Dynamic cart and track with pulley and masses
4. Zani carts
5. Airtrack glider with projectile launcher (use gas lighter "ain 'n flame")
6. BB mechanics two Newton scales at 45 like Jim’s.
Monday 9/26
1. Foucault
2. Non-inertial ref frames, (ball goes straight when viewed while stationary,
ball curves when viewed while rotating)
3. black board mechanics from friday
4. Normal Force
5. Static equilibrium on an incline plane.
Wed 9/28
1. inclined dynamic track and cart
2. Burning string (use gas lighter "ain 'n flame")
3. Atwood
4. Normal Force
5. BB mechanics
fri
frictional forces and drag
· 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.
· dry Mop
Mon 10/3
· Ring w cut
· Cork on a string
· Puck on a platter
note: could've pail water and loop the loop.
Wed 10/5
· Loop the Loop
· Bucket of water
· Pile Driver
· Tennis Ball to Toss
· Brick to carry
Friday 10/7
. BB mechanics Pulley #15
. Block and Tackle.
. New ball launcher ramp
. Racing Balls
. Spring loaded Dynamic cart up incline
The spring with force scale will wait until next week (Wed. I guess...).
wed
· Series and parallel springs
· Stiff spring and force scale
airtrack, glider, one spring
Laptop and pointer
fri
exam
mon
Airtrack, glider and two springs
3 rails
tennis ball
Bike generator and light bulbs to show power.
wed
* nose basher
* Potential well track
* Airtrack glider and sliding of mass
fri 10/21
Lead shot and thermometer
Happy and Sad balls
Crooke's Radiometer
two Stirling Engines
mon 10/24
1) air track glider with pendulums
2) inch worm: airtrack with two gliders connected by stiffspring
3) com dog toy
4) com objects
Wed 10/26
1) Walk in a canoe, heavy throw object
2) Track on a track, spring loaded acrt w masses.
Fri 10/28
spring apart two dynamic carts, masses
Impulse water balloons, egg and sheet
(next year: apezon q into can, fire blow gun)
elastic collisions on dynamic track, two carts equal mass, masses
Mon 10/31
1) Dynamic carts for inelastic collisions; masses.
2) Newton's Cradle
3) Basketball and Tennis ball.
4) Airtrack for Firecracker sandwich,
unequal mass gliders, and equal mass gliders.
Wed 11/2
Water Rokit
Red Ball Express
Kik-dis pucks for 2-d collisions
Fri 11/4
no class
Mon 11/7
Colored block to rotate
Rotating Skew rod
Wed 11/9
Rotating Skew rod
parallel axis theorem
sledgehammer
Racing Ball. ring, disk
Moment of inertia bars
Fri 11/11
· Heavy wheel as a pulley, string and
mass hanger with different masses.
· Torque bar.
· Whirlygig
· bike wheel with handles and two marks opposite
Mon 11/14
· bike wheel with handles and two marks opposite
* Walk the spool
* Yoyo
* "Faster than g", falling stick with ball and cup
Wed 11/16
Hoberman
Ice skater
bike wheel precession
Bike wheel and stool
Gyro
Fri 11/18
exam
Mon 11/21
1) Ball balanced on a spherical surface, and inside a sphere to show stability:
Use 1/2 a VdG dome.
2) Tipping block and board
3) Balance bird
4) Curious George
5) Feeble disk
6) Walk the plank
7) Wine Butler
Wed 11/23
Acrobatic Astronauts
Mon 11/28
Slipping Ladder
Stacking boards
Simple Pendulum
Mass and spring
wed 11/30
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 phase differences position and velocity and acceleraion
v. time for an oscillating mass and spring.
Fri 12/2
1. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse Video
2. Break Beaker
3. Damped resonance with wax on a tuning fork, or variac on the blower for the
air track damped oscillating glider
4. One Driven Resonance demo with either the airtrack glider, or the vertical
mass and spring, or the water balloon, also to show phases at resonance.
5. pendulum and rotating table
Mon 12/5
Tacoma Narrows video
Cavendish
(two gravity letures, one today, one Wed)
Wed 12/7
Martin Orrery
BB Ellipse
Fri 12/9
1. Levitating superconductor
2. Crush the 55 gallon drum