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Mechanics
Measurement
1A10.00 - Basic Units
1A10.20 - Standards of Mass
1A10.30 - Standard Metric System
1A10.52 - Bean Count Estimation
1A20.00 - Error And Accuracy
1A30.00 - Coordinate Systems
1A30.10 - Blackboard Vectors
1A40.00 - Vectors
1A50.00 - Math Topics
1A60.00 - Scaling
1A70.00 - Uniform Acceleration
Motion In One Dimension
1C10.00 - Velocity
1C10.10 - PASCO Cart on Brown Paper
1C10.20 - PASCO cart with constant velocity and accelerated motion
1C10.21 - Terminal Velocity of a Surface
1C20.00 - Uniform Acceleration
1C20.10 - Feather and Penny
1C20.10 - Feather and Penny with Vacuum
1C20.10 - Paper and Lacrosse Ball
1C20.10 - Styrofoam and Lead Balls
1C20.20 - Can with Nuts
1C20.37 - Bowling Ball on Incline
1C30.00 - Measuring G
1C30.55 - Catch a Ruler
Motion In Two Dimensions
1D40.00 - Motion Of The Center Of Mass
1D40.10 - Center of Mass: Beach Ball
1D40.10 - Center of Mass: Couple System
1D40.10 - Center of Mass of an Odd Shape
1D40.10 - Center of Mass of Thrown Objects
1D40.10 - Center of Mass: New Jersey
1D40.10 - Center of Mass: Tennis Ball
1D40.10 - Motion of Center of Mass
1D40.14 - 2 Ball System
1D40.56 - Center of Mass in an Explosion
1D40.71 - Rolling Uphill
1D60.00 - Projectile Motion
1D60.10 - Uphill Incline Howitzer Cart
1D60.10 - Downhill Incline Howitzer Cart
1D60.10 - Accelerated Howitzer Cart
1D60.10 - Constant Velocity Howitzer Cart
1D60.20 - Double Cube Drop
1D60.30 - Monkey and Hunter
1D60.30 - Pasco Monkey and Hunter
1D60.40 - Projectile Across the Room
1D50.00 - Central Forces
1D50.10 - Pumpkin on a String
1D50.20 - Whirligig
1D50.40 - Bucket of Water
1D50.40 - Greek Waiter's Tray
1D50.70 - Spinning Chain
1D55.00 - Centrifugal Escape
1D55.10 - Cut Ring and Ball
1D55.31 - Forces on Uniform Circular Motion with Lazy Susan and Flags
1D52.00 - Deformation Of Central Forces
1D52.10 - Flattening Earth
1D15.00 - Velocity, Position, And Acceleration
1D15.50 - Brachistochrone/Tautochrone
1D10.00 - Displacement In Two Dimensions
Relative Motion
1E20.00 - Rotating Reference Frames
1E20.10 - Focaults Pendulum
1E30.00 - Coriolis Effect
1E30.30 - Coriolis Force (Part 1)
1E30.30 - Coriolis Effect (Part 2)
1E10.00 - Moving Reference Frames
Newton's First Law
1F20.00 - Inertia Of Rest
1F20.00 - Newton's 1st Law - The Law of Inertia
1F20.10 - Inertia Balls
1F20.11 - Bowling Ball on String
1F20.14 - Toilet Paper
1F20.20 - Smash Your Hand
1F20.30 - Tablecloth and Dishes
1F30.00 - Inertia Of Motion
1F30.10 - Persistence of Motion (Air Track and Glider)
1F30.11 - Kick dis Puck
1F30.50 - Pencil gun and Plywood
1F10.00 - Measuring Inertia
Newton's Second Law
1G10.00 - Force, Mass, And Acceleration
1G10.00 - Ping Pong Cannon
1G10.45 - Atwood Machine
1G10.53 - Sponge Wood and Lead Bricks
1G20.00 - Accelerated Reference Frames
1G20.10 - Candle in a Bottle
1G20.75 - Balloon / Apple Cart (Accelerometer)
1G30.00 - Complex Systems
Newton's Third Law
1H10.00 - Action And Reaction
1H10.20 - Fan Cart with Sail
1H10.25 - Fire Extinguisher Cart
1H10.25 - Helicopter Rotor
1H10.40 - Roller Skate Rocket
1H11.00 - Recoil
1H11.30 - Liquid Nitrogen Cannon
1H11.35 - Ping Pong Ball Explosion
Statics Of Rigid Bodies
1J40.00 - Static Torque
1J40. - Ladder model
1J40.10 - Torque Stick
1J40.10 - Metal Torque Handle Demo
1J40.10 - Wooden Torque Handle With Weight
1J40.20 - Lifted By Torque
1J40.20 - Torque Beam
1J40.20 - Meter Stick Balance
1J40.30 - Rolling With Torque
1J40.30 - Door Model
1J11.00 - Exceeding Center Of Gravity
1J11.10 - Leaning Tower of Pisa
1J11.20 - Tower of Lire
1J10.00 - Finding Center Of Gravity
1J10.09 - Blocks On Threaded Rod
1J10.12 - Irregular Object Center of Mass
1J10.25 - Center of Gravity of a Broom
1J20.00 - Stable, Unstable And Neutral Equilibrium
1J20.00 - Equilibrium
1J20.60 - Wine Butler
1J20.70 - Double Cone/Rolling Uphill
1J30.00 - Resolution Of Forces
1J30.10 - Newton's Balance
1J30.25 - Linear Forces on a Rope
1J30.50 - Force Triangles
Applications Of Newton's Laws
1K30.00 - Pressure
1K30.10 - Bed of Nails
1K20.00 - Friction
1K20.10 - Friction block down incline
1K20.11 - Friction Car Battle
1K20.12 - Static vs Kinetic Friction
1K20.20 - Area Dependence of Friction
1K20.30 - Rolling vs Sliding
1K20.38 - Tribometer
1K10.00 - Dynamic Torque
1K10.26 - Ladder Against Wall
Gravity
1L10.00 - Universal Gravitational Constant
1L10.20 - Cavendish Balance Model
1L20.00 - Orbits
1L20.10 - Bending Spacetime
Work And Energy
1M40.00 - Conservation Of Energy
1M40.10 - Potential vs Kinetic Energy
1M40.15 - Stopped Pendulum
1M40.20 - Loop the loop
1M40.33 - Energy Ball Track
1M40.41 - Ballistic Pendulum
1M40.64 - Dart Gun
1M20.00 - Simple Machines
1M20.10 - Pulley System
1M10.00 - Work
1M10.10 - Work on a Box
1M10.20 - Work On a Soda Can
1M30.00 - Non Conservational Forces
1M30.10 - Momentum collision Track
1M50.00 - Mechanical Power
Linear Momentum And Collisions
1N22.00 - Rockets
1N22.10 - Fire Extinguisher Cart
1N22.20 - Water Rocket
1N22.35 - Bottle Rocket
1N30.00 - Collisions In One Dimensions
1N30. -
1N30.10 - Newton's Cradle
1N30.50 - Impulse Balls
1N30.60 - Basketball, Tennis Ball (Double Ball Bounce)
1N40.00 - Impulse And Thrust
1N40. -
1N40.24 - 2-D Air Puck Collisions
1N10.00 - Impulse And Thrust
1N10.70 - Model Rocket Impulse
1N20.00 - Conservation Of Linear Momentum
1N21.00 - Mass And Momentum Transfer
Rotational Dynamics
1Q40.00 - Conservation Of Angular Momentum
1Q40.10 - Angular Momentum - Stool and Weights
1Q40.17 - Basketball on Rope
1Q40.22 - Hobermann's Sphere
1Q40.30 - Bike Wheel
1Q40.70 - Marbles and Funnel
1Q40.80 - Hero's Engine
1Q50.00 - Gyros
1Q50.20 - Gyroscope Bike Wheel Percession
1Q50.23 - Bike Wheel Percession
1Q50.23 - Hanging Bike Wheel Percession
1Q50.35 - Gyroscope in Gimbal
1Q50.45 - Air Bearing Gyro
1Q50.80 - Gyro Pendulum
1Q20.00 - Rotational Energy
1Q20.10 - Constant Acceleration of a Flywheel
1Q20.30 - Rolling Spool
1Q20.50 - Falling Chimney
1Q60.00 - Rotational Stability
1Q60.25 - Euler's Disk
1Q10.00 - Moment Of Inertia
1Q10.10 - Inertia Wands
1Q10.30 - Moment of Inertia (Shapes Down Incline)
1Q30.00 - Transfer Of Angular Momentum
Properties Of Matter
1R10.00 - Hooke's Law
1R20.00 - Tensile And Compressive Stress
1R50.00 - Crystal Structure
1R40.00 - Coefficient Of Restitution
1R40.30 - Dead and Alive Balls
1R30.00 - Shear Stress
1R30.10 - Friction Phone Book
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Fluid Mechanics
Surface Tension
2A10.00 - Surface Tension
2A10.30 - Surface Tension
2A20.00 - Capillary Tubes
2A20.10 - Capillary Action
2A15.00 - Minimal Surface
2A15.10 - Ring and Thread
2A30.00 - Surface Tension Propulsion
Statics Of Fluids
2B35.00 - Measuring Pressure
2B35.10 - Mercury Barometer
2B35.15 - Barometer in Vacuum
2B40.00 - Density And Buoyancy
2B40.11 - Weight in Water
2B40.11 - Why Ships Float
2B40.15 - Fingering out Buoyancy
2B40.20 - Archimedes Principle
2B40.29 - Rock in Boat - Buoyancy puzzle s
2B40.30 - Cartesian Diver
2B40.57 - Sinking and Floating Cans
2B40.59 - Sinking and Floating Objects
2B40.61 - Why Objects Sink and Float
2B40.85 - Different Sized Density Balls
2B20.00 - Static Pressure
2B20. -
2B20.40 - Pascal's Vase
2B20.53 - Squeeze Flask
2B20.60 - Hydraulic Press
2B30.00 - Atmospheric Pressure
2B30.10 - Crush Can With Heat
2B30.20 - Crush Drum
2B30.30 - Magdeburg Hemispheres
2B30.45 - Inverted Glass
2B30.50 - Lifting Rubber Sheet
2B30.70 - Ping Pong Cannon
2B30.70 - Ping Pong Cannon (slo mo)
2B60.00 - Siphons, Fountains, Pumps
2B60.20 - Siphons
Dynamics Of Fluids
2C60.00 - Non Newtonian Fluids
2C40.00 - Dynamics Of Fluids
2C40.10 - Streamline Flow
2C20.00 - Forces In Moving Fluids
2C20.07 - Bernoulli Tubes
2C20.27 - Venturi Tubes
2C20.30 - Floating Balls
2C20.31 - Sinking and Floating Objects
2C20.35 - Ball in Funnel
2C20.45 - Blowing Air Between Bulbs
2C20.65 - Curved Balls
2C20.72 - Bernoulli Cups
2C10.00 - Flow Rate
2C10.10 - Velocity of Efflux
2C30.00 - Viscosity
2C30.30 - Floating Balls
2C30.50 - Terminal Velocity in Fluids
2C30.65 - Terminal Velocity Coffee Filters
2C50.00 - Vortices
2C50.20 - Smoke Ring Cannon
2C50.30 - 3 Litre Assembled Tornado Tube
Oscillations And Waves
Oscillations
3A10.00 - Pendula
3A40.00 - Simple Harmonic Motion
3A40.00 - Simple Harmonic Motion
3A75.00 - Normal Modes
3A80.00 - Lissajous Figures
3A20.00 - Springs & Oscillators
3A20.50 - Oscillating Chain
3A60.00 - Driven Mechanical Resonance
3A60.00 - Resonance of a Mechanical System
3A60.43 - Driven Spring Weight
3A60.56 - Galvanometer with Coil
3A70.00 - Coupled Oscillations
3A70.10 - Wilberfoce Pendulum
3A70.27 - Spring Coupled Pendula
3A15.00 - Physical Pendula
3A15.50 - Aluminum Baseball Bat Sweet Spot
3A50.00 - Damped Oscillators
3A50.00 - Damped Oscillators
3A50.40 - Constructive and Destructive Interference
3A50.60 - Miscellaneous Tuning Forks and Hammer
3A95.00 - Non-linear Systems
3A95.50 - Chaos Pendulums
Wave Motion
3B27.00 - Compound Waves
3B30.00 - Wave Properties Of Sound
3B30.30 - Bell in a Vacuum
3B33.00 - Phase And Group Velocity
3B35.00 - Reflection And Refraction
3B39.00 - Transfer Of Energy In Waves
3B45.00 - Shock Waves
3B60.00 - Beats
3B60. -
3B60.10/20 - Beats
3B70.00 - Coupled Resonators
3B10.00 - Transverse Pulses And Waves
3B10. -
3B10.10 - Pulse on a Rope
3B10.20 - Longitudinal Wave with Slinky
3B10.20 - Transverse Wave with Slinky
3B22.00 - Standing Waves
3B22.10 - Standing Wave with Rope Across the Room
3B22.14 - Wire Standing Waves
3B22.35 - Longitudinal Wave Box
3B22.35 - Transverse Wave Box
3B50.00 - Interference And Diffraction
3B50.40 - Moiré Patterns
3B25.00 - Impedance And Waves
3B20.00 - Longitudinal Pulses And Waves
3B40.00 - Doppler Effect
3B40. -
3B40.10 - Doppler Ball
3B40.10 - Doppler Buzzer
3B40.20 - Doppler Effect
3B55.00 - Interference And Diffraction Of Sound
3B55.10 - Two Speaker Interference
Acoustics
3C10.00 - The Ear
3C40.00 - Architectural Acoustics
3C55.00 - Music Perception And The Voice
3C30.00 - Intensity And Attenuation
3C30.21 - Decibel-o-meter
3C20.00 - Pitch
3C20.30 - Seebeck's Siren
3C50.00 - Wave Analysis And Synthesis
3C50.10 - Pasco Fourier synthesizer
Instruments
3D20.00 - Resonance In Strings
3D22.00 - Stringed Instruments
3D46.00 - Tuning Forks
3D50.00 - Electronic Instruments
3D40.00 - Resonance In Plates, Bars, Solids
3D40.00 - Simple Harmonic Motion
3D40.10 - Xylophone Bars
3D40.20 - Singing Rod
3D40.50 - Resonance of a Wine Glass
3D40.51 - Resonance Chinese Bowl
3D40.55 - Breaking Glass with Sound
3D30.00 - Resonance Cavities
3D30.40 - Helmholtz Resonator
3D30.50 - Ruben's/Flame Tube
3D30.60 - Kundt's Tube
3D30.70 - Hoot Tube
3D32.00 - Air Column Instruments
3D32.15 - Slide Whistle
3D32.30 - Whistles
Sound Reproduction
3E10.00 - Audio Systems
3E20.00 - Loudspeakers
3E30 .00 - Microphones
3E40.00 - Amplifiers
3E60.00 - Recorders
3E80.00 - Digital System
Thermodynamics
Thermal Properties Of Matter
4A20.00 - Liquid Expansion
4A50.00 - Liquid Helium
4A30.00 - Solid Expansion
4A30.10 - Bimetallic Strip
4A30.15 - Coil Wire Thermostat
4A30.20 - Ball And Ring
4A30.20 - Small Ball and Ring
4A30.21 - Heat Expansion
4A30.55 - Expansion Rod
4A40.00 - Properties Of Materials At Low Temperature
4A40.10 - Lead Bell
4A40.10 - Specific Heat/Lead Ball, Solder Spring
4A10.00 - Thermometry
4A10. -
4A10.10 - Measuring Temperature
4A10.30 - Thermocouple
Heat And The First Law
4B10.00 - Heat Capacity And Specific Heat
4B30.00 - Conduction
4B30.10 - Boil Water By Cooling
4B30.10 - Crush Can With Heat
4B30.12 - Thermal Conductivity
4B20.00 - Convection
4B20.10 - Convection in Gases
4B20.20 - 2 Chimney Convection Box
4B20.21 - Convection with Stainless Steel Tube
4B40.00 - Radiation
4B40.10 - Light The Match
4B40.40 - Two can Radiation
4B60.00 - Mechanical Equivalent Of Heat
4B60.10 - Thermal Increase Through Impact (Hammer on Wood)
4B60.70 - Cork Popper
4B60.75 - Thermal Increase Due to Friction
4B70.00 - Adiabatic Processes
4B70.10 - Fire Syringe
4B70.25 - Adiabatic Cooling
4B70.30 - Adiabatic Heating
4B50.00 - Heat Transfer Applications
4B50.20 - Boil Water in Paper Cup
4B50.60 - Greenhouse Effect Part 1
4B50.60 - Greenhouse Effect Part 2
Change Of State
4C10.00 - PVT Surfaces
4C32.00 - Dew Point And Humidity
4C40.00 - Sublimation
4C40.10 - Boil Water in a Vaccum
4C45.00 - Phase Changes: Solid-Solid
4C50.00 - Critical Point
4C30.00 - Phase Changes Liquid-Gas
4C30.10 - Boiling by Cooling
4C30.15 - Water in Bell Jar
4C30.26 - Ln2 Cannon
4C30.28 - Ping Pong Ball Explosion
4C20.00 - Phase Changes Liquid-Solid
4C20. -
4C20.20 - Ice Bomb
4C31.00 - Cooling By Evaporation
4C31.30 - Drinking Bird
4C33.00 - Vapor Pressure
4C33.50 - Pulse Glass
Kinetic Theory
4D10.00 - Brownian Motion
4D30.00 - Kinetic Motion
4D30.10 - Kinetic Theory
4D40.00 - Molecular Dimensions
4D50.00 - Diffusion & Osmosis
4D20.00 - Mean Free Path
4D20.10 - Radiometer
Gas Laws
4E30.00 - Constant Volume
4E20.00 - Constant Temperature
4E20.15 - Boyle's and Charles' Law
4E20.40 - Balloon In Bell Jar
4E10.00 - Constant Pressure
4E10.20 - Thermal Pressure with Helium Balloon
4E10.20 - He Balloon in LN2
Entropy And The Second Law
4F30.00 - Heat Cycles
4F30.10 - Sterling Engines
4F30.97 - Carnot Model
4F10.00 - Entropy
4F10. -
4F10.10 - Unmixing
4F10.25 - Entropy Discussion
Electricity And Magnetism
Electrostatics
5A20.00 - Coulomb's Law
5A22.00 - Electrostatic Meters
5A30.00 - Conductors And Insulators
5A10.00 - Producing Static Charge
5A10.10 - Interaction of Two Charges
5A10.10 - Negatively Charged Rod and Grounded Metal Rod
5A10.10 - Negatively Charged Rod and Grounded Wooden Rod
5A10.10 - Substantial Forces of Electrostatic Charge (Large 2x4 Wood)
5A40.00 - Induced Charge
5A40.30 - Substantial Forces of Electrostatic Charge (Large 2x4 Wood)
5A50.00 - Electrostatic Machines
5A50.30 - Van De Graaff and Hair
5A50.30 - Van De Graaff and Pie Plates
5A50.30 - Van De Graaff and Vermiculite
5A50.30 - Van De Graaff Charge
Electric Fields And Potential
5B10.00 - Electric Field
5B30.00 - Electrostatic Potential
5B30.21 - Electric Potential Model
5B20.00 - Gauss' Law
5B20.30 - Human Faraday Cage
5B20.35 - Radio and Faraday Cage
Capacitance
5C20.00 - Dielectric
5C10.00 - Capacitors
5C10.50 - Electrostatic Energy Between Capacitor Plates
5C30.00 - Energy Stored In A Capacitor
5C30.00 - Mechanical vs Electrical Energy in a Capacitor
5C30.20 - Energy Released from a Capacitor
5C30.38 - Hand Crack Generator and Capacitor
Resistance
5D40.00 - Conduction In Gases
5D10.00 - Resistance Characteristicss
5D10.11 - Alpha, Beta, Gamma Radiation
5D10.40 - Resistor Model
5D10.60 - Burn a Resistor
5D30.00 - Conduction In Solutions
5D30.10 - Current in Water
5D30.30 - Pickle Light
5D20.00 - Resistivity And Temperature
5D20.12 - Resistance vs Temperature
Electromotive Force And Current
5E20.00 - Electrolysis
5E30.00 - Plating
5E50.00 - Thermoelectricity
5E60.00 - Piezoelectricity
5E40.00 - Cells And Batteries
5E40.18 - Battery Model
5E40.25 - Lemon Battery
DC Circuits
5F10.00 - Ohm's Law
5F10.10 - Series vs Parallel (DC Circuit)
5F15.00 - Power And Energy
5F40.00 - Instruments
5F20.00 - Circuit Analysis
5F20.65 - Capacitance - Series vs Parallel
5F30.00 - RC Circuits
5F30.15 - Time constant of an RC Circuit
Magnetic Materials
5G10.00 - Magnets
5G30.00 - Paramagnetism And Diamagnetism
5G30.20 - Paramagnetism of Liquid Oxygen
5G30.25 - Paramagnetism of CuSO4 and Bi
5G40.00 - Hysteresis
5G45.00 - Magnetostriction And Magnetoresistance
5G20.00 - Magnet Domains & Magnetization
5G20.70 - Electromagnet
5G50.00 - Temperature And Magnetism
5G50.14 - Curie Temperature with Metal
5G50.50 - Superconductivity
Magnetic Fields And Forces
5H10.00 - Magnetic Fields
5H20.00 - Forces On Magnets
5H30.00 - Forces On Moving Charges
5H30.10 - CRT and Magnet
5H30.25 - Aurora and Van Allen Belts
5H40.00 - Force On Current In Wires
5H40.10 - Large Power Bank : Parallel Wire (Attraction)
5H40.10 - Large Power Bank : Parallel Wire (Repulsion)
5H40.11 - Large Power Bank Poles
5H40.30 - Jumping Wire
5H40.30 - Magnetic Field Around Horseshoe Magnet
5H40.39 - Ampere's Motor
5H25.00 - Magnet/Electromagnet Interactions
5H25.10 - Magnetic Field Around Loop
5H15.00 - Fields And Currents
5H15.10 - Magnetic Field Around Simple Magnet
5H15.10 - Magnetic Field Around Single Wire
5H15.40 - Magnetic Field Around Solenoid
5H15.50 - Magnetic Field Around Toroid
5H50.00 - Torques On Coils
5H50.20 - Torque Current (Display)
5H50.20 - Torque Current Model (with arrow)
5H50.20 - Torque Current Model (without arrow)
Inductance
5J10.00 - Self Inductance
5J10.20 - Back EMF
5J30.00 - RLC Circuits - DC
5J30.10 - Energy Exchange in an LRC Circuit
5J30.11 - Critical/Over/Under Dampening of an LRC Circuit
5J20.00 - LR Circuits
5J20.20 - Energy of an Inductor
5J20.20 - Series vs Parallel (AC Circuit)
5J20.20 - Series vs Parallel (AC Circuit) - Different Bulbs
5J20.20 - Series vs Parallel (DC Circuit)
5J20.26 - LR Decay
Electromagnetic Induction
5K10.00 - Induced Currents And Forces
5K10. -
5K10.20 - Galvanometer with Coil and Power Supply
5K10.21 - Relativity w/ Magnet and Coil
5K10.30 - Mutual Induction
5K10.30 - Mutual Induction with Oscilloscope
5K20.00 - Eddy Currents
5K20.12 - Eddy Current Disks Down Incline
5K20.24 - Large Copper Penny
5K20.25 - Copper Ramp and Magnet
5K20.25 - Magnet and Copper Tube
5K20.30 - Ring Flinger
5K20.34 - Eddy current - Floating Coil
5K20.40 - Eddy Current Pendulum
5K20.40 - Eddy Current in Rotating Disc
5K20.65 - Can Crusher
5K40.00 - Motors And Generators
5K40.80 - Hand Crank Generator and Capacitor
5K30.00 - Transformers
5K30.30 - Ring Flinger Transformer
AC Circuits
5L10.00 - Impedance
5L30.00 - Filters And Rectifiers
5L30.30 - Whirligig
5L20.00 - LRC Circuits - AC
5L20.10 - LRC Circuit
Semiconductors And Tubes
5M10.00 - Semiconductors
5M20.00 - Tubes
Electromagnetic Radiation
5N10.00 - Transmission Lines And Antennas
5N10.57 - Microwave with Marshmallows
5N10.60 - E vs B Waves Device
5N10.80 - E vs B Waves Model
5N20.00 - Tesla Coil
5N20.30 - Small Tesla Coil with Light Bulbs
5N30.00 - Electromagnetic Spectrum
5N30.10 - Looking at the Sky w/ the Whole Spectrum
5N30.10 - Rainbow from a Prism
5N30.45 - FLIR Camera Part 1
5N30.45 - FLIR Camera Part 2
Optics
Geometrical Optics
6A01.00 - Speed Of Light
6A01.39 - Microwave with Marshmallows
6A02.00 - Straight Line Propagation
6A42.00 - Refraction At Flat Surfaces
6A46.00 - Rainbow
6A60.00 - Thin Lens
6A60.35 - Image of a Lens
6A61.00 - Pinhole
6A65.00 - Thick Lens
6A70.00 - Optical Instruments
6A70.10 - Telescope
6A20.00 - Reflection From Curved Surfaces
6A20.10 - Blackboard Optics
6A20.35 - Mirage Image
6A20.37 - Images from a Concave Mirror
6A20.45 - Large Convex and Concave Mirrors
6A44.00 - Total Internal Reflection
6A44. -
6A44.40 - Fiber Optics Light Pipes
6A44.68 - Total Internal Reflection
6A40.00 - Refractive Index
6A40.30 - Snell's Law: Index of Refraction
6A10.00 - Reflection From Flat Surfaces
6A10. -
6A10.10 - Blackboard Optics
6A10.30 - Corner Cube
6A10.50 - Large Flat mirror
6A10.60 - Virtual Image
Photometry
6B10.00 - Luminosity
6B30.00 - Radiation Pressure
6B40.00 - Blackbodies
6B40.10 - Temperature of Single Filament Bulb
6B40.20 - Blackbody Radiation - What's the Darkest Color?
6B40.55 - Blackbody Radiation - Color vs Temperature
6B40.65 - Temperature Current of Light Bulb
Diffraction
6C20.00 - Diffraction Around Objects
6C20.45 - Fresnel Lens with Microwave
6C10.00 - Diffraction Through One Slit
6C10. -
6C10.15 - Single Slit Diffraction - Adjustable Slit
Interference
6D15.00 - Interference Of Polarized Light
6D30.00 - Thin Films
6D30.10 - Newton's Rings
6D30.20 - Soap Film Interference
6D40.00 - Interferometers
6D40.10 - Michelson-Morley Experiment
6D20.00 - Gratings
6D20.20 - Diffraction Gratings w/ Laser Gun
6D10.00 - Interference From 2 Sources
6D10. -
6D10.10 - Double Slit Experiment
6D10.10 - Double Slit Experiment with Cornell Lenses
6D10.20 - Microwave Interference w/ Double Slit
Color
6F10.00 - Synthesis And Analysis Of Color
6F30.00 - Dispersion
6F40.00 - Scattering
6F40.10 - Why is the Sky Blue?
Polarization
6H20.00 - Polarization By Reflection
6H30.00 - Circular Polarization
6H35.00 - Birefringence
6H50.00 - Polarization By Scattering
6H10.00 - Dichroic Polarization
6H10.20 - Polarization w/ Microwaves
The Eye
6J10.00 - The Eye
6J11.00 - Physiology
Modern Optics
6Q10.00 - Holography
6Q10.10 - Phase Hologram
6Q20.00 - Physical Optics
6Q20.10 - Greenhouse Effect Part 1
6Q20.10 - Greenhouse Effect Part 2
Modern
Quantum Effects
7A15.00 - Millikan Oil Drop
7A20.00 - Compton Effect
7A50.00 - Wave Mechanics
7A55.00 - Particle/Wave Duality
7A60.00 - X-ray And Electron Diffraction
7A70.00 - Condensed Matter
7A10.00 - Photoelectric Effect
7A10.10 - Photoelectric Effect
Atomic Physics
7B11.00 - Absorption
7B20.00 - Fine Splitting
7B30.00 - Ionization Potential
7B35.00 - Electron Properties
7B50.00 - Atomic Models
7B10.00 - Spectra
7B10.10 - Diffraction and Atomic Spectra
7B10.10 - Changing Spectrum of a Single Filament Bulb (with narration)
7B10.10 - Changing Spectrum of a Single Filament Bulb (no narration)
7B13.00 - Resonance Radiation
7B13.50 - Phosphorescent Sheet
Nuclear Physics
7D20.00 - Nuclear Reactions
7D40.00 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
7D50.00 - Models Of The Nucleus
7D30.00 - Particle Detectors
7D30.60 - Cosmic Ray Chamber
7D30.72 - Particle Collider Model
7D10.00 - Radioactivity
7D10.00 - Alpha, Beta, Gamma Sources
7D10.10 - Radiation Detective
7D10.20 - Half Life with Computer
7D10.20 - Half Life with Dice
Relativity
7F20.00 - General Relativity
7F10.00 - Special Relativity
7F10.00 - Relative Motion of an Individual's Speed on Earth
7F10.35 - Relativity w/ Magnet and Coil
7F10.35 - Galvanometer with Coil
Lasers
7G10.00 - Laser Theory
7G20.00 - Laser Polarization And Intensity Fluctuations - Modes
7G30.00 - Wavelengths Of HeNe & Other Gas Lasers
7G40.00 - Laser Demonstrations
7G50.00 - Laser Construction
7G60.00 - Laser Safety
Astronomy
Planetary Astronomy
8A10.00 - Solar System Mechanics
8A10. -
8A10.05 - Formation of the Solar System through Angular Momentum
8A10.15 - Model of the Solar System
8A10.55 - Blackboard Optics
8A10.65 - Pulsar
8A70.00 - Planetary Properties - 4: Planetary Characteristics
8A70.25 - Why is the Sky Blue
8A70.40 - Greenhouse Effect Part 1
8A70.40 - Greenhouse Effect Part 2
8A70.40 - Greenhouse Effect Part 3
8A70.65 - Aurora and Van Allen Belts
8A70.81 - Cooling of a Hot Planet
8A05.00 - Historical Astronomy
8A05.40 - Kepler's First Law
8A05.40 - Kepler's Second Law
8A05.40 - Kepler's Third Law
8A20.00 - Earth - Moon Mechanics
8A20.05 - Temperature with Heat Lamps and Temp Probes (Part 1)
8A20.05 - Temperature with Heat Lamps and Temp Probes (Part 2)
8A20.05 - Seasons with Sun - Globe
8A20.10 - Spectra of changing single filament bulb (with narration)
8A20.11 - Spectra of changing single filament bulb (no narration)
8A20.15 - Phases of the Moon
8A20.30 - Eclipses
8A20.50 - Moon and Earth to Scale
8A30.00 - Views From Earth - 1
8A30. -
8A30.15 - Relative Motion of An Individual's Speed On Earth
8A30.40 - Greenhouse Effect Part 1
8A30.70 - Parallax
8A35.00 - Views From Earth - 2
8A35. -
8A40.00 - Planetary Properties - 1: Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps
8A50.00 - Planetary Properties - 2: The Planets
8A60.00 - Planetary Properties - 3: Planetoids, Minor Objects
8A80.00 - Planetary Properties - 5: Comets And Search For Life
Stellar Astronomy
8B30.00 - Stellar Evolution
8B30.51 - Crush Drum
8B30.52 - Thermal Pressure With Helium Balloon
8B50.00 - Stellar Miscellaneous
8B40.00 - Black Holes
8B40.30 - Bending Spacetime
8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Circular, Elliptical, and Escape Velocity
8B40.40 - Gravity Well
8B20.00 - Stellar Spectra
8B20.15 - Looking at the Sky with the Whole Spectra
8B20.20 - Doppler Effect in a Binary Star System
8B20.50 - Gravitational Waves
8B10.00 - Solar System Mechanics
8B10.40 - Convection
8B10.50 - Sun Spot
8B10.66 - Pulsar Simulation
Cosmology
8C10.00 - Cosmology
8C10.10 - Expansion of the Universe in 1D
8C10.20 - Cosmic Background Radiation
8C10.35 - Expansion of the Universe in 2D
8C10.45 - Hoberman Sphere
8C20.00 - Gravitational Effects
8C20.20 - Doppler Effect in Binary Star System
8C20.40 - Gravitational Lenses
8C20.50 - Gravitational Waves
Miscellaneous
8D10.00 - Miscellaneous Astronomy
8D20.00 - Telescopes
8D30.00 - Astronomical Instruments
Astronomy Teaching Techniques
8E30.00 - Techniques And Projects
Equipment
Support Systems/facility
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Electronic
No demos found in this category
Mechanical
9C20.00 - Pumps
9C20.10 - Vacuum Pump
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