Phys 2101

Halliday, Resnick & Walker

Chapter	Lecture Demonstrations
2	Demo Accelerometers Determine "g" with pad timer/drop ball Coin and Feather Tube with Rotating Mount
4	Ballistics cart thru tunnel Simultaneous Fall/Shoot balls Monkey and Hunter Tennis ball on string
5	Accelerometer swung by hand Dynamics Cart w/different masses - spring launcher Force, mass and acceleration One (1) person pushes off a second person Blow up and release balloon Fan cart on dynamics track with/without screen
6	Friction Characteristics: Static vs. Sliding, Area of contact, normal force speed (block w/spring scale) Friction on an inclined surface
7,8	Potential and Kinetic energy with multiple incline track Balistic pendulum/projectile launcher Loop the Loop track
9	Linear Momentum and Collisions Elastic and Inelastic Collision Newton's cradle Several balls colliding on track Elastic and inelastic collisions - Dynamics carts of difference mass collide and spring apart Ballistic pendulum/projectile launcher
9	Determine center of gravity with plumb line on an irregular shape or Map of Louisiana Throw wobbling shape Inertia Compare C of G of meter stick and baseball bat, determine by balancing on finger tips
10	Variable inertia wheels w/changeable masses Ring, disk, and sphere on incline
11	Spinning bicycle wheel gyroscope - shows stability, precession, steering capability Rotating stools with weights Rotating Disk
14	Archimedes' Principle Fluid pressure vs. Depth - perforated cylinder Crush coke can w/air Density Ball in cold/warm water Pascal's Vases Pascal's Law - hydraulic press Magdeberg Plates
15	Simple Harmonic Motion Simple Pendulum Torsion Pendulum Forced Oscillation and Resonance Demonstrator
16, 17	Tuning Forks Standing waves w/string vibrator and function generator Longitudinal waves w/ [1] Spring Wave Demo Doppler w/doppler rocket Coupled Resonators: Coupled tuning forks Sound in a vacuum w/bell in vacuum jar
18	Solid Expansion: Bimetal strip, ball and ring