Physics 103 Spring 2007
Lecture Demonstrations
 

Monday, January 22 (Introduction to the Course) Herndon
Document camera for all lectures

Computer on Internet and display panels (103 Web page)
Wednesday, January 24 (Introduction) Herndon
• Meter stick and length standards
• Masses and balance scale
• Clock
• Metronome

Monday, January 29 (1-D Motion) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Meter stick (reaction time)
• Extra handouts
Wednesday, January 31 (1-D Motion) Herndon
Aluminum inclined plane
• Ball of cotton
• Guinea and feather tube
• Rubber ball
• Meter stick
• Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)

Monday, February 5 (Vectors) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Arrow
• Dropped and fired balls
• Ballistics car
Wednesday, February 7 (Projectile Motion) Herndon
Rubber ball
• Ball on a string
• Bench PC with Physics Demos program and display panels
• Water stream demo with protractor
• Monkey and hunter

Monday, February 12 (Newton's Laws) Herndon
Rubber ball
• 1-kg mass
• Beaker and cloth
• Pail of water
• Ball and cut string
• Air track
• Inertia ball
• Wood block
• Adjustable inclined plane
• Block and String
Wednesday, February 14 (Newton's Laws) Herndon
Rubber ball
• 1-kg mass
• Wood block
• Spring scale with mass
• Slide of coefficients of friction
• Block and string
• Inclined plane with blocks and carts
• Adjustable inclined plane
• Single rope anchored in wall
• Hammer and nail

Monday, February 19 (Energy) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Bowling ball pendulum
• Balls rolling in troughs
• Cart on inclined plane
• Come-back can
• 1-kg mass
• Air track
Wednesday, February 21 (Work and Kinetic Energy) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Cart on inclined plane
• Block and tackle
• Block and string
• Hooke's law
• Springs with different spring constants
• 1-kg mass
• Weight-lifting machine (power demo)

Monday, February 26 (Momentum and collisions) Sprott
Benchtop PC and LCD display
• Rubber ball
• Happy and sad balls
• Air track
• Momentum balls
• Air table
Wednesday, February 28 (Rockets) Sprott
Momentum balls
• Ballistic pendulum
• Water rocket
• CO2 rocket
• Rotating platform with basketball and CO2
• Rocketcycle

Monday, March 5 (Circular Motion) Sprott
Rubber ball
• Ball on a string
• Conical pendulum
• Block on rotating table
Wednesday, March 7 (Rotational Motion and Gravity) Sprott
Ball on string
• Block on rotating table
• Conical pendulum
• Loop-the-loop
• Rolling chain
• Cavendish model
• Globe (10-inch) and bright light source (100 W lamp)
• Tennis ball

Monday, March 12 (Equilibrium) Sprott
Ball on string
• Center-of-gravity boards
• Torque board
• Moving spool
• See-saw
• Horizontal flag pole
• Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
• Ladder against wall
• Deck of cards
Wednesday, March 14 (Angular Momentum) Sprott
Ladder against wall
• Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
• Weight and axle
• Large inclined plane with balls, disks, and hoops
• Yo-yos
• Rotating platform with barbells
• Bicycle wheel
• Rotating masses on pulleys
• Gyroscopes

Monday, March 19 (Solids) Herndon
Weight of air
• Magdeburg hemispheres
• Manometer
• Hydraulic presss
• Young's Modulus
• Shear Modulus
• Pascal's Vases
• Brownian Motion --BB's
Wednesday, March 21 (Fluids) Herndon
Bernoulli demo (pipe with flowing water)
• Bernoulli (levitated) ball
• Airfoils
• Venturi tube
• Aspirator
• Curve Ball
• Frisbee
• Archimedes principle
• Neutral-buoyancy balloon
• Toilet paper roll and air jet
• Torcelli's Theorem 

Monday, March 26 (Thermal Physics) Herndon
Benchtop PC and LCD display
• Examples of thermometers
• Thermal expansion demos
• Bimetallic strips
• PVT surface of ideal gas
• Pistons
Wednesday, March 28 (Thermal Physics) Herndon
Kinetic theory simulator (ball bearings)
• Kinetic theory demonstrator (Mercury tube)
• Variation of sound speed with temperature
• Balloon

Monday, April 9 (Thermal Energy) Herndon
Liquid nitrogen cannon
• Leidenfrost effect
• Collapsing pop can in water tray
• Freezing by evaporation
• Model geyser
• Ethanol vapor explosion
PVT surfaces - ideal gas, H2O, CO2
• Mechanical equivalence of heat
Wednesday, April 11 (Thermal Energy) Herndon
• Heat convection (candle)
• Heat radiation (parabolic mirrors)
• Heat conduction (marbles on heated rod)

Monday, April 16 (Thermodynamics) Herndon
Wood block
• Expanding balloon when heated and cooled with LN2
• Piston with gun cotton
Wednesday, April 18 (Thermodynamics) Herndon
Automobile engine model
• Carnot cycle model
• Sterling engine

Monday, April 23 (Vibrations) Sprott
Projected circular motion
• Multiple coupled pendula
• Wilburforce pendulum
Wednesday, April 25 (Waves) Sprott
Single rope anchored in wall
• Wave speed on a rope (index cards)
• Compressional wave demo (horizontal slinky)
• Torsional waves (2-segment horizontal and vertical)
• Wave speed on a rope

Monday, April 30 (Sound) Sprott
Speed of sound
• Oscilloscope and microphone
• Tuning fork
• Bell in vacuum
• Breathing He and Sulfur Hexafluoride
• Sound level meter 
• Doppler effect (rotating arm, train whistle)
• Casette Player with tapes
Wednesday, May 2 (Sound) Sprott
Flame pipe
• Standing wave on a string with strobe lamp
• Oscilloscope and microphone
• Sine and square waves, noise source (with speaker)
• Musical instruments
• Tuning fork
• Singing rod
• Dog whistle
• Interference of sound
• Open and closed organ pipes
• Beat frequencies• Sound level meter 
• Casette Player with tapes

Monday, May 7 (Review) Sprott
Demos TBD
Wednesday, May 9 (Review) Sprott
Demos TBD
• Teaching evaluations.