Physics 104 Lecture Demonstrations
Spring 2007
Monday, January 22 (Electric Forces) - Hashimoto
- Pith balls
- Rods and fur
- Plastic rod and stirrup
- 2 1-kg masses and meter stick
Wednesday, January 24 (Electric Fields) - Hashimoto
- Toepler-Holst (or Wimshurst) with irregular conductors
- Conductor with pith balls in and out
- Overhead projector with E and phi pictures
Monday, January 29 (Electric Energy) - Smith
- Hair in E-field on overhead projector
- Van de Graaff generator and stool
- Electroscope
- Rubber ball
Wednesday, January 31 (Capacitance) - Smith
- Sample capacitors
- Exploding wire
- Table of dielectric constants
- Variation of voltage with plate separation
- Jacob's ladder
Monday, February 5 (Current and Resistance) - Smith
- Table of resistivities
- Ohm's law demo
- Light bulb and coil in liquid nitrogen
- Sample resistors
Wednesday, February 7 (Current and Resistance) - Hashimoto
- Ohm's law board
- Sample galvanometers
Monday, February 12 (DC Circuits) - Smith
- Sample batteries
- Ohm's law board (again)
Wednesday, February 14 (DC Circuits) - Smith
- RC circuit with square wave on scope (exponential decay)
Monday, February 19 (Magnetism) - Smith
- Rabbit's fur and plastic rod
- Two bar magnets
- Compass needle
- Field patterns of magnets on overhead projector
- Force on wire carrying a current in magnetic field
- Horseshoe magnet and CRT
Wednesday, February 21 (Magnetism) - Smith
- Sample galvanometers (again)
- Oersted demo (current in wire and compass needle)
- Magnetic field of wires on overhead projector
- Force between parallel currents
- Solenoid
Monday, February 26 (Induced Voltage) - Hashimoto
- Magnet and solenoid with electrometer
- AC and DC generators
- Jumping ring
- Can Crusher
- Induction demo (two solenoids with common iron core)
Wednesday, February 28 (Inductance) - Hashimoto
- Sample inductors
- Transformer
- Eddy currents (with big electromagnet and metal plates)
- Large Tesla coil with Faraday cage
- Levitated ball
- Big electromagnet (to show switch opening arc)
Monday, March 5 (AC Circuits) - Hashimoto
- Light bulb with inductor and movable iron core
- RLC circuit with sine wave on scope (resonance and phase)
- Transformers
Wednesday, March 7 (EM Waves) - Hashimoto
- Chart of EM spectrum
- Hertz experiment
- Small Tesla coil and oscilloscope with antenna
- Old radio set transmitter
- Microwave source with polarizers
- Radiometer
Monday, March 12 (EM Spectrum, Reflection) - Hashimoto
- Chart of EM spectrum
- Table of indices of refraction
- Plane mirrors
- Light guides and fiber optics
- Total internal reflection
Wednesday, March 14 (Refraction) - Hashimoto
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- Candle under water
- Prism rainbow
Monday, March 19 (Mirrors) - Hashimoto
- Plane, concave, and convex mirrors
- Light source and screen
- Optics board
Wednesday, March 21 (Lenses) - Hashimoto
- Light source
- Convex and concave lenses
- Optics board (again)
Monday, March 26 (Interference & Diffraction) - Smith
- Film loop showing water wave interference (Byron 8560)
- Young's double-slit experiment on optical bench
- Soap-film interference
- Newton's rings
- Optical flats with sodium lamp
Wednesday, March 28 (Diffraction & Polarization) - Smith
- Optical bench with laser and apertures and gratings
- Poloroid sheets
Monday, April 9 (Relativity) - Smith
- Clock and meter stick
- 1-kg mass
- Flashlight
Wednesday, April 11 (Relativity) - Smith
Monday, April 16 (Quantum Physics) - Hashimoto
- Blackbody curves on overhead
- Blackbody radiation
- Franck-Hertz experiment
Wednesday, April 18 (Quantum Physics) - Hashimoto
- Photoelectric effect
- Line emission sources and hand-out gratings
Monday, April 23 (Atomic Physics) - Hashimoto
Wednesday, April 25 (Atomic Physics) - Hashimoto
- Laser
- Fluorescence and phosphorescence
Monday, April 30 (Nuclear Properties) - Smith
- Periodic table
- Overhead projector
Wednesday, May 2 (Nuclear Radiation) - Smith
- Peridodic table
- Geiger counter with radioactive sources
Monday, May 7 (Nuclear Energy) - Smith
- Periodic table
- Overhead projector
Wednesday, May 3 (Elementary Particles) - Smith
- Slides of accelerators
- Balloon
- Teaching evaluations