| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 7A50.00 | Wave Mechanics | | |
| 7A50.10 | optical barrier penetration | PIRA 500 | |
| 7A50.10 | frustrated total internal reflection | AJP 54(7),601 | A review of the history and theory. Pellin-Broca prisms eliminate reflection losses when measurements are taken. |
| 7A50.10 | frustrated total internal reflection | AJP 33(5),xviii | Squeeze two right angle prisms together with a "c" clamp while directing a beam of light at the interface. |
| 7A50.10 | optical barrier penetration | AJP 43(1),107 | A Laboratory setup of optical barrier penetration. |
| 7A50.10 | barrier penetration | 38-6.7 | Frustrated total internal reflection with light and glass prisms demonstrates barrier penetration. |
| 7A50.11 | almost total reflection | AJP 39(10),1141 | Use a plano-convex lens between the prisms and laser beam illumination. |
| 7A50.12 | frustrated total internal reflection | AJP 52(4),377 | A good note on frustrated total internal reflection and other accompanying physics. |
| 7A50.15 | tunnel effect | 38-6.8 | Rocksalt prisms with gaps of 5 microns and 15 microns show transmission of IR to a thermopile. in one case only. |
| 7A50.20 | microwave barrier penetration | PIRA 500 | |
| 7A50.20 | microwave barrier penetration | AJP 31(10),808 | Two right angle paraffin prisms are used with 3 cm microwaves to demonstrate barrier penetration. |
| 7A50.20 | optical and microwave penetration | AJP 39(1),74 | Two
detectors are used in both optical and microwave barrier penetration to quantitatively
show the reflected and transmitted beams. |
| 7A50.20 | frustrated total internal reflection | 38-6.6 | Demonstrate
frustrated total internal reflection using microwaves and two right angle
paraffin prisms. Pictures, Reference: AJP 31(10),808. |
| 7A50.20 | microwave barrier penetration | Disc 24-22 | Microwaves are totally reflected off a plastic prism until another is touching the first. |
| 7A50.21 | microwave tunnel effect | AJP 33(10),xiii | A waveguide transmission line with three dielectric regions driven at 5 GHz. |
| 7A50.21 | microwave tunnel effect | AJP 34(3),260 | A microwave "potential barrier" of three sections of waveguide - with dielectric, air and again dielectric. |
| 7A50.30 | vibrating soap film | PIRA 1000 | |
| 7A50.30 | vibrating soap film | 38-6.3 | Soap films are vibrated at audio frequencies to produce standing waves which are projected on a screen. |
| 7A50.35 | circular Rubens tube | 38-6.4 | A 4' diameter circular Rubens flame tube demonstrates circular standing waves. Picture. |
| 7A50.40 | vibrating circular wire | PIRA 200 | Excite a circular wire at audio frequencies by an electromagnet drive to produce standing waves. |
| 7A50.40 | vibrating circular wire | 7A50.40 | |
| 7A50.40 | vibrating circular wire | AJP 33(10),xiv | Eigenfrequences of a 2.2" dia. wire circle are obtained by exciting with a 650 ohm relay coil. |
| 7A50.40 | vibrating circular wire | 38-6.5 | A
circular wire is excited at audio frequencies by an electromagnet drive to
produce standing waves. Diagram, Pictures, Reference: AJP 33(10),xiv. |
| 7A50.50 | complementary rule | PIRA 1000 | |
| 7A50.50 | uncertainty principle with E&M | AJP 51(3),239 | Interpret
the inverse relation between the pulse length of a signal on the oscilloscope
and the spectral-energy density on a spectrum analyzer as a demonstration
of the uncertainty principle. |
| 7A50.50 | complementarity rule | AJP 39(3),302 | Circuit
for a generator that produces 1,2,4,8, or 16 pulses in a packet. Decrease
in bandwidth for longer packets is evident when the Fourier power spectrum
is viewed. |
| 7A50.52 | electric analog circuit | AJP 34(12),1122 | A three dimensional electrical network of inductors and capacitors models energy density in three dimensions. |
| 7A50.60 | photon counter - correlator | AJP 50(11),996 | A
low cost time correlator-photon counter enables demonstrations of intensity
correlation function, photon-bunching, coherence time, and related topics. |
| 7A50.80 | Kronig-Penny model analog computer | AJP 41(8),990 | Diagram for an analog computer to simulate the Kronig-Penny model wave functions. |
| 7A50.90 | Mermin's Bell theorem boxes | PIRA 1000 | |
| 7A50.90 | Mermin's Bell theorem boxes | AJP 53(12),1143 | A logic circuit that makes Mermin's gedanken experiment a feasible and instructive lecture demonstration. |
| 7A50.90 | noncommuting operators | AJP 41(3),418 | Use the Abbe theory of image formation in the microscope is used to demonstrate noncommutativity. |