Physics 103 Lecture Demonstrations

- mockup for Fall 2012 Smith/Gilbert

Wesley, I put this list together for Fall 2012 in order to help Pupa. When you have the time, feel free to make edits. It is based off of your 2007 list. I will be adding links to the demo pages over time. I hope they are correctly ordered and the demos wanted for that topic. Oh! Delete this message when you have read it, Thanks!  -Steve
Week 1

Lecture 1: Wednesday, September 5 - Gilbert

Topic: (Introduction - Basic Units)

Demos:

  1. Meter Stick, 1A.EQxx
  2. Standards Meter, 1A10.30
  3. Standards Masses, 1A10.20  
  4. Balance Scale,  1A.EQxx
  5. Stop Clock, 1A10.40a or a Clock
  6. Metronome, 1A10.40

Optional Demos:

  1. Computer on Internet to display phys103 homepage
  2. Powers of 10 Film, 1A60.10 or Scale of the Universe, 1A60.11

Week 2

Lecture 2: Monday, September 10 - Smith

Topic: (1-D Motion)

Demos:

  1. Rubber Ball or Basketball - (Commonly used as an analogy demo)
  2. Reaction Time, 1A20.60c - (Meter Stick or Dollar Bill)

Optional Demos:

Lecture 3: Wednesday, September 12 - Smith

Topic:  (1-D Motion)

Demos:

  1. Aluminum inclined plane
  2. Ball of cotton
  3. Guinea and feather tube
  4. Rubber ball
  5. Meter stick
  6. Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)

Optional Demos:

Week 3

Lecture 4: Monday, September 17 - Gilbert

Topic: (Vectors)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. Arrow
  3. Dropped and fired balls
  4. Ballistics car

Optional Demos:

Lecture 5: Wednesday, September 19 - Gilbert

Topic: (Projectile Motion)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. Ball on a string
  3. Bench PC with Physics Demos program and display panels
  4. Water stream demo with protractor
  5. Monkey and hunter

Optional Demos:

Week 4

Lecture 6: Monday, September 24 - Gilbert

Topic: (Newton's Laws)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. 1-kg mass
  3. Beaker and cloth
  4. Pail of water
  5. Ball and cut string
  6. Air track
  7. Inertia ball
  8. Wood block
  9. Adjustable inclined plane
  10. Block and String

Optional Demos:

Lecture 7: Wednesday, September 26 - Gilbert

Topic: (Newton's Laws)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. 1-kg mass
  3. Wood block
  4. Spring scale with mass
  5. Slide of coefficients of friction
  6. Block and string
  7. Inclined plane with blocks and carts
  8. Adjustable inclined plane
  9. Single rope anchored in wall
  10. Hammer and nail

Optional Demos:

Week 5

Lecture 8: Monday, October 1 - Smith

Topic: (Energy)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. Bowling ball pendulum
  3. Balls rolling in troughs
  4. Cart on inclined plane
  5. Come-back can
  6. 1-kg mass
  7. Air track

Optional Demos:

Lecture 9: Wednesday, October 3 - Smith

Topic: (Work and Kinetic Energy)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. Cart on inclined plane
  3. Block and tackle
  4. Block and string
  5. Hooke's law
  6. Springs with different spring constants
  7. 1-kg mass
  8. Weight-lifting machine (power demo)

Optional Demos:

Week 6

Lecture 10: Monday, October 8 - Smith

Topic: (Momentum and collisions)

Demos:

  1. Benchtop PC and LCD display
  2. Rubber ball
  3. Happy and sad balls
  4. Air track
  5. Momentum balls
  6. Air table

Optional Demos:

Lecture 11: Wednesday, October 10 - Smith

Topic: (Collisions and Rockets)

Demos:

  1. Momentum balls
  2. Ballistic pendulum
  3. Water rocket
  4. CO2 rocket
  5. Rotating platform with basketball and CO2
  6. Rocketcycle

Optional Demos:

Week 7

Lecture 12: Monday, October 15 - Smith

Topic: (Circular Motion)

Demos:

  1. Rubber ball
  2. Ball on a string
  3. Conical pendulum
  4. Block on rotating table

Optional Demos:

Lecture 13: Wednesday, October 17 - Smith

Topic: (Rotational Motion and Gravity)

Demos:

  1. Ball on string
  2. Block on rotating table
  3. Conical pendulum
  4. Loop-the-loop
  5. Rolling chain
  6. Cavendish model
  7. Globe (10-inch) and bright light source (100 W lamp)
  8. Tennis ball

Optional Demos:

Week 8

Lecture 14: Monday, October 22 - Gilbert

Topic: (Equilibrium)

Demos:

  1. Ball on string
  2. Center-of-gravity boards
  3. Torque board
  4. Moving spool
  5. See-saw
  6. Horizontal flag pole
  7. Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
  8. Ladder against wall
  9. Deck of cards

Optional Demos:

Lecture 15: Wednesday, October 24 - Gilbert

Topic: (Angular Momentum)

Demos:

  1. Ladder against wall
  2. Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
  3. Weight and axle
  4. Large inclined plane with balls, disks, and hoops
  5. Yo-yos
  6. Rotating platform with barbells
  7. Bicycle wheel
  8. Rotating masses on pulleys
  9. Gyroscopes

Optional Demos:

Week 9

Lecture 16: Monday, October 29 - Gilbert

Topic: (Solids)

Demos:

  1. Weight of air
  2. Magdeburg hemispheres
  3. Manometer
  4. Hydraulic presss
  5. Young's Modulus
  6. Shear Modulus
  7. Pascal's Vases
  8. Brownian Motion --BB's

Optional Demos:

Halloween

Lecture 17: Wednesday, October 31 - Gilbert

Topic: (Fluids)

Demos:

  1. Bernoulli demo (pipe with flowing water)
  2. Bernoulli (levitated) ball
  3. Airfoils
  4. Venturi tube
  5. Aspirator
  6. Curve Ball
  7. Frisbee
  8. Archimedes principle
  9. Neutral-buoyancy balloon
  10. Toilet paper roll and air jet
  11. Torcelli's Theorem

Optional Demos:

Week 10

Lecture 18: Monday, November 5 - Smith

Topic: (Thermal Physics)

Demos:

  1. Benchtop PC and LCD display
  2. Examples of thermometers
  3. Thermal expansion demos
  4. Bimetallic strips
  5. PVT surface of ideal gas
  6. Pistons

Optional Demos:

Lecture 19: Wednesday, November 7 - Smith

Topic: (Thermal Physics)

Demos:

  1. Kinetic theory simulator (ball bearings)
  2. Kinetic theory demonstrator (Mercury tube)
  3. Variation of sound speed with temperature
  4. Balloon

Optional Demos:

Week 11

Lecture 20: Monday, November 12 - Gilbert

Topic: (Thermal Energy)

Demos:

  1. Liquid nitrogen cannon
  2. Leidenfrost effect
  3. Collapsing pop can in water tray
  4. Freezing by evaporation
  5. Model geyser
  6. Ethanol vapor explosion
  7. PVT surfaces - ideal gas, H2O, CO2
  8. Mechanical equivalence of heat

Optional Demos:

Lecture 21: Wednesday, November 14 - Gilbert

Topic: (Thermal Energy)

 Demos:

  1. Heat convection (candle)
  2. Heat radiation (parabolic mirrors)
  3. Heat conduction (marbles on heated rod)

Optional Demos:

Week 12

Lecture 22: Monday, November 19 - Smith

Topic: (Thermodynamics)

Demos:

  1. Wood block
  2. Expanding balloon when heated and cooled with LN2
  3. Piston with gun cotton

Optional Demos:

Lecture 23: Wednesday, November 21 - Smith

Topic: (Thermodynamics)

Demos:

  1. Automobile engine model
  2. Carnot cycle model
  3. Sterling engine

Optional Demos:

Thanksgiving Recess

Week 13

Lecture 24: Monday, November 26 - Smith

Topic: (Vibrations)

Demos:

  1. Projected circular motion
  2. Multiple coupled pendula
  3. Wilburforce pendulum

Optional Demos:

Lecture 25: Wednesday, November 28 - Smith

Topic: (Waves)

Demos:

  1. Single rope anchored in wall
  2. Wave speed on a rope (index cards)
  3. Compressional wave demo (horizontal slinky)
  4. Torsional waves (2-segment horizontal and vertical)
  5. Bowling ball and softball pendulums
  6. Interference of water waves

Optional Demos:

Week 14

Lecture 26: Monday, December 3 - Gilbert

Topic: (Sound)

Demos:

  1. Speed of sound
  2. Oscilloscope and microphone
  3. Tuning fork
  4. Bell in vacuum
  5. Breathing He and Sulfur Hexafluoride
  6. Sound level meter
  7. Doppler effect (rotating arm, train whistle)
  8. Casette Player with tapes

Optional Demos:

 

Lecture 27: Wednesday, December 5 - Smith

Topic: (Sound)

Demos:

  1. Flame pipe
  2. Standing wave on a string with strobe lamp
  3. Oscilloscope and microphone
  4. Sine and square waves, noise source (with speaker)
  5. Musical instruments
  6. Tuning fork
  7. Singing rod
  8. Dog whistle
  9. Interference of sound
  10. Open and closed organ pipes
  11. Beat frequencies• Sound level meter
  12. Casette Player with tapes

Optional Demos:

Week 15

Lecture 28: Monday, December 11 - Gilbert

Topic: (Review)

• Demos TBD

Lecture 29: Wednesday, December 13 - Gilbert

Topic: (Review)

• Demos TBD

• Teaching evaluations.