Measurement / Mechanics / Thermodynamics / Waves / Fluids / Electricity and Magnetism / Optics / Modern
| Measurement | |
|---|---|
| Units | A100 Assorted Lengths |
| A105 Assorted Masses | |
| A110 One Liter Cube | |
| Scaling | A135 Scaling Cube |
| Error and Accuracy | A155 Reaction Time |
| Vectors | |
| Resolving vectors | A200 Folding Ruler |
| A205 Resolving Forces - Force Table | |
| A210 Resolving Forces - Blackboard | |
| A212 Resolving Forces - Inclined Plane | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Coordinate Systems | A215 Cartesian |
| A220 Cylindrical | |
| A225 Spherical | |
| Computer Simulations Available |
| Motion in One Dimension | ||
|---|---|---|
| Velocity | M100 Air Track and Glider** | |
| M105 Pasco Cart and Track** | ||
| Uniform Acceleration | M110 Constant Force - Fan Cart** | |
| M111 Constant Force - Pasco Track** | ||
| M113 Constant Force - Air Track | ||
| M115 Inclined Air Track | ||
| M120 Inclined Pasco Track** | ||
| M125 Drop Lead and Ping Pong Balls | ||
| M130 Drop Ball and Paper | ||
| M135 Terminal Velocity - Air Track** | ||
| M140 Terminal Velocity - Free Fall** | ||
| Friction | M145 Sliding a Block (horizontal motion) | |
| M150 Sliding a Block (incline plane) | ||
| M155 Static Friction (horizontal)** | ||
| M160 Static Friction (incline plane)** | ||
| M165 Kinetic Friction (horizontal) | ||
| M170 Kinetic Friction (incline plane) | ||
| M180 Area Dependence of Friction | ||
| Motion in Two Dimensions | ||
| Central Forces | M205 Ball on a String | |
| M210 Whirligig** | ||
| M215 Pail of Water | ||
| M220 Rotating Tank of Water (parabola)** | ||
| M222 Uphill Roller | ||
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Projectile Motion | M225 Throwing a Ball | |
| M227 Ballistics Car | ||
| M230 Simultaneous Falling Objects | ||
| M235 Monkey and the Hunter | ||
| Relative Motion | M240 Swim Across the River | |
| M245 Coriollis Curve | ||
| Newton's First Law | ||
| M300 Inertial Bongs | ||
| M305 Inertial Balls | ||
| M310 Inertial Block | ||
| M320 Hammer and Hand | ||
| M325 Hit the Nail on the Head | ||
| M330 Pulling a Tablecloth | ||
| M335 Shifting an Air Track | ||
| M340 Shifting a Pasco Track | ||
| Newton's Second Law | ||
| Basic Motion | M400 Acceleration on an Air Track** | |
| M405 Acceleration on a Pasco Track** | ||
| M410 Acceleration with Friction | ||
| M415 Atwood's Machine | ||
| Accelerating Reference Frames | M420 Drop Mass and Scale | |
| M425 Drop Cup and Balls | ||
| M430 Drop Slinky | ||
| Newton's Third Law | ||
| M500 Pasco Carts and Spring Explosion** | ||
| Linear Momentum | ||
| Impulse | M600 Egg in a Sheet | |
| M602 Happy/Sad Balls** | ||
| M603 Recoil Again** | ||
| Conservation of Linear Momentum | M605 Throw a Ball from Cart | |
| M610 Pasco Carts and Spring Explosion** | ||
| M615 Collisions on Pasco Tracks** | ||
| M620 Ballistic Pendulum | ||
| M625 Catch the Ball | ||
| M630 Newton's Cradle** | ||
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Work and Energy | ||
| Work | M700 Work Against Gravity | |
| Simple Machines | M705 Pulleys | |
| M710 Levers | ||
| Conservation of Energy | M715 Dropping Items | |
| M725 Stopped Pendulum | ||
| M730 Ballistic Pendulum** | ||
| M735 Coupled Pendulum | ||
| M740 Loop the Loop** | ||
| M745 Space Pet (rattleback) | ||
| Springs | ||
| Hook's Law | M800 Hanging Masses** | |
| M805 Springs in Series | ||
| M810 Springs in Parallel | ||
| Energy | M815 Potential vs. Kinetic (Pasco Track)** | |
| M820 Potential vs. Kinetic (with Gravity)** | ||
| Simple Harmonic Motion | ||
| Simple Pendulum | M900 Simple Pendulum** | |
| M905 Bowling Ball Pendulum** | ||
| M910 Torsion Pendulum** | ||
| M915 Oscillating Loop | ||
| M920 Sweet Spot of a Bat/Meter Stick | ||
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Coupled Pendulum | M925 Wilburforce Pendulum | |
| M930 Swinging a Mass on a Spring | ||
| M935 Pendulum Coupled with String/Spring | ||
| M936 Coupled Pendulum | ||
| Springs | M940 Mass Hanging on a Spring** | |
| M945 Air Track Glider With One Spring** | ||
| M950 Air Track Glider With Two Springs** | ||
| Damped Oscillators | M960 Dash Pot | |
| M965 Oscillating Plate in a Magnetic Field ** | ||
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Driven Oscillators | M970 Driven Mechanical Oscillator | |
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Statics | ||
| M1000 Center of Mass - Meter Stick | ||
| M1005 Center of Mass - Ring Stand | ||
| M1010 Resolving Forces - Force Table | ||
| M1015 Resolving Forces - Blackboard | ||
| M1020 Resolving Forces - Students and Rope | ||
| Computer Simulations Available | ||
| Torque | ||
| Static Torque | M1100 Torque Beam | |
| M1105 Loaded Beam | ||
| M1110 Levers | ||
| M1115 Leaning a Ladder on a Wal | ||
| M1117 Pulley with Weights | ||
| Dynamic Torque | M1120 Tipping a Block on an Incline | |
| M1125 Spool and String | ||
| M1130 Racing Pulleys | ||
| Rotational Dynamics | ||
| Moment of Inertia | M1200 Ring, Disk, and Sphere** | |
| M1205 All Spheres Roll the Same** | ||
| Conservation of Angular Momentum | M1210 Drop Masses While Spinning | |
| M1215 Change "Linear" Momentum into Angular (1)** | ||
| M1220 Change "Linear" Momentum into Angular (2)** | ||
| M1225 Rotating Platforms and Weights** | ||
| M1230 Squeezatron | ||
| M1235 Whirligig Revisited | ||
| M1240 Rotating Platform and Bicycle Wheel** | ||
| Gyros | M1245 Stability of Particles in Motion | |
| M1250 Precession |
| Thermal Properties of Matter | |
|---|---|
| T100 Ring and Ball | |
| T105 Solder Spring | |
| Heat and the First Law | |
| Heat Capacity | T200 Water and Aluminum on Hot Plate |
| T205 Aluminum Foil | |
| Mechanical Equivalent of Heat | T300 Cylinder of Lead Shot |
| T305 Boy Scout Trick | |
| Changes of State | |
| T400 Liquid to Solid | |
| T405 Boil to Freeze | |
| T410 Expansion During Vaporization | |
| Entropy | |
| T500 Balls in a Pan |
| General | |
|---|---|
| W100 Ether Box | |
| W105 Transfer of Energy | |
| Transverse | |
| W110 Stadium Wave | |
| W115 Slinky on Table | |
| W120 Rope | |
| W125 Speed of Wave on String | |
| W130 Speed of Wave on Slinky | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Longitudinal | |
| W135 Stadium Wave | |
| W140 Slinky | |
| W145 Group Versus Particle Velocity | |
| Standing Waves | |
| W150 String Shaker | |
| W152 Standing Waves on a String | |
| W155 String Shaker with Slinky | |
| Interference and Diffraction | |
| W200 Interference in a Ripple Tank | |
| W205 Diffraction in a Ripple Tank | |
| W210 Two Point Source in a Ripple Tank | |
| W212 Two Point Source Transparencies | |
| W215 Audible Interference | |
| W220 Interference with HeNe Laser** | |
| W225 Diffraction with HeNe Laser** | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Beats | |
| W300 Tuning Forks** | |
| W305 Speakers | |
| W310 Audible Beats with Oscilloscope | |
| Sound | |
| Hearing | W400 Range of Hearing |
| Resonance | W500 Horizontal Tube |
| W510 Vertical Water Column | |
| W520 Resonance in Musical Sticks** | |
| W530 Organ Pipes** |
| Static Fluids | |
|---|---|
| Pressure | F100 Suspending Plate |
| F105 Pascal's Vases | |
| Density and Buoyancy | |
| F110 Weight of a Submerged Block | |
| F115 Archimedes Principle | |
| F120 Cartesian Diver | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Dynamic Fluids | |
| F200 2-Liter Bottle Flow Rate** | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Bernoulli's force | F205 Floating Ball (1) |
| F210 Floating Ball (2) | |
| F215 Water Level Tubes** | |
| F220 Ball and Funnel** | |
| F225 Paper and Bottle | |
| F230 Curve Ball | |
| F235 Bernoulli's Tube** | |
| F236 Bernoulli's Tube 2 | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Viscosity and Terminal Velocity | F240 Terminal Velocity in Syrup, Water and Air** |
| F245 Terminal Velocity - Air Track** | |
| F250 Tornado Tube and Bottles | |
| Computer Simulations Available |
| Electric Fields | |
|---|---|
| Production of Charge | E100 Fur and Rods** |
| E105 Electrophorus | |
| E110 Wimshurst Machine | |
| E120 Van De Graaff Generator** | |
| Coulomb's Law | E125 Pith Balls** |
| E130 Rotating Rods on Pivot | |
| E135 Coulomb Balance | |
| Charge by Induction | E140 Electroscopes** |
| E143 Electrophorus | |
| E145 Pop Can and Rods** | |
| E150 Attraction of Metal rods | |
| E155 Wood on Pivot | |
| Electric Fields and Force | E160 Van De Graaff Generator** |
| E165 Hair Raising Demo** | |
| E170 Streamers on Van De Graaff** | |
| E175 Styrofoam Peanuts | |
| E180 Ping Pong Balls** | |
| E185 Strings | |
| E190 Charged Ovoid | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Gauss's Law | |
| E200 Faraday's Ice Pail | |
| E205 Faraday Cage (small) | |
| E210 Faraday Cage (big) | |
| E215 Charged Ovoid | |
| E220 Point and Ball | |
| Capacitors | |
| Introduction to Capacitors | E300 Sample Capacitors** |
| E305 Variable Space Plate Capacitor** | |
| E310 Parallel Plate and Dielectrics** | |
| Energy Stored in a Capacitor | E315 Lighting a Bulb** |
| E320 Lifting a Mass** | |
| E325 Shorting a Charged Capacitor | |
| Circuits and Capacitors | |
| Resistance | E400 Resistivity and Temperature |
| E403 Resistance Boards | |
| Electromotive Force | E405 Resistance in Batteries |
| E410 Gravity and Voltage | |
| DC Circuits | E415 Kirchoff's Voltage Law |
| E420 Kirchoff's Current Law | |
| E425 Ohm's Law | |
| E430 Violation of Ohm's law | |
| E435 Resistors in Series | |
| E440 Resistors in Parallel | |
| RC Circuits | E445 Charging a RC Circuit** |
| E450 Discharging a RC Circuit | |
| Magnetism | |
| Materials | E500 Various Permanent Magnets** |
| E505 Lodestone | |
| E510 Broken Magnet** | |
| Magnetic Fields | E515 Magnet and Iron Filings** |
| E520 3-D Field Mapper** | |
| E527 Wire Near Chalkboard | |
| E525 Long Wire With Compass** | |
| E530 Wire on Overhead** | |
| E535 Coil on Overhead | |
| E540 Solenoid on Overhead | |
| E545 Parallel Currents on Overhead | |
| E550 Anti-parallel Currents on Overhead | |
| E553 Toroid on Overhead | |
| Magnetic Force | E555 Magnets on a Pivot |
| E560 Levitating Magnets** | |
| E565 Work Done by Magnetic Forces | |
| E570 Cathode Ray Tube and Permanent Magnet** | |
| E575 Cathode Ray Tube and Current in a Wire** | |
| E580 Parallel Wires | |
| E585 Anti-parallel Wires | |
| E590 Current Carrying Wire in Magnetic Field** | |
| E592 Compasses Near Current Carrying Wire** | |
| E595 Jumping Wire Loop** | |
| Inductance | |
| Self Inductance | E700 Back EMF and Bulb |
| E705 Back EMF and Spark | |
| Induced Currents | E710 Permanent Magnet, Coil, and Galvanometer** |
| E715 Two Coils and Galvanometer** | |
| E720 Sliding wires | |
| E725 Moving a Coil in a Field** | |
| E730 Jumping Ring | |
| E735 Light the Bulb** | |
| E740 Transformers** | |
| Eddy Currents | E745 Pendulum and Magnet** |
| E750 Falling Plate | |
| E755 Magnet Falling in Tube** | |
| E760 Jumping Ring** | |
| AC Circuits | |
| E800 Damped Resonant Circuit | |
| E805 Driven Resonant Circuit | |
| Computer Simulations Available |
| Geometrical Optics | |
|---|---|
| Mirrors | P100 Laser and Plane Mirror** |
| P105 Specular and Diffuse Reflections | |
| P110 Multiple Plane Mirrors | |
| P115 Concave Mirrors** | |
| P120 Convex Mirrors** | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Refraction | P125 Determination of the Index of Refraction |
| P130 Ripple Tank Refraction | |
| P135 Refraction in Water | |
| P140 Laser and Fiber Optics | |
| Lenses | P145 Concave Lens** |
| P150 Convex Lens** | |
| P155 Multiple Lenses** | |
| P160 Image Formation** | |
| P165 Fresnel Lens | |
| Computer Simulations Available | |
| Instruments | P170 Telescope Model |
| P175 Microscope Model | |
| Luminosity | P180 Shadow Area |
| Diffraction | |
| P200 Single Slit with Laser** | |
| P205 Various Slit Widths | |
| Diffraction Around Objects | |
| P210 Circular Apertures | |
| P215 Razor Blades | |
| P220 Thin Wire | |
| Interference | |
| P300 Two Slits and Laser** | |
| P305 Comparison with Single Slit Patterns | |
| Gratings | |
| P400 One Dimensional Gratings** | |
| P405 Two Dimensional Gratings** | |
| P410 Differently Shaped Gratings** | |
| Polarization | |
| Materials | P500 Calcite Crystals |
| P505 Polarizing Sheets** | |
| Polarized light | P510 Brewster's Angle |
| P515 Crossed Polarizers** |
| D100 Rutherford Scattering | |
| D105 Photon Momentum |
** = Previously Used in Classes (since 7/98)
Red = New (since 9/03)