Past Demos

Measurement / Mechanics / Thermodynamics / Waves / Fluids / Electricity and Magnetism / Optics

** = Previously Used in Classes (since 7/98)

MEASUREMENT
no previous Measurement demos

MECHANICS
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**
M120 Inclined Pasco Track**
M135 Terminal Velocity - Air Track**
M140 Terminal Velocity - Free Fall**
Friction M155 Static Friction (horizontal)**
M160 Static Friction (incline plane)**
Motion in Two Dimensions
Central Forces M210 Whirligig**
M220 Rotating Tank of Water (parabola)**
Newton's Second Law
Basic Motion  M400 Acceleration on an Air Track**
M405 Acceleration on a Pasco Track**
Newton's Third Law
M500 Pasco Carts and Spring Explosion**
Linear Momentum
Conservation of Linear Momentum M610 Pasco Carts and Spring Explosion**
M615 Collisions on Pasco Tracks**
M630 Newton's Cradle**
Work and Energy
Conservation of Energy M730 Ballistic Pendulum**
M740 Loop the Loop**
Springs
Hook's Law  M800 Hanging Masses**
Energy M815 Potential vs. Kinetic (Pasco Track)**
M820 Potential vs. Kinetic (with Gravity)**
Simple Harmonic Motion
Simple Pendulum M900 Simple Pendulum**
M910 Torsion Pendulum**
Springs M940 Mass Hanging on a Spring**
M945 Air Track Glider With One Spring**
M950 Air Track Glider With Two Springs**
Damped Oscillators M965 Oscillating Plate in a Magnetic Field **
Rotational Dynamics
Moment of Inertia M1200 Ring, Disk, and Sphere**
M1205 All Spheres Roll the Same**
Conservation of Angular Momentum M1215 Change "Linear" Momentum into Angular (1)**
M1220 Change "Linear" Momentum into Angular (2)**
M1225 Rotating Platforms and Weights**
M1240 Rotating Platform and Bicycle Wheel**

THERMODYNAMICS
no previous Thermo demos

 
WAVES
Beats
W300 Tuning Forks**
Sound
Resonance W520 Resonance in Musical Sticks**
W530 Organ Pipes**

 
FLUIDS
Dynamic Fluids
F200 2-Liter Bottle Flow Rate**
Bernoulli's force F215 Water Level Tubes**
F220 Ball and Funnel**
F235 Bernoulli's Tube**
Viscosity and Terminal Velocity F240 Terminal Velocity in Syrup, Water and Air**
F245 Terminal Velocity on and Air Track**

 
ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM
Electric Fields
Production of Charge E100 Fur and Rods**
E120 Van De Graaff Generator**
Coulomb's Law  E125 Pith Balls**
Charge by Induction  E140 Electroscopes**
E145 Pop Can and Rods**
Electric Fields and Force E160 Van De Graaff Generator**
E165 Hair Raising Demo**
E170 Streamers on Van De Graaff**
E180 Ping Pong Balls**
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**
Circuits and Capacitors
RC Circuits E445 Charging a RC Circuit**
Magnetism
Materials E500 Various Permanent Magnets**
E510 Broken Magnet**
Magnetic Fields E515 Magnet and Iron Filings**
E520 3-D Field Mapper**
E525 Long Wire With Compass**
E530 Wire on Overhead**
Magnetic Force E560 Levitating Magnets**
E570 Cathode Ray Tube and Permanent Magnet**
E575 Cathode Ray Tube and Current in a Wire**
E590 Current Carrying Wire in Magnetic Field**
E595 Jumping Wire Loop**
Inductance
Induced Currents E710 Permanent Magnet, Coil, and Galvanometer**
E715 Two Coils and Galvanometer**
E725 Moving a Coil in a Field**
E735 Light the Bulb**
E740 Transformers**
Eddy Currents  E745 Pendulum and Magnet**
E755 Magnet Falling in Tube**
E760 Jumping Ring**

 
OPTICS
Geometrical Optics
Mirrors P100 Laser and Plane Mirror**
P115 Concave Mirrors**
P120 Convex Mirrors**
Lenses P145 Concave Lens**
P150 Convex Lens**
P155 Multiple Lenses**
P160 Image Formation**
Diffraction
P200 Single Slit with Laser**
Interference
P300 Two Slits and Laser**
Gratings
P400 One Dimensional Gratings**
P405 Two Dimensional Gratings**
P410 Differently Shaped Gratings**
Polarization
Materials P505 Polarizing Sheets**
Polarized light P510 Brewster's Angle
Polarized light P515 Crossed Polarizers**

** = Previously Used in Classes (since 7/98)