WFU Physics Lecture Demonstrations

1A MEASUREMENT

 
• 1A10 Basic Units
• 1A10.36 [M-0 C or M-0.1036] One Nanosecond of Length
• 1A10.50 [M-2] One Liter ("Decimeter") Cube
  
• 1A40 Vectors
• 1A40.14 Walker Vector Addition
• 1A40.30 [M-0.4030] Pegboard Vector Addition
 
• 1A50 Vector-Related Mathematical Topics
• 1A50.10 [M-0.5010] Radian Disc
   

1C LINEAR KINEMATICS

• 1C10 Linear Velocity
• 1C10.10 [M-2 B] Dump Truck on a Moving Sheet
• 1C10.25[M-2 G] Cart on a Frictionless Track
 
• 1C20 Uniform Linear Acceleration
• 1C20.10 [M-6A] Guinea and Feather Tube
• 1C20.15 [M-2 P] Heavy (Pb) and Light (Tennis) Ball Drop
• 1C20.30 [M-2 X] Inclined Dynamincs Track Acceleration
  

• 1D50 Observing Motion due to Central Forces
• 1D50.10 [M-24 M] Ball on a String
• 1D50.40 [M-24 J] Revolving Pail of Water
 
• 1D55 Motion after Centrifugal Escape
• 1D55.10 [M-24 V] Broken Ring
• 1D55.15 [M-24 V] Release Ball on a String
 
• 1D60 Projectile Motion
• 1D60.10 [M-5] Ballistics Car and Tunnel
• 1D60.20 [M-6] Simultaneous Fall
• 1D60.26 [M-6J] Bus Jumps Bridge in the movie Speed [VIDEO]
• 1D60.30 [M-7A] Monkey & the Hunter
 

• 1E20 Rotating Reference Frames
• 1E20.50 [M-23 H] Outdoor 2-person Merry-Go-Round [OUTSIDE]
 

 
• 1F20 Inertia of Rest
• 1F20.10 [M-13A] Inertia "Ball" (Vertical)
• 1F20.19~[M-13 K] Kerr and Matthews' Inertial Toilet Paper Device
• 1F20.25 [M-21A+] Smash Block on Bed of Nails
• 1F20.30 [M-13 N] Tablecloth Pull
• 1F20.34 [M-13] Ball and Card Stand
• 1F20.35 [M-13 P] Eggs, Pizza Pan & Broom Trick
  

1G NEWTON'S SECOND LAW

• 1G20 Accelerated Reference Frames
• 1G20.63 [M-6B] Scale on the Elevator
  

1J RIGID BODY STATICS

• 1J10 Finding the Center of Gravity
• 1J10.10 [M-14 NC] "CG" of North Carolina
• 1J10.27~[M-14-c]CG of an Irregularly Shaped Beam
• 1J10.30 [M-14-b] CG of a Loaded Beam
 
• 1J11 Exceeding the Center of Gravity
• 1J11.21[M-14 V] Cantilevered Books
• 1J11.50 [M-4] Double Cone and Plane Trick
 
• 1J20 Stable, Unstable and Neutral Equilibrium
• 1J20.35 [M-15A] Horse and Rider
• 1J20.36~[M-15 B] Magic Bird
 
• 1J30 Resolution of Forces
• 1J30.10 [M-16] Force Components on Inclined Plane
• 1J30.25 [M-12 E] Rope and Three Students
 
• 1J40 Static Torque
• 1J40.15 [M-15 T] "Torque Wrench"
• 1J40.20 [M-14-a] Beam With 14 Hooks
 

• 1K10 Dynamic Torque
• 1K10.50 [M-9] Feebleminded Disk Rolls Uphill
 

 
• 1K30 Pressure
• 1K30.10 Bed of Nails
• 1K30.20 [M-21A+] 'Pop' Balloons on Bed of Nails
 

 
• 1L20 Orbits
• 1L20.20~[M-25 F] Coin-Roller Funnel (Vortx®)
• 1L20.50 [M-25 M] Ellipse Drawing
 

• 1M10 Work
• 1M10.20 [M-18 G] 4-Kg Pile Driver Drives Nail
• 1M10.25 [M-18 H] Pile Driver Crushes Cans

 

• 1M40 Conservation of Energy

• 1M40.10 [M-18B] Nose-Basher Pendulum
• 1M40.20 [M-20] Miller Loop-de-loop
• 1M40.30 [M-21B] Ball in a Trough
• 1M40.41 [M-20 B] Swinging Arm Ballistic Pendulum
 
 

• 1N10 Impulse and Thrust
• 1N10.20 [M-21 E] Egg Caught in Sheet
• 1N10.25 [M-21 G] Drop Egg in Water
 
• 1N20 Conservation of Linear Momentum
• 1N20.20 [M-21] Spring-Apart Dynamic Carts
 
• 1N21 Mass And Momentum Transfer
• 1N21.10 [M-21 S] Roller Bladers and Mass
 
• 1N22 Rockets
• 1N22.10 [M-21 W] Fire Extinguisher Wagon
 
• 1N30 Linear Collisions
• 1N30.20 [M-22B] Newton's Cradle
• 1N30.30 [M-22 X] Dynamics Track Collision Carts
• 1N30.60 [M-22 A] Double Ball Drop  

• see also1E20.50 [M-24 H] Outdoor Rotating Frame
 
• 1Q10 Moment of Inertia
• 1Q10.10 [M-26 A] Inertia Wands and Two Students
• 1Q10.30 [M-26] Ring and Disk Race
 
• 1Q20 Rotational Energy
• 1Q20.50 [M-8] Hinged Stick and Ball
 
• 1Q30 Transfer of Angular Momentum
• 1Q30.10 [M-27+] Passing the Wheel To Rotating Person
• 1Q30.15 [M-27+] Handing More Mass To Rotating Person
 
• 1Q40 Conservation of Angular Momentum
• 1Q40.10 [M-27+] Rotating Person and Weights
• 1Q40.23 Rotary Motor
• 1Q40.30 [M-27+] Rotating Person and Bicycle Wheel
• 1Q40.80 [M-66] Hero's Engine
 
• 1Q50 Gyroscopes
• 1Q50.20 [M-27+] Bicycle Wheel Gyro
• 1Q50.42 [M-28A] Small Gyroscopes
• 1Q50.50 [M-28+] Precession with gyroscope
  

• 1R10 Hooke's Law
• 1R10.10 [M-31] Stretch a Spring