Fall 2003

Physics 3, Xiao

wed. 9/3
nothing

Friday 9/7
1. Long air track and glider to show one dimensional motion constant velocity and no friction.
2. Long dynamic track and cart to show motion with a small amount friction.
3. Frictionless air puck to show two dimensional motion with no friction.

Mon 9/8
· String of beads
· Galilean incline and metronome.
· Penny and feather.

Wed 9/10
· Howitzer
· Tennis ball
· Vertical Billiards
· Simultaneous fall

Fri 9/12
Monkey and Hunter
Howitzer again
platter and puck
Pasco ball launcher

Mon 9/15
1) Platter and puck
2) water parabola
3) truck and sheet

wed 9/17
inertia mass and string,
dynamic cart,
sliding block and force scale
static equilibrium block and incline

Fri 9/19
Zani Mobile
BB Mechanics Tension in a string 1J30.20
Graph Acceleration 1J10.11
Hang a mass from a sprin scale 1G10.11

Fri 9/19 for Mon 9/22
·Little person lifts the Professor
·Tug of war and a little person pushes in the middle
·Normal Force with electronic balance on incline
·Pasco graph a and v for cart on incline plane

Wed 9/24
· Puck and platter
· Tipping board
· Pull friction cart with spring
· Pulling block (cigar box and lead weight) with 40 N force scale
· cart and pulley with masses on incline plane

Mon 9/29
·Pile driver
·Pulling block, pull at various angles
·Ball to throw
·Pull Zani cart with two force scales, one perpendicular.

Wed 10/1
exam

Fru 10/3
Jim Valles to lecture
Post with stiff spring and Newton Froce scale.
Three Rails
Airtrack and Glider with one spring to pull.

Mon 10/6
Jim Valles
1. Airtrack and glider with two springs
2. Mass and two springs.

Mon 10/20
· Mounted bike wheel
Bike wheel and motor

wed 10/22
Physics 3, Xiao, room 166, 11:00 AM
· Ball, ring, disc
· Whirlygig
· Hoberman sphere
· Laptop with www

fri 10/24
racing ball, hoop, disk
bike to pedal
torque bar
yoyo
bike wheel and mass
wrench
inertia wands

Mon 10/27
Ball hoop disk race
Yoyo
Bike wheel to show rolling
small Walk-the-Spool to drop by hand
Large Walk-the-spool

Wed 10/29
exam

Fri 10/31
Hoberman
stool and weights
stool, bike wheel, motor

Mon 11/3
· Lanou's Balance box
· Balance bird
· Slipping Ladder
· Stacking blocks
· Gyro
· Wheel and motor
· Curious George
· Free rod and pivot
· Cork and string

Wed 11/5
· Walk the plank
· Slipping Ladder

Fri 11/7
· Three strings
· Shear foam
· Long rod for compression and tension
· Acylic stress through crossed polaroids

Mon 11/10
· Cavendish Balance
· Torsion pendulum as a model for the Cavendish balance

Wed 11/12
BB ellipse device

Fri 11/14
SHM Demos:
Simple pendulum
Physical Pendulum
Tuning Forks
Shadow project ball on turntable
Mass and spring
Glider and spring on airtrack
Software to show Phase of sine wave?
Oscilloscope with function generator

Mon 11/17
simple pend
vertical mass spring
physical pend
reference circle shadow

Wed 11/19 no class. exam.

Fri 11/21
·Density coke v. diet coke
·Crush the 55-gallon drum. Twice. 2B30.10
·Pressure depth meter and open tube manometer
·Curved tubes equality of pressure
·Ironwood suspended from a Newton scale to show the Archimede's principle 2B40.20

Mon 11/24
Venturi tube
airplane: blow on paper over edge of table

Wed 11/26
video

Mon 21/1
IBM coral
Water waves
Long, transv, spring
Fcn gen and oscope

Wed 12/3
1) String and strobe
2) Long spring

Fri 12/5
Resonance: Break glass
Resonance: Tacoma Narrows
Laser double slit
Water video double slit