Physics 7

Physics 7, Landsberg.

wed. 9/3
·Powerpoint with his PC, my www cable.
·Galilean incline and metronome, at 9:30 toward the end of class.
·Penny and Feather. Me to do, take it into the class evacuated at 10 minutes after the start of class.
·Equivalence principle.

Fri 9/5
no class

Mon 9/8
a) Simultaneous two balls drop off table. One has a horizontal velocity and
one falls straight. Both hit ground at same time.
b) Vertical billiards. Like monkey and gun demonstration but with two balls
starting at the same height.
c) Monkey and gun demonstration.
d) Howitzer and a tunnel. Ball thrown in air and caught.

wed 9/10
a) Simultaneous two balls drop off table.
b) Vertical billiards.
c) Monkey and gun demonstration.
d) Howitzer and a tunnel.
e) Circular motion bubble on OHP
f) Ring with cut on OHP.

Mon 9/15

· Firecracker sandwich
· Zani mobiles
· Inertia ball with two strings
· Ball on a turntable with hole
· Puck on a turntable (tracing pen and sheets of paper)
· Bubble on OHP

Wed 9/17
a) Inertia ball and one string
b) Zani mobiles
note: he will end class at 9:30.

Mon 9/22
I'd like to use the train with the springs again and the firecracker
sandwich. Also, if you have pulleys and strings attached to the blackboard
(this was in Humphrey's notes), I could use it as well.

Wed. 9/24
Cavendish
conical pendulum
terminal velocity

Mon 9/29
· car on coke cans using Pasco dynamic cart and track-on-track
· Two masses and a string
· Throw toy
· Conical pendulum
· Air track with two carts connect by a leaf spring held under tension by a string. Burn the string.
· Any other ideas I have

Wed 10/1
Nothing

Mon 10/6
· Red Ball Express
· Water Rokit
· Egg and sheet
· Water balloons
· Airtrack push-me-pull-you

Mon 10/20
· Dynamic carts elastic and inelastic collision
· Newton's Cradle
· Basketball and Tennis ball
· Three kik dis pucks for 2-d collisions

Wed 10/22
Physics 7, Landsberg, room 168, 8:30 AM
· Dynamic carts elastic and inelastic collisions.
· Newton's Cradle
· Basketball and Tennis ball
· Three kik dis pucks for 2-d collisions

Mon 10/27 no demo

Wed 10/29
·Break the string with a heavy wheel, Don't break the string with a light wheel.
·Torsion pendulum
·Whilrygig
·Ball, ring, disk race

Mon 11/3
· Racing ball, ring, disk
· Heavy wheel and string
· Light wheel and string
· "Ice skater" (
· 2) Same with the bicycle wheel
· 3) Hoberman sphere
· Spin a cork overhead and raise a weight

Wed 11/5
· Whirlygig with three strings
· Parallel axis demo
· Hoberman
· Bike wheel and stool
· Ice skater
· Torsion pendulum
· Balance bird
· Slipping ladder
· Teeter board
· Anything else for solid bodies??

Mon 11/10
Static equilibrium of a ladder leaning on a wall
Center of percussion: Strike a meter stick on the floor with a lead puck.
Center of percussion: Baseball bat and tooth pick.
Rolling a spool on an incline: Kinetic energy of rotation.

wed 11/12
center of percussion meter stick and puck
center of percussion bat and toothpicks
mitac gyro
toy top

mon 11-17
· frictionless air ball precession
· counter balanced gyro precession
· bike wheel and motor precession
Greg will call back if he wants anything for keplers laws, like the harmony of the spheres music vinyl, or the ellipse device for the blackboard.

Wed 11/19

Mon 11/24

Wed 11/26
glass w sound, NO water beaker
Damping at start of class, Damped tuning fork
Hand held mass and spring
Video: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse