Physics 3

Fall 2004

Jim Valles


Wed 9/8
Bowling ball
Historic Standard meter and regular meter stick
Metronome.

Fri 9/10
Short Dynamic track and cart.
Ford

mon
galilean incline
strings of beads
tennis ball
bucket to slide across floor with a kick

Wed. 9/15
. Tennis ball
. Simultaneous fall
. penny and feather.

fri 9/17
monkey and hunter.
water parabola.
Vertical Billiards.

Mon 9/20
turntable and platter
howitzer
car and sheet

Wed 9/22
Inertia ball and string
Mass and spring scale
Dynamic track and cart, pull with spring.
BB mechanics vector components

Fri 9/24
Zani mobiles (with rope)
Mass and Spring scale to drop.
Kick Ball
Simple Pendulum
40 Newton scale

Mon 9/27
1.Static equilibrium of a block on an incline
2. Pulling block
3. Series of dynamic carts connected by strings.
4. Dynamic track incline plane with cart and pulley and masses.
5. Kick ball.
6. Zani cart with force scale.

Wed 9/29
1) Pulling Block:Cinder block on plywood with the 110 N scale
2) Pulling block; Use Dynamic carts and weights to pull with 20 20 Newton scale with dynamic carts and double the mass to double the force.
3) Turntable and puck, wax and extra weight to double the weight of the puck to show that doubling the weight will change the radius.
4) Ring with cut on OHP.
5) Mass on a string that I can twirl around
Tipping board to use with cinder block.

Fri 10/1
Turntable and disk setup again
Tennis ball and the earth's gravitational field
Weight and the nail
Cart and scale for dragging people along

Mon 10/4
Airtrack with a cart and spring (I am doing spring forces and work) Three tracks

Wed 10/6
no class. exam.

Fri 10/8
3 tracks
bowling ball pendulum and the head cam

Wed 10/13
Board with a rope that I can drag around
Glider connected with two springs
simple pendulum

Friday 10/15
Green ball Kick ball and basketball
Egg toss and sheet
Happy Ball and Sad Ball

Monday 10/18
Airtrack for inelastic collisions
Ballistic pendulum
Firecracker carts
happy and sad balls

Wed. 10/20
Newton’s cradle
Dynamix carts for elastic collisions
Tennis ball and bball.


Fri 10/22
Tilted airtrack, two gliders w spring
Whirlygig
Throw Toy
rotating wheel
zani carts w pole
COM board

Mon 10/25
A real yoyo that can sleep
Whirligig with mass on an unbreakable string
Moment of inertial wands
Cylinder, Disk, Sphere as moment of inertia props

Wed 10/27
Atwood's machine
Bicycle (do we have one?)
Wrench and nut
Torque Bar

Fri 10/29
whirlygig
rolling race
walk the spool (walk the yoyo)

Mon 11/1
Pump top
Top with string, use small gyro.
Bike Wheel and motor.
Walk the spool

Wed 11/3
Hoberman
Stool and weights
Acrobatic Astros
 

Fri 11/5
com tri and cresc
tipping board
meter stick for fingers
balance of forces and torques
torque beam meter stick
people lifter
slipping ladder


Mon 11/8
Stacking boards
Tipping blocks that you made for today
Ladder slipping

Wed 11/10
No demo.
Exam.

Fri 11/12
bob p. to lecture on Big G.
Cavendish, no alignment.
Cavendish model.

Mon 11/15
Kepler lecture. Kepler video edits. preview on Mon morn.

Wed 11/17
Horizontal mass on spring on airtrack
Vertical mass on a spring
Pendulum, turntable and ball shadow apparatus
Tuning fork that I can bang and they can hear.
bouncing super ball, use teather ball
Lacrosse ball.

Fri 11/19
Pendulum and turntable
Torsional oscillator
Hanging Mass on a spring
Tuning fork, magnetic pickup and projected oscilloscope to show waveform

Monday 11/22
Damped tuning fork on oscope.
Driven oscillating glider on the air track.
Break the glass beaker with sound.
Three tuning forks, beats and no beats.
Shadow project simple pendulum and ball on a turntable.

Mon 11/29
Pressure independent of orientation demo
Oil drum collapse
Pressure depends on depth
Pascal’s Law demo
Bed o nails. Demetri to video tape.

wed 12/1
fish tank, block and newton scale.
pascals law, big tube little tube.
neckdown.
aspirator.
venturi tube.
beach ball blower.
 

Fri 12/3
1. Aspirator. use graduated cylinder not beaker.
2. Venturi Tube.
3. Beach Ball Blower.
4. Ripple tank, wave generator.
5. Longitudinal wave machine
6. Pulse long spring

mon 12/6
standing vibrating string.
pulse long spring, video disk of pulse.

Wed 12/8

  1. Center of Percussion; Baseball bat and toothpick.
  2. Break the String; Collapsing A frame. (Body slammed!)
  3. U-Tube water Oscillator. (not used)
  4. Water Rokit
  5. Red Ball Express.
  6. Loop the loop.
  7. High road Low road.
  8. Cavendish; Cinema Classics video disc.
  9. Toricelli Tank. (not used)