Fall 1999  Physics 7
 
Tue. 8/31 for Wed. 9/8
  30 min video edits from Mechanical Universe No. 1
Tue. 8/31 for Fri. 9/10
  Galilean incline
  New Demo: adjustable Galilean?
Thu. 9/9 for Fri. 9/10
  (1) Galilean incline plane and metronome
  (2) 20 N scale with 1 Newton, 1 kg. and 1 lb. masses
  (3) Newton scale and 2 kg mass to hold by hand and move with constant velocity or with accelerator
Thu. 9/9 for Mon. 9/13
  Inertia ball( Note: preview after Friday class)
Tue. 9/14 for Wed. 9/15
  (1) Ring with cut
  (2) Rotating platter with puck
Tue. 9/14 for Fri. 9/17
  (1) Centrifuge
  (2) Bubble on OHD
  (3) Bike wheel with spokes as prop
Mon. 9/20
Simultaneous fall
Wed. 9/22
(1) Cavendish demo
(2) tossional oscillator prop
(3) VDG to show electrical force, stool, needle
Fri. 9/24
Blackboard mechanics spring with nuts for masses
Series/parrel springs
Mon. 9/27
Terminal viscosity with Glycerin
Wed. 9/29
(1) Cinder block and Newton force scale
(2) Incline plane with various friction blocks
(3) Puck on a rotating turntable
Fri. 10/1
(1) Firecracker sandwich on the airtrack.
(2) Red ball express
(3) Center of mass wrench
Mon. 10/3
Nothing
Wed. 10/5
Coupled pendulum- To show that Newton's laws are not an eay way to describe a many-body system; To showthat the energy is a better way to describe a two body system.
Wed. 10/13
Verticle mass & spring
Simple pendulum on white board
Bowl ball nose basher
Repeat for Fri. 10/15
Fri. 10/15 for Mon. 10/18
Collisions
Newtons crandle
Airtrack & gliders
T-ball & B-ball
Sad & Happy
Wed. 10/20
Dynamic track and carts
newton's crandle
T-ball and B-ball
Fri. 10/22
Firecracker sandwich on airtrack
Mon. 10/25
Ice skater--stool and weights
Fri. 10/29 and Mon. 11/1
Adjustable Momentum contraption
Rolling spool and stool
Yoyo
Large walking the spool
Mon. 11/1 and Wed. 11/3
Topm to pump up
Bike wheel precession, motor, stool
Small walk the spool
Mitac Gyro
Wed. 11/3 for Fri. 11/5
Top
Bike wheel, motor, stool
Mitac gyro
Mon. 11/8
3 bike wheels and motor
Acrobatic Astronauts Ch. 10 Gyroscopes
Superconducting levitating magnet
Compressed helium cylinder
Glass pipette
Wed. 11/10
Stick/ball
Air bearing precession/rotation
Bike wheel and motor to make a top
Fri. 11/12
Exam. No demos
Mon. 11/15
Coriolis--two student chair on rotating platform
Bucket of water
Wed. 11/17
Coriolis force student platform
Water in  a bucket
Fri. 11/19
Nothing
Mon. 11/22
Globe to spin as a model for the rotation of the earth
Wed. 11/24
No class
Mon. 11/29
Globe to spin
Wed. 12/1
Nothing
Tue. 11/30 for Fri. 12/3
Mechanical resonance
Breaking glass with sound
Fri. 12/3 for Mon. 12/6
Tacoma Narrows video