Physics 3

Fall 2001

Geng Xiao

 

Friday 9/7
  • Long air track and glider to show one dimensional motion constant velocity and no friction.
  • Long dynamic track and cart to show motion with a small amount friction.
Monday 9/10
  • String of beads
  • Galilean incline and metronome
  • Penny and feather
Wed 9/12
  • Vertical billiards
Fri 9/14
  • Howitzer and tunnel
  • Water parabola
  • Simultaneous two ball drop
  • cork and string 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, October 1 2001.

  • Newton scale and wood block
  • Pasco Force sensor and dynamic cart
  • Weight and nail

 

Friday, October 5, 2001.

  • Airtrack, mass and spring

 

Wed 10/10

  • Bowling Ball Basher

  • Three rails

Fri 10/12

  • Dynamic cart and track
  • Rope and board
  • Three rails
  • Racing balls

 

Wed 10/17

  • Dynamic cart collisions
  • Sad and happy balls
  • Tennis ball and basketball, also sand bag
  • Egg and sheet

Fri 10/19

  • Walking in a canoe
  • COM wrench
  • Whirlygig
  • Mounted bike wheel

Mon 10/22

  • Ball, hoop, disk;
  • Bike wheel and string
  • Toilet paper rolls for spool and string
  • Atwood’s machine with moment of I
  • Repeat Whirlygig

Wed 10/24

  • Torque toilet paper
  • Wheel and string
  • Atwood’s with mo of I
  • Walk the spool
  • Wrench (torque)

Friday, October 26

  • Atwood’s w mo of I
  • Wheel and string
  • Walk the spool
  • 30 degree incline and wheel

Monday 10/29

  • Hoberman sphere
  • Wheel and stool
  • Weights and stool
  • Precession?
  • Acrobatic Astronauts
  • Wheel and ramp
  • Whirlygig

 

Wednesday, October 31

exam

Friday 11/2

  • Precession of a bike wheel
  • Gyro in a briefcase
  • Hoberman sphere
  • Levitron
  • Frisbee
  • Puck

Monday 11/5

  • Curious George
  • Slipping ladder
  • Stack of boards

Wednesday 11/7

  • Shear foam
  • Long PVC rod to flex
  • Crossed polaroids and stress plastic
  • Twirl-a-tune corrugated pipe with broomstick core to compress
  • Rubber hose with stick core to stretch

  Friday 11/9

  • Cavendish
  • Cavendish prop

  Mon 11/12

No demos.

  Wed 11/14

  • Examples of SHM
  • Chaotic pendulum

  Fri 11/16

  • Simple Pendulum
  • Airtrack and glider with springs for SHM

  Mon 11/19  Dave Cutts to lecture

  • Buoyancy with ironwood and aluminum, and Coke versus Diet Pepsi.
  • Crushing the 55 gallon drum with atmospheric pressure
  • Magdeburg spheres
  • Cannonball in a battleship
  • Pascal’s vases
  • Archimedes principle
  • Pressure versus depth
  • Mercury manometer
  • Cartesian diver

  Mon 11/21 Last lecture before Thanksgiving break

Video from Mechanical Universe on SHM

  Mon 11/26

  • Venturi effect
  • Bernoulli effect

  Wed 11/28 exam

 

Fri 11/30

·        Wave machines

·        Long spring

·        Water waves

·        slinky

 
Mon 12/3

·        Shive Wave machine

·        Long spring, phase of free and fixed end reflections

·        Laser disc of superposition of slinky

·        Superposition of Traveling waves on OHP

  • Monochord

 
Wed 11/3

·        Vibrating string.

·        Laser disc of superposition

·        Superposition on OHP

·        Long Spring

·        Interference of sound

  • OHP Transparencies for Interference of sound

 
Fri 11/5

·        Beats

·        Laser double slit interference

·        Interference of sound

·        OHP Transparencies for Interference of sound

·        Breaking glass w sound. Note use hand held simple pendulum to discuss phase at resonance, amplitude at resonance.  Use stroked wine glass, “Dead” glass

  • Levitating superconductor