Physics 4, Spring  2001


Date Demos Reading
1/24/01 Introduction;Electric charge
Demos: static electricity 
1. PVC and Acrylic rods on rotating stands;
2. Vdg w balloons, w.g;
3. Conservation of charge;
4. Wimshurst-b.
Sects. 22-1,2,3,4
1/26/01 Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields                                       example 22-4
Demos: van de Graaf generator
Sects. 22-5,6
1/29/01 Electric field calculations
Examples 22-8, 9
Demo: field lines
1. E-field lines of a point and circle;
2. E-filed lines of a dipole.
Sects. 22-7,8
1/31/01 more on electric fields
Example 22-10
Electric dipoles 
1. E field lines of a DiPOG w grass seed
Sects. 22-7,8,9
2/2/01 1. Torque on a dipole;
2. E-field probe VdG electrometer.
2/7/01 1. Gauss Law;
2. Faraday cage in a cage.
2/12/01 1. Cap stuff;
2. Electronic in a Faraday cage;
3. Sparking to various radiation.
2/17/01 1. Repeat coil in CN for 1st class;
2. Ckt puzzler series.
2/21/01 1. Human battery;
2. Lemon battery;
3. Ckt puzzler;
4. Maybe also RC Flasher.
2/23/01 1. RC flasher.
2/26/01 1. Torque on a dpole.
3/2/01 1. Lodstone;
2. Crooke's;
3. Wire and compass;
4. Curren and wires.
3/5/01 1.Crooke's tube and magnet.
3/9/01 1. Torque on a loop and DC motor.
3/12/01 1. Iron filings and monopole;
2. Parallel current wires.
3/14/01 1. Iron filings and coils;
2. Electromagnet to pick up nails;
3. Super electromagnet.
3/16/01 1. Karol koleci;
2. Induction with coil,mag,galvo;
3. Jumping ring.
3/19/01 1. Copper tube and nib;
2. Eddy current pendulum;
3. Hi-Tc levitatiion.
3/21/01 1. LR big coil, switch, bulb;
2. LR black emf;
3. Jacobs cadder;
4. Weld nails.
3/23/01 1. RF dipole;
2. Polerizer and analyzer on OHD;
3. EM wave travelling simulations;
4. Intellimation EM radiation from a dipole;
5. Phy 4 web page EM wave Java applet.
4/2/01 1. BB optics--- Mirror reflection,
                         Refraction block;
                         Triangle total internal;
2. Last waterfall;
3. Fiber optics;
4. Tall cylinder with scattering liquid.
4/4/01 1. BB optics curved mirror;
2. Real image bulb.
4/6/01 1. Curved lens;
2. Joe's eye;
3. Microscope;
4. Prism;
5. Magnifier lens.
4/13/01 1. Ripple tank, single slit, double slit;
2. Laser double slit, single slit;
3. Laser disc of water waves.
4/16/01 1. Soap film interference;
2. Photoelectric effect;
3. 2 inc plate.
4/18/01 1. Sun bulb;
2. Atomic line spectrum H2,He;
3. Blackbody prism;
4. Sischel boxes.
4/20/01 1. Standing wave;
2. String and strobe;
3. Blacklights.
4/23/01 1. e-diffraction;
2. single photon DSI;
3. Laser w DSI.
4/25/01 1. Vibrating string;
2. Na emission;
3. Na absorption.