Fall 2006 Phy 27 G. Tucker

wed 3-5 PM
Room 166

jay leno video (His PC)
powers of ten (His PC))
starry nights (His PC)
Phases of the Moon
Precession of the equinoxes
celestial sphere

He will want to test out everything on wednesday.

wed 9/13
Airtrack and cart.
dynamic track, cart, weights
Zani mobiles and rope
Celestial sphere - big one.
Donut-o-pault
BB ellipse drawing device
Rotating stool and weights and/or Hoberman sphere.
Ian's Kepler video edits

Wed 9/20
Hoberman sphere
Rotating stool and weights
(I forgot to do the two demos above last time. Sigh.)
Photoelectric effect with 1P39 tube
Ocean Optics Spectrometer (blackbody on variac, laser, LED)
Hydrogen tube spectrum
Sodium light spectrum (to show absorption)
Single slit and double slit.
Doppler buzzer
Rutherford video

Wed 9/27
Rayleigh scattering w polaroid
Refraction tank
Diffraction grating on OHP
BB optics 2 convex lenses to make refractor, curved mirror, flat mirror

Wed 10/4
1 Atmosphere lifting plate
Magdeburg spheres
Convection square
Greenhouse effect
Iron filings and permanent magnet
Iron filings and wire
Cartesian diver
Balloons - for hydrostatic equilibrium demo
Craters
rotating bands

Wed 10/11
Cratering
Meteorites
Solar surface convection
Limb darkening
What is the mousetrap movie.
sunsponts on overhead projector.

Wed 10/18
Throw toy for center of mass
1/r^2 light intensity
10 Watt and 100 Watt lamps

Wednesday Octboer 25:
None - midterm exam

Wed 11/1
His edits from Supernova 1987a.
CUPSAS stellar evolution
55 gallon supernova
Ignition compression flash tube

Wed 11/8
basket ball and tennis ball
equivalence principle, magnet version
pulsar model with two LEDs on the Hoberman Sphere
curved space bucket
curved space sheet? Ask!!
millisecond pulsar- Photodetector aimed at flourescent lights and displayed on an oscilloscope
Videos

Wed 11/15
Grav Lens (to show microlensing)
Spin flip (to show HI transition)

Wed 11/22
no class. Thanksgiving.

Wed 11/29
expanding universe balloon, flexible measuring tape.
complete cosmos, "The expanding Universe".
Leon's Triangle


Wed 12/6
FMG
Ians edits from seti 45 minutes