0030 Basic Physics
Valles, Jr.
MWF 11-11:50 AM
BH 166

Mon 9/5
Regular Meter stick
Historical standard meter stick
Metronome
Tennis ball
Pump up top
Pan Balance, masses to balance
1 Kg Mass

Fri 9/7
Soccer ball (or basketball)
Tennis ball
Short Dynamic track and cart to be bounced off the end of the track.

Mon 9/10
Laptop
galilean incline
tennis ball
bucket to slide across floor with a kick
tennis ball

Wed 9/12
Laptop
penny and feather
2 ball simultaneous fall
strings of beads
tennis ball

Friday 9/14
monkey and hunter
vertical billiards
Tennis Ball

Monday 9/17
Cork on a string
Disk on turntable
Howitzer
Car on a sheet

Wed 9/19
1. kik dis pucks (hovercraft thingy)
2. Zani mobiles Newton to pull one student, pull two students, also Newton scales
3. Inertia ball and string
4. Dynamic track and cart to push

Friday 9/21
The droppable scale
Rope, zani mobile and 100 N scale
Two zani mobiles and a rope
Acrobatic Astronauts: No initial movement. Play at start of class

Monday 9/24
Soccer ball
Inclined plane with two masses attached with a string that goes over a pulley
A Zani mobile and rope
Tug of war with bungy cord rope
Burning string

Wed 9-26
1) Inclined Dynamic track w pulley and two masses.
2) Cinder block and Newton scale friction.
3) Inlined board w brick, friction.protractor
4) Ring w cut, ring wo cut
5) BB mech pulley system
6) Puck and the turntable
7) Cork on a string
8) Block and Tackle

Fri 9-28
Tennis ball and the earth's gravitational field
Weight and the nail
Bowling Ball Pendulum
Cart and scale for dragging people along
Exercise ball

Mon 10/1
Three rails
Airtrack with a cart and spring
BB mech spring and two masses.

Wed 10/3
exam

Fri 10/5
Bowl Ball nose basher w head cam
Three tracks

Wed 10/10
1) Double well potential
2) Bowl Ball pendulum
3) airtrack, mass and 2 springs, horizontal oscillator.
4) oscillating spring and mass from ceiling, Bush Face.
5) Hillary & Bill (opposite) Board on a rope.

Fri 10/12
egg and sheet
Kik Dis pucks
Tennis ball
Soccer ball (415 g)

Mon 10/15
happy and sad balls,
two people carts,
Dynamic cart collisions on dynamic track

Wed 10/17
firecracker carts on airtrack
newton's cradle, meter stick clamped to hold balls back.
t-ball and b-ball
dynamic cart collisions on track

Friday 10/19
1) Center of Mass Throw Toy
2) air track and glider with pendulum
3) Bike wheel, mounted
5) BB mechanics Center of Mass shapes, including the map of the State of RI

Monday 10/22
6) Balance bird
4) Curious George
Moment Of Inertia wands (old style w visible weights)
Whirlygig
Ramp and wheel
Inclined dynamic track and dynamic cart
Moment Of Inertia Racing ball, disk, ring

Wed 10/24
sphere hoop disk props
Bicycle, bike stand.
meter stick
Atwoods machine

fri 10/26
jay tang
whirlygig
inertia ball, ring, disk rolling race
Bike wheel to roll across floor


Mon 10/29
incline w sphere
spool
Pump up toy top
Bike Wheel and motor only (no precession and no stool, will just show rolling)
motorized gyro

Wednesday Halloween:
Gyro
Precessing Bike Wheel
Stool and wheel, and hand weights
Hoberman

For Friday 11/2:
Bike wheel Precession
Acrobatic Astronauts
center of percussion
Wiffle ball and bat (his own)
pool cue and meter stick on floor
Faster than g

Mon 11/5
Hold a Meter Stick on fingers
Curious George
Lift the Professor
Slipping Ladder
Stacking Boards

Wed 11/7
Exam

Fri 11/9
Slipping Ladder
Cavendish video
Cav pendulum prop
static electricity pvc rod, fur, coke can

Mon 11/12
Martin orrery birds eye view
kepler video
bb ellipse device

Wed 11/14
Mass on a vertical spring
Mass between two springs on an airtrack
Tuning fork
Bouncing ball
Physical pendulum
oscillating Stick in water

Fri 11/16
Physical pendulum
Simple Pendulum synchronized with a ball on a turntable
Torsional oscillator
Mass on a vertical spring
Variety of Tuning forks

Mon 11-19
Damped tuning fork w wax on oscope.
Break the glass beaker with sound.
Simple Pendulum
Physical pendulum
Torsional oscillator
Stick in water
Hand held mass and spring
Long, grey pvc pole

Wed 11/21
No class

Mon 11/26/06
1) 55 gallon drum collapse.
2) Pressure depends on depth.
3) Hollow styrofoam float in fish tank, add weights and change depth.
4) Water parabola, vary to change pressure.

wed 11/28/06
pascals vases
pascal vase with connecting valve
archimedes principle w newton scale
toilet device
hose and black bin to siphon

Fri 11/30/06
Neckdown
Both William's devices (long and short) and cups for race.
Siphon (clear hose)
Aspirator (use dye, tygon hose)

Mon 12/3
1. Ripple Tank
2. Long Spring
3. Shive wave machine
4. Long wave machine

Wed 12/5
string
shive (by hand)
Long spring ( to show superposition)
Soap film interference
tuning fork beats
 

Friday, December 7
1. Buoyancy of air
2. Red Ball Express
3. Cork and string
4. Tilting blocks Three sizes
5. 3:2:1 elastic collisions
6. Torricelli tank
7. Broomstick