0050 Foundations of Mechanics
Narain MW 8:30-9:50 AM
BH 166

Wed 9/5
1. Historic meter stick, regular meter stick
2. 1 Newton mass, 1 Kg mass, pan balance
3. Aquarium tank and density objects
4. Metronome and clock
5. Long air track and 1 glider, strobe 1 Hz;
6. Dynamic track, 1 cart, masses.
7. Tennis ball
8. Laptop, www, audio


Mon 9/10
PRS!!
Second screen and projector?
Info on Nasa coin and feather (Launch, date, etc.)
1) If you have the ILD we talked about last week ready - that would be one thing I could do for the lecture.
2) Feather and farthing
3) Drop String of beads with uniform /non-uniform spacing
4) inclined dynamic track and dynamic cart with extra masses. Add masses to show that acceleration downhill is independant of mass. Large clock.
5) Galileo's Incline and metronome.
6) tennis ball
7) Nasa video man on moon drops hammer and feather.

Note Meet Mon 3:15 PM and Wed 10:15 AM to discuss demos.

Wednesday 9/12
PRS
a) Magnetic BB vectors
b) Cartesian vecors on floor, shadow project
c) the howitzer on the dynamic track
d) the two ball fall
e) the tennis ball

Mon 9/17
PRS
The water parabola
Howitzer
two ball fall
Monkey and Hunter
Tennis ball

Wed 9/19
PRS
Vertical Billiards
Truck and sheet
Platter and puck
Lanou Device
relativity snipet

Dear Jerry,

Next week I would like to do the following demos (taken from Partridges
list).
I am not sure about the stuff in the middle 8-10 if I need this for
Monday or wednesday..
so if they are not too compleicated and we can set it up for Monday -
that would be helpful.
also, i would like to use the ILD on the forces on Wednesday next week
I will come by at 10:40am tomorrow.

Monday: 9/24
1. airtrack and glider.
2. inertia ball and one string.
3. Spring scale and mass.
4. Dynamic cart with pulley and masses
5. Zani carts
6. Airtrack glider with projectile launcher.
7. Foucault
8. Inertial and Non-inertial ref frames, (ball goes straight when viewed while
stationary, ball curves when viewed while rotating) Slow not slow mo.avi and Rotate on one 02.avi. See Platform at rest .doc

Wednesday: 9/26
- black board mechanics
- Normal Force
- Static equilibrium on an incline plane.
- inclined dynamic track and cart
- Atwood
- ILD2 Force, velocity, position.
- PRS

Mon 10-1
PRS
· Leaf blower on a variac, beach ball, tennis ball, sand-filled tennis ball.
· Pulling block, lock and unlock wheels
· Puck on a tilting board
· Terminal velocity and metronome
· Microscope slides
· dry Mop
· Cork on a string
· Bubble on OHP
· Ring with cut
· Bucket of water
· Loop the loop

Wed 10-3
exam

Mon 10-8
Columbus

Wed 10-10
· Loop the Loop
· Bucket of water
· Pile Driver
· Tennis Ball to Toss
· Brick to carry
. BB mechanics Pulley #15
. Block and Tackle.
. New ball launcher ramp
. Racing Balls

Mon 10/15
· ILD3 energy graphs of Spring loaded Dynamic cart up incline
· Series and parallel springs
· Stiff spring and force scale
· airtrack, glider, one spring or two springs
· 3 rails
· tennis ball
· Bike generator and light bulbs
maybe:
* nose basher
* Potential well track
* Airtrack glider and sliding of mass

Wed 10/17
* nose basher
* Potential well track
* Airtrack glider and sliding mass
ILD3
3 rails

Mon 10/22
• Friction with Tilted Airtrack and glider with sliding mass
• Lead shot and thermometer
• air track double pendulum glider
• com objects

Wed 10/24
COM State of RI
COM dog Toy
happy and sad balls
Walk in a canoe, heavy throw object
spring apart two dynamic carts, masses
Impulse egg and sheet
impulse water balloon
impulse baseball bat and ball
Basketball and tennis ball
elastic collisions on dynamic track

Mon 10/29
1) inelastic collisions on dynamic track
2) Newton's cradle
3) firecracker sandwich with equal and unequal gliders.

Mon 10/29
Newtons cradle
Dynamic carts inelastic, masses.
firecracker sandwich
Red ball express
water rcoket
Ballistic pendulum

wed 10/31
kick dis pucks for 2-d collisions
Colored block to rotate
Rotating Skew rod
parallel axis theorem
sledgehammer
Racing Ball. ring, disk
· MOI Moment of inertia bars, both types
· simple bike wheel with handles and two marks opposite

mon 11/5
dave to lecture
prs
Parallel axis
Falling ladder
top
Heavy wheel as a pulley
Torque bar.
Whirlygig
Walk the spool
Yoyo
Faster than g

Fri Nov. 9 exam


Mon 11/12
1) Ball balanced on a spherical surface, and inside a sphere to show stability: Use 1/2 a VdG dome.
2) Tipping block and board
3) Balance bird
4) Curious George
5) Feeble disk
6) Walk the plank
7) Wine Butler
Slipping Ladder
Stacking boards
3 strings
blugle horn for tension and compression
crossed polaroids and stress strain device

Wed 11/14
Wine Butler
Slipping Ladder
Stacking boards
Ian's Kepler edits
Hank's Retrograde motion apparatus
BB ellipse
Martin Orrery

Mon 11-19
Cavendish movie
Cavendish model
General Relativity video
Air track and oscillating glider
Torsion oscillator,
Physical pendulum,
Simple pendulum,
vertical mass and spring,
ball in water,
stick in water
Sine Wave on oscilloscope

Note see ILD4 for next week

Monday 11/26
1. ILD SHM
2. Torsion oscillator
3. Eddy current hysical pendulum, damp with magnet.
4. Sine Wave on oscilloscope,
5. SHM is UCM simple pendulum and rotating turntable.
6. Damped and undamped tuning fork,
7. variac, air track, oscillating glider with springs.

11/28 Wednesday
1. Beaker Breaker
2. Resonance spring
3. Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse video
4. 55 gallon supernova
5. Buoyant force PVC cylinder and Newton scale
6. Buoyant force floating plastic container in a fish tank
7. Pascal’s shaped vases
8. Depth gauge and u-tube manometer


Monday 12/3
1. Pascal's Vase
2. Density blocks, Coke, Diet Coke
3. Buoyancy of air
4. Cartesian divers
5. Bernoulli Beach Ball Blower
6. Faucet Neckdown

Wednesday December 5
1. Aspirator
2. Toricelli Tank
3. Toilet Device
4. Venturi Tube (if repaired)
5. Chaotic Pendulum
6. Bernoulli beach ball