Physics 10, Spring 2005

Leon Cooper

thu 2/10
torque bike wheel, motor, stool,
Gyro
puck and platter
Gyro briefcase
Bike wheel precession
Torque bar
Torque beam
air frictionless ball

Thu 2/24
Show Energy
Show Potential to Kinetic energy
1) Simple pendulum
2) Bike Generator
3) Fuel cell
4) Loop the loop.
5) Mechanical equivalent of heat.
6) DC motor
7) Airtrack and glider w springs.

Tue 3/1
Unmixing

Thu 3/3
Superposition- Long spring, laser disc
Refraction/reflection with BB optics mirror, refraction tank.
Rainbow prism.
Light beam travels in straight lines with BB optics.
Long wave machine impedance matching.

Tue 3/8
no class

Thu 3/10
1. Interference of sound.
2. Ripple tank single, double
3. Laser disc of ripple tank
4. Laser Poisson's spot, single, adj single, double, diff grating,

Tue 3/15
Standing waves on a vibrating string.
Handout gratings (both bad quality and good quality), H2, He, Ne spectra
Laser spot on OHP screen, students to look through fingers and "pinch" interference, take photo.
Monochord
Rick G's Mechanical two slit striped ropes.

Thu 3/17
rods and Pasco Electroscope
Wimsy
VdG
Coil, magnet, galvo
Nib in tube.
Lodestone
Pick up nails
Jumping wire
Bike Generator

Tue. 3/22
RF dipole xmtr and rcvr
Microwave xmtr
Polaroids on OHP
Java Simulation of Polarized E&M Plane wave propagation
Bees eye?
IR parabolics?
Spectrometer, energy in UV and IR?

Thu. 3/24
Tesla Coil
Double slit w microwaves
Tuning cap, show tuned LC tank.

Tue 4/5
Wein's Law, prism
Sun bulb on a variac
Crookes' and magnet
Nakamura CRT and elelectric field.

Note: Show him the PHYWE Maxwell velocity distribution after class.

Thu 4/7
Rutherford atom video (mpeg)
Plum pudding v. bohr atom
note: show him Maxwell velocity distribution.
Take Tipler Mod Phy book to discuss history of jj thompson and cathode rays.

Tue 4/12
No demo.
Oscar Eustis.

Thu 4/14
print out 15 periodic tables and hand them to Leon.
Single Photon.
laser double slits.
Electron Diffraction.

Tue 4/19
No demo.

Thu 4/21
Ping Pong Clatterer (electric field)

Done for Semester!