Lecture Demos

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Note the demos listed below are the top 200 PIRA demos and is outdated to our current department holdings.

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Mechanics

1A00.00- MEASUREMENT
1A10.20 - Standard Masses
1A10.30 - Standard Length
1A10.36 - Light Nanosecond
1A20.41 - Vernier Calipers
1A30.10 - XYZ Axes
1A40.00 - Vectors
1A50.00 - Math Topics
1A60.10 - Powers of Ten
1A60.40 - Scaling Cubes

1C00.00 -MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION
1C10.05 - Motion Detector
1C20.10 - Penny and Feather
1C30.00 - Measuring g

1D00.00- MOTION IN TWO DIMENSION
1D10.00 Displacement in Two Dimensions
1D15.00 Velocity, Position and Acceleration
1D40.00 Motion of the Center of Mass
1D50.10 Ball on String
1D50.40 Whirling Cup of water
1D52.00 Deformation by Central Forces
1D55.00 Centrifugal Escape
1D60.10 Howitzer and Tunnel
1D60.20 Simultaneous Fall
1D60.30 Monkey and Hunter
1D60.90 Mathematica Simulation

1E00.00- RELATIVE MOTION
1E10.00 – Moving Reference Frames
1E20.00 – Rotating Reference Frames
1E30.00 – Coriolis Effect

1F00.00- NEWTON’S FIRST LAW
1F10.00 – Measuring Inertia
1F20.00 – Inertia of Rest
1F30.00 – Inertia of Motion

1G00.00 - NEWTON'S SECOND LAW
1G10.00 – Force, Mass and Acceleration
1G10.40 - Atwood Machine
1G20.00 – Accelerated Reference Frames
1G30.00 – Complex Systems

1H00.00- NEWTON'S THIRD LAW
1H10.00 – Action and Reaction
1H11.00 – Recoil

1J00.00- STATICS OF RIGID BODIES
1J10.00 – Finding Center of Gravity
1J11.50 – Double Cone and Inclined Plane
1J20.00 – Stable, Unstable and Neutral Equilibrium
1J30.00 – Resolution of Forces
1J40.00 – Static Torque

1K00.00 - APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON'S LAWS
1K10.00 – Dynamic Torque
1K20.00 – Friction
1K30.00 – Pressure

1l00.00 - GRAVITY
1L10.00 – Universal Gravitational Constant
1L20.00 – Conic Sections

1M00.00- WORK AND ENERGY
1M10.00 – Work
1M20.00 – Simple Machines
1M30.00 – Non- Conservative Forces
1M40.00 – Conservation of Energy
1M40.20 - Loop The Loop
1M40.40 - Ballistic Pendulum
1M50.00 – Mechanical Power

1N00.00- LINEAR MOMENTUM AND COLLISIONS
1N10.00 – Impulse and Thrust
1N20.00 – Conservation of Linear Momentum
1N21.00 – Mass and Momentum Transfer
1N22.00 – Rockets
1N30.00 – Collisions in One Dimension
1N40.00 – Collisions in Two Dimensions

1Q00.00 - ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS
1Q20.00 – Rotational Energy
1Q30.00 – Transfer of Angular Momentum
1Q40.00 – Conservation of Angular Momentum
1Q40.10 - Rotating Platform and Weights
1Q40.15 - Rotating Stool and Long Bar
1Q40.30 - Rotating Stool and Bicycle Wheel
1Q50.00 – Gyros
1Q50.20 - Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
1Q60.00 – Rotational Stability

1R00.00- PROPERTIES OF MATTER
1R10.00 – Hooke’s Law
1R20.00 – Tensile and Compressive Stress
1R30.00 – Shear Stress
1R40.00 – Coefficient of Restitution
1R50.00 – Crystal Structure

Fluid Mechanics

2A00.00- SURFACE TENSION
2A10.00 – Force of Surface Tension
2A15.00 – Minimal Surface
2A20.00 – Capillary Action
2A30.00 – Surface Tension and Propulsion

2B00.00- STATICS OF FLUIDS
2B20.00 – Static Pressure
2B30.00 – Atmospheric Pressure
2B30.10 - Crush the Can
2B30.30 - Magdeburg Hemispheres
2B35.00 – Measuring Pressure
2B40.00 – Density and Buoyancy
2B40.10 - Weight Submerged Block
2B40.20 - Archimedes Principle
2B40.30 - Cartesian Diver
2B60.00 – Siphons, Fountains and Pumps

2C00.00- DYNAMIS OF FLUIDS
2C10.00 – Flow Rate
2C20.00 – Forces in Moving Fluids
2C20.30 - Floation Ball
2C20.35 - Funnel and Ball
2C30.00 – Viscosity
2C40.00 – Turbulent and Streamline Flow
2C50.00 – Vorticies
2C60.00 – Non Newtonian Fluids

Oscillations

3A00.00- OSCILLATIONS
3A10.10 – Simple Pendulum
3A15.10 – Physical Pendulum
3A20.00 – Springs and Oscillators
3A20.10 - Mass on a Spring
3A40.00 – Simple Harmonic Motion
3A40.10 - Circular Motion vs. Mass on a spring
3A40.20 - Circular Motion vs Pendulum
3A50.00 – Damped Oscillators
3A60.00 – Driven Mechanical Resonance
3A60.10 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge
3A70.10 - Wilberfore Pendulum
3A70.20 - Coupled Pendula
3A75.00 – Normal Modes
3A80.00 –
3A95.00 – Non-Linear Systems

3B00.00- WAVE MOTION
3B10.00 – Transverse Pulses and Waves
3B20.00 – Longitudinal Pulses and Waves
3B25.00 -

3B00.00 - COMPOUND WAVES
3B10.10 - Pulse on a Rope
3B25.00 – Wave Properties of Sound
3B30.30 - Bell in Vacuum
3B33.00 – Phase and Group Velocity
3B3500 – Reflection and Refraction (Sound)
3B39.00 – Transfer of Energy in Waves
3B40.00 – Doppler Effect
3B40.10 - Doppler Buzzer
3B45.00 – Shock Waves
3B50.00 – Interference and Diffraction
3B50.10 - Moire Pattern and Transparencies
3B55.00 – Interference AND Diffraction of Sound
3B60.00 – Beats
3B70.00 – Coupled Resonators

3C00.00 - ACOUSTICS
3C10.00 – The Ear
3C20.00- Pitch
3C30.00 – Intensity and Attenuation
3C40.00 – Architectural Acoustics
3C50.00 – Wave Analysis and Synthesis
3C55.00 – Music Perception and the Voice

3D00.00 - INSTRUMENTS
3D20.00 – Resonance in Strings
3D22.00 – Stringed Instruments
3D30.00 – Resonance Cavities
3D32.00 – Air Column Instruments
3D40.00 – Resonance in Plates, Bar, Solids
3D40.20 - Singing Rod
3D40.30 - Chladni Plate
3D46.00 – Tuning Forks
3D50.00 – Electronic Instruments

3E00.00 – SOUND REPRODUCTION
3E10.00 – Audio System
3E30.00 – Microphones
3E40.00 – Amplifiers
3E60.00 – Recorders
3E80.00 – Digital System

Thermodynamics

4A00.00- THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER
4A10.00 – Thermometry
4A20.00 – Liquid Expansion
4A30.00 – Solid Expansion
4A30.10- Bimetallic Strip
4A30.20 - Ball and Ring
4A40.00 – Properties of Materials at Low Temperature
4A50.00 – Liquid Helium

4B00.00- HEAT AND THE FIRST LAW
4B10.00 – Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
4B20.00 – Convection
4B20.10 - Convection Tube
4B30.00 – Conduction
4B31.30 - Drinking Bird
4B40.00 – Radiation
4B50.00 – Heat Transfer Applications
4B60.00 – Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
4B70.00 – Adiabatic Processes
4B70.10 - Fire Syringe

4C00.00 - CHANGE OF STATE
4C10.00 – PVT Surfaces
4C20.00 – Phase Changes: Liquid-Solid
4C30.00 – Phase Changes: Liquid-Gas
4C31.00 – Cooling by Evaporation
4C20.00 – Dew Point and Humidity
4C33.00 – Vapor Pressure
4C40.00 – Sublimation
4C45.00 – Phase Changes: Solid – Solid
4C50.00 – Critical Point

4D00.00 - KINETIC THEORY
4D10.00 – Brownian Motion
4D20.00 – Mean Free Path
4D20.10 - Crooke's Radiometer
4D30.00 – Kinetic Motion
4D40.00 – Molecular Dimensions
4D50.00 – Diffusion & Osmosis

4E00.00- GAS LAW
4E10.00 – Constant Pressure
4E10.20 - Balloons in Liquid Nitrogen
4E20.00 – Constant Temperature
4E30.00 – Constant Volume

4F00.00- ENTROPY AND THE SECOND LAW
4F10.00 – Entropy
4F30.00 – Heat Cycles
4F30.10 - Stiring Engine

Electricity and Magnetism

5A00.00- ELECTROSTATICS
5A10.00 – Producing Static Charge
5A10.10 - Rods and Fur
5A20.00 – Coulomb’s Law
5A20.20 - Pithballs
5A22.00 – Electrostatic Meters
5A30.00 – Conductors and Insulators
5A40.20 – Charge propelled cylinder
5A40.70 - Kelvin Water Dropper
5A50.00 – Electrostatic Machines
5A50.10 - The Wimshurst Machine
5A50.30 - Van der Graff Generator

5B00.00- ELECTRIC FIELDS AND POTENTIAL
5B10.401– Nakamura Electric Field Demo.
5B20.00 – Gauss’s Law
5B30.00 – Electrostatic Potential

5C00.00- CAPACITANCE
5C10.00 – Capacitors
5C20.00 – Dielectric
5C20.10 - Parallel Plate Capacitor with Dielectric
5C30.00 – Energy Stored in a Capacitor

5D00.00- RESISTANCE
5D10.00 – Resistance Characteristics
5D20.00 – Resistivity and Temperature
5D20.10 - Wire Coil in LN2
5D20.60 - Conduction in Glass
5D30.00 – Conduction in Solutions
5D40.00 – Conduction in Gases
5D40.10 - Jacob's Ladder

5E00.00- ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE AND CURRENT
5E20.00 – Electrolysis
5E30.00 – Plating
5E40.00 – Cells and Batteries
5E50.00 – Thermoelectricity
5E60.00 – Piezoelectricity

5F00.00 - DC CIRCUITS
5F10.00 – Ohm’s Law
5F10.10 - Ohm's Law
5F15.00 – Power and Energy
5F20.00 – Circuit Analysis
5F20.50 - Series and Parallel LIght Bulbs
5F30.00 – RC Circuits
5F30.10 - Capacitor and Light Bulb
5F40.00 – Instruments

5G00.00- MAGNETIC MATERIALS
5G10.00 – Magnetic Fields
5G20.00 – Magnet Domains & Magnetization
5G30.00 – Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism
5G30.10 - Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism
5G40.00 – Hysteresis
5G45.00 – Magnetostriction and Magnetorestistance
5G50.10 - Curie Point
5G50.50 – Meissner Effect

5H00.00- MAGNETIC FIELFS AND FORCES
5H10.00 – Magnetic Fields
5H15.00 – Fields and Currents
5H20.00 – Forces on Magnets
5H25.00 – Magnet/Electromagnet Interactions
5H30.00 – Force on Moving Charges
5H40.00 – Force on Current in Wires
5H50.00 – Torques

5J00.00 - INDUCTANCE
5J10.00 – Self Inductance
5J20.00 – LR Circuits
5J30.00 – RLC Circuits DC

5L00.00- AC CIRCUITS
5K10.00 – Induced Currents and Forces
5K10.10 - Sliding Rail
5K20.00 – Eddy Currents
5K30.00 – Transformers
5K40.00 – Motors and Generators

5M00.00- SEMICONDUCTORS AND TUBES
5M10.00 – Semiconductors
5M20.00 – Tubes

5N00.00- ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
5N10.00 – Transmission Lines and Antennas
5N20.00 – Tesla Coil
5N30.00 – Electromagnetic Spectrum

Optics

6A00.00- GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
6A01.00 – Speed of Light
6A02.00 – Straight Line Propagation
6A10.10 - Blackboard Optics: Plane Mirror
6A20.10 – Blackboard Optics: Curved Mirror
6A40.00 – Refractive Index
6A42.00 – Refraction at Flat Surfaces
6A44.00 – Total Internal Reflection
6A44.10 - Laser and Fiber Optics
6A46.00 – Rainbow
6A60.00 – Thin Lens
6A61.00 – Pinhole
6A65.00 – Thick Lens
6A70.00 – Optical Instruments

6B00.00 - PHOTOMETRY
6B10.00 – Luminosity
6B30.00 – Radiation Pressure
6B40.00 – Blackbodies

6C00.00 - DIFFRACTION
6C10.00 – Diffraction Through One Slit
6C20.00 – Diffraction Around Objects

6D00.00 - INTERFERENCE
6D10.00 – Interference From Two Sources
6D15.00 – Interference of Polarized Light
6D20.00 – Gratings
6D30.00 – Thin Films
6D30.10 - Newton's Rings
6D40.00 – Interferometers

6F00.00 - COLOR
6F10.00 – Synthesis and Analysis of Color
6F30.00 – Dispersion
6F40.00 – Scattering

6H00.00 - POLARIZATION
6H10.00 – Dichroic Polarization
6H10.10 - Polaroids on the Overhead
6H20.00 – Polarization by Reflection
6H20.10 - Brewster's Angle
6H30.00 – Circular Polarization
6H30.40 - Karo Syrup
6H35.00 – Birefringence
6H50.00 – Polarization by Scattering

6J00.00 - THE EYE
6J10.00 – The Eye
6J11.00 – Physiology

6Q00.00- MODERN PHYSICS
6Q10.00 – Holography
6Q20.00 – Physical Optics

Modern Physics

7A00.00- QUANTUM EFFECTS
7A10.00 – Photoelectric Effect
7A15.00 – Milikan Oil Drop
7A20.00 – Compton Effect
7A50.00 – Wave Mechanics
7A55.00 – Wave/Particle Duality
7A60.00 – X-ray and Electron Diffraction
7A70.00 – Condensed Matter

7B00.00- ATOMIC PHYSICS
7B10.00 – Spectra
7B11.00 – Absorption
7B13.00 – Resonance Radiation
7B20.00 – Fine Splitting
7B30.00 – Ionization Potential
7B35.00 – Electron Properties
7B50.00 – Atomic Models

7D00.00- NUCLEAR PHYSICS
7D10.00 – Radioactivity
7D20.00 – Nuclear Reactions
7D30.00 – Particle Detectors
7D40.00 – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
7D50.00 – Models of the Nucleus

7E00.00-ELEMENTARY PHYSICS
7E10.00 – Miscallaneous

7F00.00-RELATIVITY
7F10.00 – Special Relativity
7F20.00 – General Relativity

Astronomy

8A00.00- PLANETARY ASTRONOMY
8A05.00 – Historical Astronomy
8A10.00 – Solar System Mechanics
8A10.25 - Phases of the Moon
8A10.55 - Retrograde Motion Model
8A10.80 - Celestial Sphere
8A20.00 – Earth-Moon Mechanics
8A30.00 – Views From Earth
8A35.00 – Views From Earth-2
8A40.00 – Planetary Properties: Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps
8A50.00 – Planetary Properties -2: The Planets
8A60.00 – Planetary Properties – 3: Planetoids, Minor Objects
8A70.00 – Planetary Properties – 4: Planetary Characterstics
8A80.00 – Planetary Properties – 5: Comets and The Search For Life

8B00.00- STELLAR ASTRONOMY
8B10.00 – The Sun
8B20.00 – Stellar Spectra
8B30.00 – Stellar Evolution
8B40.10 – Black Holes Surface
8B40.20 - Membrane Table
8B50.00 – Stellar Miscellaneous

8C00.00- COSMOLOGY
8C10.10 – Expanding Universe
8C20.00 – Gravitational Effects

8D00.00- MISCELLANEOUS
8D10.00 – Miscellaneous Astronomy

8E00.00- ASTRONOMY TEACHING TECHNIQUES
8E30.00 – Techniques and Projects

Equipment

9A00.00- SUPPORT SYSTEMS/FACILITY
9A10.00 – Blackboard Tools
9A20.00 – Audio
9A30.00 – Slide Projectors
9A34.00 – Film Projectors
9A36.00 – Overhead Projectors
9A38.00 – Video & Computer Projection
9A40.00 – Photography
9A50.00 – X-Y, Chart Recorders
9A60.00 – Buildings
9A65.00 – Museums
9A70.00 – Resource Books
9A73.00 – Unclassified Demonstrations
9A75.00 – Philosophy
9A80.00 – Films
9A85.00 – Computer Programs

9B00.00- ELECTRONIC
9B10.00 – Timers
9B15.00 – Position and Velocity Detectors
9B17.00 – Sources of Sound
9B18.00 – Sound Detectors
9B20.00 – Circuits/Components/Instruments
9B30.00 – Function Generators
9B37.00 – Oscilloscopes
9B40.00 – Advanced Instruments
9B50.00 – Power Supplies
9B60.00 – Light Sources
9B61.00 – Light Paths Made Visible
9B62.00 – Lasers
9B65.00 – Microwave Apparatus
9B90.00 – Computer Interface

9C00.00- MECHANICAL
9C10.00 – Motors
9C20.00 – Pumps
9C25.00 – Vacuum
9C30.00 – Air Support
9C35.00 – Ripple Tank
9C40.00 - Other