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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