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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