Mechanics
Motion in One Dimension
Relative Motion (Water balloon dropped from constant velocity car; lab and car frame)
Uniform Acceleration: Penny and Feather
Penny and Feather Free Fall without Air Resistance (UT version)
Penny and Feather Free Fall with Air Resistance (UT version)
Motion in Two Dimensions
Motion of the Center of Mass: Throw Objects
Central Forces: Conical Pendulum Animation
Central Forces: Pail of Nails
Aquarium on Turntable (slow motion at end is best; contrasts inertial vs non-inertial frames)
Projectile Motion: Howitzer and Tunnel ; UT version
Car crossing treadmill (long video just use parts)
Free Fall vs. Free Fall with Horizontal Velocity (UT version)
Projectile Motion: Monkey gun ; UT version
Newton's First Law
Egg drop demo of Newton’s 1st Law
Inertia of Rest: Smash block on Bed of Nails
Newton's Second Law
Newton’s 2nd law in space (particularly like demo with different mass balls in zero-g)
Force, Mass, and Acceleration: Atwood's Machine
Newton's Third Law
Skateboards with Two People (UT version)
Skateboards with Three People (UT version)
Newton’s 3rd law: Toy car exerts force on surface that can roll (cardboard on top of marbles)
Recoil: LN2 cannon
Statics of Rigid Bodies
Motion of the Center of Mass: Throw Objects
5 Physics Party tricks (center of mass, pressure, buoyancy)
Finding Center of Gravity (end has finding center of gravity)
Exceeding Center of Gravity: Tower of Lire
Exceeding Center of Gravity: Block Stacking in L shape
Resolution of Forces: Rope and Three Students
Applications of Newton's Laws
Dynamic Torque: Ladder Against the Wall
Dynamic Torque: Walking the Spool
Friction: Area Dependence of Friction
Pressure: Bed of Nails (UT version)
Work and Energy
Conservation of Energy: Nose Basher (UT version)
Conservation of Energy: Ballistic Pendulum (UT version)
Linear Momentum and Collisions
Impulse and Thrust: Egg in Sheet
Medicine Ball Catch and Throw on Skateboard (UT version)
Conservation of Momentum: Stacked Balls Drop
Conservation of Momentum in space
Conservation of Momentum: Ballistic Pendulum (UT version)
Collisions in One Dimension: 3m hits 1m (UT Favorite)
Collisions in One Dimension: 1m hits 3m Balls (UT Favorite)
Collisions in One Dimension: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions on the PASCO carts
Rotational Dynamics
Tightrope Wedding (Balancing Sticks)
Rotational Inertia: Snapping of paper from toilet paper roll
Moment of Inertia: Racing Soups
Conservation of Angular Momentum: Rotating Stool & Bicycle Wheel (UT version) ; (NCSU version is shorter)
Conservation of Angular Momentum in space
Gyroscopes: Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
Toy Gyroscope in Box and other tricks
Properties of Matter
Hooke's Law: Stretching a Spring
PIRA 1R20.15 - Tensile and Comprehensive Stress: Young's Modulus
PIRA 1R40.30 Coefficient of Restitution: Dead and Live Balls
Fluid Mechanics
5 Physics Party tricks (center of mass, pressure, buoyancy)
Static Pressure: Pressure vs. Depth
Static Pressure: Pascal's Vases
Hydraulic press crushing marbles
Air Pressure: Crush a 55 gallon drum
Atmospheric Pressure: Magdeburg Hemispheres
Atmospheric Pressure: Lift A Stool
2B40.20 Density and Buoyancy: Archimedes' Principle
2B40.30 Density and Buoyancy: Cartesian Diver
Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics - Demo - Floating a Ping Pong Ball using a Hairdryer
Bernoulli Force: Lifting a Paper
Viscosity: biodiesel, Glycerin, vegetable oil
Oscillations and Waves
Pendula: Simple Pendulum
Pendula: Torsion Pendulum
Springs: Mass on a Spring
Driven Mechanical Resonance: Barton's Pendula
Driven Mechanical Resonance: Resonance Reeds
Coupled Oscillations: Spring Coupled Pendula
Coupled Oscillations: Wilberforce Pendulum
Double pendulum (chaotic motion)
Waves
Wave Machine (National STEM Center)
Longitudinal wave: Slinky (in slow motion)
Cracking Fire Whip (in slow motion)
Standing Waves: String
Doppler Effect: Passing Train
Doppler effect and shockwaves in ripple tank
Tuning Forks (collection: coupled, beats, etc.)
Ruben’s Flame tube (resonance in air column; shows positions of high and low pressure)
Resonance in Plates, Bars, and Solid: Singing Rod
Resonance in Plates, Bars, and Solids: Chladni Plates
Thermodynamics
Linear expansion of a metal rod
4A30.10 Solid Expansion: Bimetal Strip
4A30.20 Solid Expansion: Ball and Ring
Plastic bell at LN2 temperature
Heat and the First Law
Convection: Convection Tube with Water
Phase Changes: Freezing Liquid Nitrogen
Kinetic Theory
Kinetic Theory Demonstration with plastic golf balls
Gas Law
Constant Pressure: Balloons in Liquid Nitrogen
Boyle’s Law with balloon and syringe
Constant Temperature: Balloon in a Vacuum
Electricity and Magnetism
Static charges: rods, fur, and pith balls
Static charges: tinsel and balloon
Induced Charge: Charge Propelled Cylinder
Induced Charge: Spinning Soda Can
Induced Charge: Kelvin Water Drop Generator (video, simulation)
Closeup of charged water droplets orbiting cylinder
Electrostatic Machines: Wimshurst Machine
Comprehensive Collection of Van de Graaff Generator Demos (long video; I just use parts)
10 ways to “see” the electric field (long video; I just use parts)
Capacitors : Parallel Plate Capacitor with dielectric (I just use beginning)
Energy Stored in a Capacitor: Short a Capacitor (with screwdriver) ; another video (vaporizing wire)
Resistivity and temperature: wire coil in LN2
Conduction in Solutions: Conductivity of Solutions
Conduction in Gases: Jacob's Ladder
Circuit Analysis: Series and Parallel Light Bulbs (just use middle where light bulbs light up); UT version
RC Circuits: Capacitor and a Light Bulb (Decay curve on scope)
Magnetism
Temperature and Magnetism: Meissner Effect using Liquid Nitrogen
Superconductor Meissner Effect and Flux Pinning
Magnetic Fields: Oersted's Effect ; UT version
Magnetic field of coils and solenoid
Magnetic Dip Needle (demo near middle)
Magnetic Fields: Bar Magnet iron filings ; Bar magnet 3D modeler (also horseshoe)
Forces on Moving Charges: Open CRT
Forces on Moving Charges: e/m Tube
Forces on Currents in Wires: Parallel Wires
Forces on Current in Wires: Jumping Wire
Induced Currents and Forces: World’s simplest electric train
Induced Currents: Magnet inserted into coils
Eddy Currents: Eddy Current Pendulum
Eddy Currents: Magnets and Tubes
Eddy Currents: Jumping Ring
RLC Circuits AC: RLC - Resonance
Electromagnetic Radiation
Transmission Line and Antennas: Radiation from a Dipole
Geometric Optics
Law of Refraction ; UT version
Total Internal Reflection ; UT version
Total Internal Reflection: fiber
Total Internal Reflection: Laser waterfall
Physical Optics
Diffraction Through a Single Slit and Double Slits (circular not so good)
Diffraction through circular apertures
Thin Films: Soap Film Interference
Interferometers: Michelson Interferometer
Modern Physics
Electron Diffraction (just use small part with good view of rings)
Spectra: Atomic and Molecular Spectra
Absorption Spectrum of Sodium-seeded flame