Demonstration Resource

Swarthmore College Physics and Astronomy Department

Newton's First Law

• Inertia Tablecloth
• Smash Your Hand
• Pen, Hoop & Bottle
• Blackboard Mechanics
• Ballistic Cart
• Hover Craft
• Hover Pucks

Newton's Second Law

• Force Plates
• Hover Craft
• Hover Pucks
• Visual Accelerometer
• Cart and hanging mass

Newton's Third Law

• Fan Cart
• Tug-o-War
• Hover Craft
• Blackboard Mechanics
• Force Plates
• Back-to-back carts

Statics of Rigid Bodies

• Hanging Shapes
• Overhang Blocks
• Double Cone on Incline
• Block on Cylinder
• Torque & Equilibrium
• Blackboard Mechanics

Friction

• Turntable
• Race Track
• Blackboard Mechanics

• Spring Loaded Cart
• High/Low Road
• Force Plates
• Hover Craft
• Loop the Loop
• Coaster Track
• Astro-Blaster
• Transformation of Energy Balls

Linear Momentum

• Astro-Blaster
• Newton's Cradle
• Water Rocket
• Hover Craft
• Hover Pucks

• Inertia Wands
• Moment of Inertia Race
• Loop the Loop
• Rotating Stool
• Hoberman Sphere
• Bike Wheel Gyro
• Variable Inertia Disks

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• Magdeburg Plates
• Franklin's Flask
• Cloud Forming Tube
• Kubic Bubbles
• The Bead Drop
• Terminal Velocity
• Differential Pressure Bottle

• Visual Accelerometer
• Flame Accelerometer
• Water Accelerometer
• Spring Loaded Cart
• High/Low Road
• Penny & Feather
• Drop Time

Relative Motion

• Crossing the river
• Hover Pucks
• Ballistic Cart
• Coriolis Gun

• Van de Graaff Gen.
• Kelvin Water Dropper
• Wimshurst Gen.
• Charge and Pivot
• Electroscope
• Faraday Ice Pail
• Charge on Conductor
• Coulomb Apparatus
• Electrophorus

Electric Fields and Potential

• Faraday Cage
• Van de Graaff Gen.

Capacitance

• Leyden Jar
• Capacitor Discharge
• Energy in Capacitor
• Wimshurst Gen.

Electromotive Force and Current

• Lemon Battery
• Photovoltaic Cell
• Hand-Crank Generators
• Lights in Series and in Parallel
• Human Battery

Magnetic Materials

• Magnetic Domains
• Diamagnetic Levitation
• Paramagnetism of LOx

Magnetic Fields and Forces

• B-field of Current
• Field around Current
• B-field Demonstrators
• Current Balance
• e-beam in Bfield
• Dip Needle
• Parallel Currents
• Magnetic Torque
• Ion Motor
• Meissner Effect
• Force on Wire

Electromagnetic Induction

• Wire loop in B-field
• Current in Solenoid
• Induction Pendulum
• Magnet and Solenoid
• Crude Generator and Motor
• Induction Firefly
• Induction Light-tube
• Jumping Ring
• Rolling Magnet
• Lenz's Law Pendulum
• Lenz's Law Plate
• Lenz's Law Pipe
• Mutual Induction
• Induction Boxes
• Back EMF Spark

Electromagnetic Radiation

• Microwave Optics
• Prisms

Miscellaneous

• Transmission Speed
• Tesla Coil
• Glowing Pickle
• Guitar Pickups
• Magnetizer

Miscellaneous

• Transformation of Energy Balls
• Sterling Engine
• Change-of-state Energy
• Radiometer
• Ball and Ring
• Thermoelectric Motor
• Unequal Expansion Bar
• Franklin's Flask
• Magdeburg Plates
• Gas Law / Heat Engine
• Specfic Heat
• Random Walk
• Stefan-Boltzman Lamp
• Density Ball
• Franklin's Palm Glass
• Fire Syringe

• 1/d^2 Dependence
• Photovoltaic Cell

Diffraction

• Index of Refraction
• Ripple Tank
• DVD Diffraction
• Microwave Optics
• Water Optics
• Diffraction of light
• Atomic Spectra

Interference

• Two-Slit Interference
• Thin Film Interference
• Air Wedge
• Interference Filters
• Ripple Tank

Color

• Spectroscopes
• Prisms
• Scattering Sunset
• Color Filters

Polarization

• Polarizers
• Birefringence & Optical Activity
• Barber Pole
• Optical Rotation Bowl

Quantum Effects

• Wave on Loop
• Two-Slit Interference
• Stern-Gerlach Demo
• Quantum Sox

Atomic Physics

• Atomic Spectra
• Plasma Lamp
• Plasma Tube
• Blacklight
• White / Mercury Lamp

Nuclear Physics

• Coud Chamber

Relativity

• Lorentz Transformation Model
• Gravity Lens
• Space-Time Curvature Model

Astronomy Related

• Solar Energy Outflow
• Solar Motion
• Eclipse Viewers
• Parallax Demo
• Sunspottter
• Galaxy Model
• Sun, Earth, Moon
• Celestial Globe
• Moon Globe