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PHY 184 Recommended demos
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Wk  Topics and Demos

01  Electric Charge, Electric Fields
    - Two types of electric charge
    - Van de Graaff generator and wig
    - Wimshurst machine
    - Electric field lines
    - Pith balls inside a conducting cylinder
    - Faraday's ice pail
    - Faraday cage
    - Styrofoam shower

02  Electric Fields, Gauss' Law
    - Electrostatic induction: two charges from one
    - Polarizing water
    - Obedient ruler
    - Dipole models
    - Electrostatic ping-pong
    - Sharp conductor
    - Electric whirl
    - Cylindrical Gaussian surface model

03  Electric Potential
    - Rubber sheet potential model
    - Dipole models

04  Capacitance
    - Dissectable Leyden jar
    - Types of capacitors
    - Big spark
    - Parallel plate capacitor
    - Dielectrics

05  Current and Resistance
    - Electrostatic ping-pong
    - Marbles and nails model of resistance
    - Current in molten glass
    - Jacob's ladder
    - Potentiometers
    - Potential along a long wire
    - Ohm's law

06  Circuits
    - Series and parallel light bulbs
    - Wheatstone bridge
    - Time constant in an RC circuit
    - Lemon juice battery

07  Magnetic Fields
    - Compass needle, lodestone, magnets
    - Earth's magnetic field (model)
    - Overhead projector magnetic field lines
    - Compass needle array (ohp)
    - Walking the paper clip

08  Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
    - Oersted's experiment
    - Magnetic field from a current
    - Magnetic field of a solenoid
    - Picking up nails with a solenoid
    - Hanging coil in a magnetic field
    - Jumping wire
    - Parallel wires

09  Induction and Inductance
    - Coil, magnet and galvanometer
    - Wire cutting a magnetic field
    - Inductive seesaw
    - Energy bike: generating electricity
    - Genecons
    - Eddy current braking
    - Lenz's law pipes
    - Eddy current pennies
    - Jumping ring

10  Magnetism of Matter
    - Compass needle array (ohp)
    - Spatula in magnet
    - Reversing the poles
    - Picking up nails with a solenoid
    - Barkhausen effect
    - Curie point
    - Meissner effect

11  Electromagnetic Oscillations and AC
    - Induced light
    - Diode board
    - Switching paradox
    - Visual RLC resonance

12  Electromagnetic Waves
    - Spark radio
    - Radio in a Faraday cage
    - Inverse square model
    - Polaroid sun glasses
    - Scotch tape polarization
    - Polarmotion
    - Karo syrup polarization
    - Refraction tank
    - Broken finger
    - Total internal reflection rod
    - Fire water
    - Dispersion: prism and slide projector

13  Images
    - Arrows of reflection (model)
    - How tall a mirror ?
    - Angle mirrors
    - Concave and convex mirrors
    - Images in spherical mirrors
    - Magnifying and reducing glasses
    - Image from a simple lense
    - Edmund mirage
    - Human eye model

14  Interference
    - Bead board model of superposition
    - Interference patterns on overhead 
    - Meter stick model of interference
    - Newton's rings on overhead projector

15  Diffraction
    - Single and multiple slit diffractions
    - Hinged arrows and rubber tube models
    - Red and green diffraction
    - Shrinking mirror
    - Diffraction grating
    - Babinet's hair
    - Diffraction by a circular object (video)
    - Circular aperture
    - Continuous and discrete spectra
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