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PHY 231 Recommended demos
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Wk  Topics and Demos

01  Units and Measurements
    - Basic metric units
    - Coordinate system
    - Powers of ten (video)

02  Motion in One Dimension
    - Frames of reference (video)
    - Constant velocity motion on the air track
    - Uniform acceleration on the air track
    - Sound of constant acceleration
    - Feather and coin

03  Motion in Two Dimensions
    - Handheld vectors
    - Pop and drop
    - Ballistic cart
    - Shoot the monkey
    - Racing balls

04  Newton's Laws, Force and Motion
    - Newton's first law
    - Newton's second law
    - Newton's third law
    - Broken hand
    - Bungee jumpers
    - Sliding block
    - Dragging the box
    - Angle of repose

05  Kinetic Energy, Work and Power
    - Lifting weight
    - Piledriver
    - Racing ball (single)
    - Saving face
    - Jumping spider
    - Energy bike: work and power

06  Momentum and Collisions
    - Time of elastic collision
    - Inelastic collision of velcro carts on air track
    - Ballistic pendulum
    - Newton's balls
    - Ninja balls
    - Elastic collision of unequal (3:1) masses
    - Coefficient of restitution
    - Superball and clayball

07  Circular Motion
    - Rotating cylinder
    - Radians
    - Whirligig
    - Leaving circular orbit (ohp)
    - Conical pendulum
    - Loop the loop
    - Newton and apple (video)
    - Cavendish balance
    - Drawing an ellipse

08  Rotation
    - Where's the doorknob?
    - Short and long wrench
    - Irregular shape
    - Leaning towers
    - Hanging hammer
    - Mystery batons
    - Rotating weights
    - Bicycle wheel
    - The stranded demonstrator
    - Rotating chair and throwing weights around
    - Spinning skater
    - Rotating chair and bicycle wheel
    - Rotating chair and double bicycle wheel
    - Hanging bicycle wheel

09  Solids, Liquids and Gases
    - Archimedes' principle: wet
    - Hydrometer
    - Archimedes' principle: dry
    - Barometer
    - Magdeburg hemispheres
    - Hydraulic press
    - Venturi tube
    - Bernoulli plate
    - Bernoulli cart
    - Rising ball
    - Moving cans
    - Spinning cup

10  Temperature
    - Types of thermometers
    - Linear thermal expansion and contraction
    - Bimetallic strip
    - Ball and ring
    - Liquid nitrogen and air balloon

11  Heat and Thermal Energy
    - Specific heat
    - Dropping nails
    - Thermal convection in air
    - Thermal convection in liquids
    - Absorption of radiation
    - Transmission of infrared radiation
  
12  Thermodynamics
    - Energy bike: heat equivalent of work
    - Cold cannon
    - Pressure as a function of temperature
    - Pressure as a function of volume
    - Fire syringe
    - Stirling engine
    - Maxwell's demon

13  Vibrations and Waves
    - Hooke's law
    - Mass and spring
    - Simple harmonic motion on the air track
    - Circular motion projection (ohp)
    - Ceiling pendulum
    - Weighted hose
    - Slinky

14  Waves, Sound
    - Transversal wave machine
    - Longitudinal wave machine
    - Bead board model of superposition
    - Sine wave through a slot
    - Bell in vacuum
    - Decibels
    - Frequency and the limits of audibility

15  Sound
    - Doppler effect
    - Wave open at one end
    - Speed of sound
    - Stroke rod
    - Tacoma bridge (video)
    - Beat box
    - Human ear model
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