Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
                           Tuesday, November 27, 2001
                4:10 P.M., Room 118 Physics-Astronomy Building


            (All students are encouraged to attend the colloquium)
                        Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

                           Demonstrations in Teaching
                        Can they be more than just fun?

                                   E. Kashy,
                        With the assistance of J. McIntyre
                Department of Physics and Astronomy, 11/27/2001


Experiments & Models to demonstrate and illustrate

Atwood Machines => problems 1 - 7

Statics: Suspended board, Flexible chain => problems 8 - 10

Force and Newton?s 2nd Law : The bungee jumpers => problems ?

Rigid body motion: oscillations, min period, rotation => problems 12-15, 19

Dropping the wine glass  => Essay

Galileo and the Leaning Tower => Essay (16)

Moving a coin with a magnet: Ni, Al => Essay

Gravity and Acceleration - Equivalence Principle => problem 17

Energy production in the Sun: Nuclear Fusion, Why No Cold Fusion??

Archimedes Principle and Buoyancy. => problems 18

Magnetic force on a thin steel blade

Conductivity and the Cold LED

Standing waves in a stretched string, Free at Both Ends? => problems

Temperature and the speed of sound, in air, in helium (organ pipe), etc..  => problems