Monday, September 4 (Labor Day)

Wednesday, September 6 (Introduction to the Course)

• Handouts
• Computer and display panels
• Classical and Modern Physics
• 4 1-kg masses

Monday, September 11  (Space, Time and Measurement)

• Meter stick and length standards
• Masses and balance scale
• Clock
• Metronome
• Spherical flask of liquid
• Balance scale (to weigh sphere)
• 4 1-kg masses

Wednesday, September 13 (1-D Motion)

• Rubber ball
• Ball of cotton
• Guinea and feather tube
• Acceleration track
• Crisp dollar bill (reaction time)

Monday, September 18 (Measurements and Vectors)

• Force board
• String and block
• Meter stick (reaction time)

Wednesday, September 20 (2-D Motion)

• Rubber ball
• Dropped and fired balls
• Ballistics car
• Water stream demo with protractor
• Monkey and hunter

Monday, September 25 (Laws of Motion)

• Bench computer on Internet with display panels
• Rubber ball
• 1 kg mass
• Beaker and cloth
• Pail of water
• Ball and cut string
• Air track
• Inertia ball
• Wood block
• Rope anchored in wall
  

Wednesday, September 27 (Circular Motion)

• Spring scale with mass
• Slide of coefficients of friction
• Block and string
• Inclined plane with blocks and carts
• Atwood Machine
• Ball on a string
• Conical pendulum
• Block on rotating table
• Object falling in viscous fluid

Monday, October 2 (Catch-up Lecture)

• No demos

Wednesday, October 4 (Review for Exam #1)

• No demos

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Monday, October 9 (Energy and Energy Transfer)

• Rubber ball
• Wood block
• Hooke's law
• Come-back can
• Ball rolling in troughs
• Weight-lifting machine (power demo)

Wednesday, October 11 (Potential Energy)

• Rubber ball
• Bowling ball pendulum
• Ball rolling in troughs
• Loop-the-loop
• Weight-lifting machine (power demo)
• 1-kg mass

Monday, October 16 (Linear Momentum and Collisions)

• Rubber ball
• Non-bouncing ball
• Air track
• Momentum balls
• Air table
• Water rocket
• CO₂ rocket
• Rotating platform with basketball and CO₂

Wednesday, October 18 (Rotation)

• Center-of-gravity boards
• Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
• Torque board
• Rolling chain
• Weight and axle
• Moving spool
• Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
• Yo-yos
• Rotating platform with barbells
• Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
• Objects rolling down inclined plane
• Rotating masses on pulleys

Monday, October 23 (Angular Momentum and Torque)

• Cylinder, sphere, disk, hoop samples
• Torque board
• Rolling chain
• Yo-yos
• Rotating platform with barbells
• Center-of-mass cone on inclined plane
• Loop-the-loop
• Objects rolling down inclined plane
• Ball on string
• Rotating masses on pulleys
• Barbells on rotating platform

Monday, October 25  (Static Equilibrium and Elasticity)

• Wooden block
• Rubber ball
• Leaning tower
• Deck of cards
• Seesaw
• Ladder against wall
• Horizontal string with weight at center
• Block and tackles
• Young's modulus

Monday, October 30 (Catch-up Lecture)

• No demos

Wednesday, November  1 (Review for Exam #2)

• No demos

• Weight of air
• Magdeburg hemispheres
• Manometer
• Archimedes principle
• Hydrolic press
• Bernoulli demo (pipe with flowing water)
• Bernoulli (levitated) ball
• Airfoils
• Venturi tube
• Aspirator
• Curve Ball
• Frisbee
• Toilet paper roll and air jet

• Mass on a spring (with dashpot)
• Simple pendulum
• Comparison with circular motion
• Physical pendulum
• Torsional pendulum
• Coupled pendula
• Wilberforce pendulum
• Driven pendulum or mass on spring
• Bowling ball and softball pendulums with timer

Monday, November  13 (Wave Motion)

• Multiple coupled pendula
• Rope anchored in wall
• Wave speed on a rope (index cards)
• Compressional wave demo (horizontal slinky)
• Torsional waves (horizontal and vertical)

Wednesday, November 15 (Sound Waves)

• PC
• Sound-level meter
• Speed of sound
• Doppler demo
• Doppler cassette recording of train whistle
• Bell in vacuum
• Tuning fork
• Flame pipe

Monday, November 18 (Superposition and Standing Waves)

• Interference of sound
• Driven wave on string with strobe lamp
• Open and closed organ pipes
• Beats with organ pipes and tuning forks
• Oscilloscope and microphone
• Sine and square waves, noise source (with speaker)
• Musical instruments

Wednesday, November 20 (Catch-up Lecture)

• No demos

Monday, November 27 (Review for Exam #3)

• No demos

Wednesday, November 29 (Temperature)

• Classical and Modern Physics posters
• Examples of thermometers
• Thermal expansion demos
• PVT surface of ideal gas
• Piston

Monday, December 4  (Heat and 1st Law of Thermodynamics)

• Mechanical equivalence of heat
• Freezing by evaporation
• Thermal conductivity
• Heat convection (candle)
• Heat radiation (parabolic mirrors)

Wednesday, December 6 (Kinetic Theory)

• Kinetic theory simulator (ball bearings)
• Kinetic theory demonstrator (Mercury tube)
• Variation of sound speed with temperature (?)
• Balloon

Monday, December 11 (Second Law of Thermodynamics)

• Automobile engine model
• Carnot cycle model
• Sterling engine
• Tornado bottle

Wednesday, December 13 (Review for final)

• No demos