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Mechanics

  • 1. Mechanics
    • 1A Measurements
      • 1A20 Error and Accuracy
        • 01 Hooke’s Law
      • 1A40 Vectors
        • 01 Cross Product
    • 1D motion in two dimensions
      • 1D40 Motion of the Center of Mass
        • 01 Centre of Mass
        • 02 Centre of Rotation
        • 03 Student’s Centre of Mass
        • 03 Explosion
      • 1D50 Central Forces
        • 01 Going Round in Circles
        • 02 Conical Pendulum
        • 03 Centripetal Force
        • 04 Force Field
    • 1E relative motion
      • 1E10 Moving Reference Frames
        • 01 Super Balls, Double Ball Drop
        • 02 Galilean Cart
        • 03 Shoot and Catch
      • 1E20 Rotating Reference Frames
        • 01 Coriolis
        • 02 Coriolis (1a)
        • 03 Coriolis (1b)
        • 04 Coriolis Merry-go-Round
        • 05 Coriolis (3)
        • 06 Rotating Liquid
      • 1E30 Coriolis Effect
        • 05 Coriolis (3)
        • 01 Cross Product
    • 1F newton’s first law
      • 1F20 Inertia of Rest
        • 01 Tablecloth Pull
        • 02 Newton’s Hammer
        • 03 Not Breaking a Wineglass
      • 1F30 Inertia of Motion
        • 01 Galileo’s Thoughts
        • 02 Walk and Ball
    • 1G newton’s second law
      • 1G10 Force, Mass, and Acceleration
        • 01 Throwing Eggs
        • 02 Bungee Jumper
        • 03 Pulling a Thread
    • 1H newton’s third law
      • 1H10 Action and Reaction
        • 01 Who is the Strongest in a Collision?
        • 02 Who is Pulling?
        • 03 Trying Hard to Pull Differently
        • 04 Bottle Rocket
        • 05 Magnet Symmetry
        • 06 Recoil of a Water Jet
        • 07 Strong Magnet, Weak Paperclip
    • 1J statics of rigid bodies
      • 1J20 Stable, Unstable and Neut. Equilibrium
        • 01 Equilibrium and Potential Energy
      • 1J30 Resolution of Forces
        • 01 Strong Professor (Weak Students)
    • 1K applications of newton’s laws
      • 1K10 Dynamic Torque
        • 01 Pulling a Spool
        • 02 Boomerang Ball (1)
        • 03 Boomerang Ball (2)
        • 04 Falling Stick
        • 05 Throwing a Basketball
      • 1K20 Friction
        • 01 Braking
        • 02 Phonebook Friction
        • 04 Falling Stick
        • 05 Throwing a Basketball
        • 06 Chain Friction
        • 07 Moving Two Fingers under a Meterstick
        • 08 No Tipping Allowed
        • 09 Pulling a Sliding Block
        • 10 Rolling Up-and-Down, Again and Again
        • 11 Rope on a Table
        • 12 Sliding Towel
    • 1L gravity
      • 1L10 Universal Gravitational Constant
        • 01 Weighing the Earth
      • 1L20 Orbits
        • 01 Kepler’s Second Law
        • 02 Kepler’s Third Law
        • 03 Precessing Orbit (1)
    • 1M work and energy
      • 1M10 Work
        • 01 How much Work to Break a Soup Tureen?
      • 1M40 Conservation of Energy
        • 01 Gauss’ Rifle
        • 02 Kinetic Energy in an Elastic Collision
        • 03 Mortar
        • 04 Galileo’s Pendulum
        • 05 Pendulum of Death
        • 01 Dropping Rolls of Toilet Paper
    • 1N linear momentum and collisions
      • 1N10 Impulse and Thrust
        • 04 Bottle Rocket
        • 02 Boomerang Ball (1)
        • 03 Boomerang Ball (2)
        • 04 Throwing a Basketball
        • 05 Sliding Ladder
      • 1N20 Conservation of Linear Momentum
        • 01 Elastic Collisions
        • 02 Inelastic Collisions
        • 03 Explosion
        • 04 Colliding Balls (1)
        • 05 Demonstrator and Cart
        • 06 Knock-Out
        • 07 Pulling a Slackened Rope
        • 08 Spinning Bouncing Ball
        • 01 Super Balls, Double Ball Drop
        • 10 Magnet Symmetry
      • 1N22 Rockets
        • 04 Bottle Rocket
        • 06 Recoil of a Water Jet
      • 1N30 Collisions in One Dimension
        • 06 Knock-Out
        • 02 Super Balls, Double Ball Drop
    • 1Q rotational dynamics
      • 1Q10 Momentum of Inertia
        • 01 Bicycle Wheel Pendulum
        • 02 Physical Pendulum (2)
        • 03 Maximum Rotational Inertia
        • 04 Rolling Down a Wide Gutter
        • 05 Pirouette
        • 06 Rolling Downhill
        • 07 Matchbox and Wineglass
      • 1Q20 Rotational Energy
        • 01 Dropping Rolls of Toilet Paper
        • 02 Yo-Yo
        • 03 Maxwheel
        • 06 Rolling Downhill
        • 05 Rolling Down a Wide Gutter
      • 1Q40 Conservation of Angular Momentum
        • 05 Magnet Symmetry
        • 02 Colliding Magnets
        • 03 Matchbox and Wineglass
        • 04 Sweet Spot
        • 05 Balls on a Rotating Ramp
        • 06 Counter Rotating Disks
        • 07 Dumb-Bell
        • 08 How an Astronaut can Turn Around in Free Space
        • 09 Playing Tennis
        • 05 Pirouette
        • 11 Pulling the Rug
        • 12 Tippe Top
        • 13 Vibrating Stopwatch
        • 14 Pulling a Spool (a.k.a. Oma’s Garenklosje)
        • 15 Spinning Bouncing Ball
        • 16 Bicycle Wheel and Swivel Chair
        • 17 Train and Track
      • 1Q50 Gyros
        • 01 Precession (1)
        • 02 Precessing Orbit (1)
        • 03 Precession (4) AND Nutation (3)
        • 04 Precession (2)
        • 06 Nutation (1)
        • 07 Nutation (2)
        • 08 Precession (3a)
        • 09 Precession (3b)
      • 1Q60 Rotational Stability
        • 02 Dumb-Bell
        • 03 Stable Wheel
        • 04 Percussionpoint (1)
        • 05 Percussionpoint (2)
        • 06 Sleeper
        • 07 Tippe Top
        • 08 Rugbyball
    • 1R properties of matter
      • 1R10 Hooke’s Law
        • 01 duplicate

Fluid Mechanics

  • 2 Fluid mechanics
    • 2A surface tension
    • 2B statics of fluids
      • 2B20 Static Pressure
        • 01 Rotating Liquid
    • 2C Dynamics of fluids
      • 2C20 Bernoulli Force
        • 01 Magnus Effect (1)
        • 02 Magnus Effect (2)

Oscillations and Waves

  • 3 Oscillations and waves
    • 3A oscillations
      • 3A10 Pendula
        • 01 Mathematical Pendulum (1) Simple Harmonic Motion
        • 02 Mathematical pendulum (2) Large angle
        • 03 Mathematical Pendulum (3) Determining g
        • 04 Chaotic Pendulum
      • 3A15 Physical Pendula
        • 01 Physical Pendulum (1) Compound Pendulum
        • 02 Physical Pendulum (2)
        • 03 Physical Pendulum (3) Oscillating Ring
      • 3A40 Simple Harmonic Motions
        • 01 Mathematical Pendulum (1) Simple Harmonic Motion
        • 01 Mathematical Pendulum (1) Simple Harmonic Motion
        • 03 Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) (1)
        • 03 Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) (2)
        • 05 Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) (3)
      • 3A50 Damped Oscillators
        • 01 Damped Harmonic Motion
        • 02 Damped Galvanometer
      • 3A95 Non-Linear Systems
        • 3A95.01
        • 02 Chaotic Pendulum
    • 3B wave motion
      • 3B10 Transverse Pulses and Waves
        • 01 Reflections of Transverse Pulses (2)
        • 02 Speed of a Single Pulse on Different Strings (2)
        • 03 Reflections of Transverse Pulses (1)
        • 04 Speed of a Single Pulse on Different Strings (1)
        • 05 Transverse Traveling Wave (1)
        • 06 Transverse Traveling Wave (2)
      • 3B20 Longitudinal Pulses and Waves
        • 01 Reflected Sound Pulses
      • 3B22 Standing Waves
        • 01 deBroglie Applied to Bohr
        • 02 Handheld Standing Waves
        • 03 Kundt’s Tube
        • 04 Sonometer by Hand
        • 05 Plucking a String
        • 06 Microwave Oven Standing Waves
      • 3B25 Impendance and Dispersion
        • 01 Impedance Matching
      • 3B40 Doppler Effect
        • 01 Doppler
    • 3C acoustics
      • 3C50 Wave Analysis and Synthesis
        • 05 Plucking a String
    • 3D instruments
    • 3E sound reproduction

Thermodynamics

  • 4 Thermodynamics
    • 4A thermal properties of matter
      • 4A10 Thermometry
        • 01 Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
        • 02 Inverted Thermometer
    • 4B heat and the first law
      • 4B10 Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
        • 01 Joule’s Experiment
      • 4B20 Convection
        • 01 Cooling by Insulation
      • 4B30 Conduction
        • 01 Cooling by Insulation
      • 4B40 Radiation
        • 01 Cooling by Insulation
        • 02 Stefan-Boltzmann Law for Radiation
      • 4B60 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
        • 01 Joule’s Experiment
        • 02 Smashing
      • 4B70 Adiabatic Processes
        • 01 Clement’s and Desormes’ Experiment
        • 02 Fire-Pump
    • 4C change of state
      • 4C10 pVT Surfaces
        • 4C10.01
        • 02 Work = int(PdV)
      • 4C30 Phase Changes, Liquid-Gas
        • 01 Boiling to Freeze
      • 4C31 Cooling by Evaporation
        • 01 Evaporating Ether
      • 4C33 Vapor Pressure
        • 01 Dippy Bird
        • 02 Boiling Water at Reduced Pressure
    • 4D kinetic theory
      • 4D10 Brownian Motion
        • 01 Brownian motion
      • 4D30 Kinetic Motion
        • 01 Radiometer of Crooks
        • D30 Rain of balls
    • 4E gas law
    • 4F entropy and the second law
      • 4F10 Entropy
        • 01 Falling down or falling up
        • 02 Irreversible process
        • 03 Violation of the entropy law
      • 4F30 Heat Cycles
        • 01 Dippy Bird
        • 02 Stirling engine

Electromagnetism

  • 5 Electricity and magnetism
    • 5A electrostatics
      • 5A10 Producing Static Charge
        • 01 E-Field in Material (Electric Soap Bubbles)
      • 5A20 Coulomb’s Law
        • 01 Coulomb’s Law (2)
        • 02 E-Field in Material (Electric Soap Bubbles)
      • 5A40 Induced Charge
        • 01 Charging by Induction
        • 02 Polarizing a dielectric
        • 03 E-Field in Material (Electric Soap Bubbles)
        • 04 Water Dropper (almost Kelvin water dropper)
      • 5A50 Electrostatic Machines
        • 01 Water Dropper (almost Kelvin water dropper)
    • 5B electric fields and potential
      • 5B10 Electric Fields
        • 01 Charge and Field; inside and-or outside?
        • 02 Charge is on the Outside
      • 5B20 Gauss’ Law
        • 01 Gauss’ Law
        • 02 Charge is on the Outside
        • 03 Charge and Field; inside and-or outside?
    • 5C capacitance
      • 5C10 Capacitors
        • 5C10.20
      • 5C20 Dielectric
        • 01 Polarizing a dielectric
        • 02 Capacitor (2) Different Dielectrics
      • 5C30 Energy stored in a capacitor
        • 01 Capacitor (2) Different Dielectrics
    • 5D resistance
      • 5D20 Resistivity and Temperature
        • 01 Positive Temperature Coefficient
        • 02 Negative Temperature Coefficient
    • 5E electromotive force and current
    • 5F DC circuits
      • 5F15 Power and Energy
        • 01 Fuse-Wires Parallel
      • 5F20 Circuit Analysis
        • 01 Fuse-Wires Parallel
    • 5G magnetic materials
      • 5G20 Magnet Domains and Magnetization
        • 01 Barkhausen Effect (1)
        • 02 Barkhausen Effect (2)
      • 5G40 Hysteresis
        • 01 Barkhausen Effect (1)
        • 02 Barkhausen Effect (2)
    • 5H magnetic fields and forces
      • 5H10 Magnetic Fields
        • 01 Magnetic Fields
      • 5H20 Forces on Magnets
        • 01 Force between Magnets (1)
        • 02 Force between Magnets (2)
      • 5H30 Force on Moving Charges
        • 01 Force on Electrons in a Magnetic Field (1)
        • 02 Force on Electrons in a Magnetic Field (2)
      • 5H40 Force on Current Wires
        • 01 Force Effect of Current
        • 02 Lorentz Force (1)
        • 5H40.03 Lorentz Force (2)
        • 04 Parallel Wires
      • 5H50 Torques on Coils
        • 01 Current Loop in Magnetic Field
    • 5J inductance
      • 5J10 Self Inductance
        • 01 Self-Inductance in AC Circuit
    • 5K electromagnetic induction
      • 5K10 Induced Currents and Forces
        • 02 Damped Galvanometer
        • 02 Skipping Rope
      • 5K20 Eddy Currents
        • 01 Arago’s Compass Needle
        • 02 Arago’s Disk
      • 5K30 Transformers
        • 01 Electric Power Transmission Line
        • 02 Transformer
      • 5K40 Motors and Generators
        • 01 Electric Motor (Synchronous Motor)
    • 5L AC circuits
      • 5L20 LCR Circuits - AC
        • 01 Self-Inductance in AC Circuit
        • 02 Phase
        • 03 LRC Circuits
    • 5M semiconductors and tubes
    • 5N electromagnetic radiation
      • 5N10 Transmission Lines and Antennas
        • 01 Electromagnetic Waves (Lecher Lines)
        • 06 Microwave Oven Standing Waves

6 optics

  • 6 Optics
    • 6A geometrical optics
      • 6A01 Speed of Light
        • 01 Speed of Light; Foucault-Michelson
      • 6A10 Reflection From Flat Surfaces
        • 01 Confusing Mirrors (mirrors at 90 degrees)
        • 02 Corner Cube
      • 6A40 Refractive Index
        • 01 Chromatic Aberration
        • 02 Chromatic Aberration
      • 6A42 Refraction at Flat Surfaces
        • 01 Brewster’s Angle (3)
      • 6A44 Total Internal Reflection
        • 01 Brewster’s Angle (3)
        • 02 Tunneling
      • 6A60 Thin Lens
        • 01 Chromatic Aberration
      • 6A70 Optical Instruments
        • 01 Magnifying Glass
    • 6B photometry
      • 6B30 Radiation Pressure
        • 01 Radiation Pressure?
    • 6C diffraction
      • 6C10 Diffraction From Two Sources
        • 01 Resolution
        • 02 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction
        • 03 Young’s Double Slit
      • 6C20 Diffraction Around Objects
        • 01 Diffraction (1), introduction
        • 02 Diffraction (2a), Single Slit
        • 03 Diffraction (2b), Single Slit
        • 04 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction
    • 6D interference
      • 6D10 Interference From Two Sources
        • 01 Fresnel Double Mirror
        • 02 Fresnel Double Prism
        • 03 Lloyds Mirror
        • 04 Young’s Double Slit
      • 6D20 Lasers
        • 01 Speckle Spots and random Diffraction
      • 6D30 Thin Films
        • 01 Newton’s Rings (1)
        • 02 Newton’s Rings (2)
        • 03 Oil Film
        • 04 Soap Film
    • 6F color
      • 6F30 Dispersion
        • 01 Chromatic Aberration
    • 6H polarisation
      • 6H20 Polarization by Reflection
        • 01 Brewster’s Angle (1)
        • 02 Brewster’s Angle (2)
        • 01 Brewster’s Angle (3)
      • 6H35 Birefringence
        • 01 Brewster’s Angle (1)
    • 6J the eye
    • 6Q modern optics

7 modern physics

  • 7 Modern physics
    • 7A quantum effects
      • 7A50 Wave Mechanics
        • 01 deBroglie Applied to Bohr
        • 02 Tunneling
      • 7A60 X-ray and Electron Diffraction
        • 01 Bragg Scattering
    • 7B atomic physics
      • 7B10 Spectra
        • 01 Balmer Series
      • 7B50 Atomic Models
        • 01 deBroglie Applied to Bohr
    • 7D nuclear physics
    • 7E elementary particles
    • 7F relativity
      • 7F10 Relativity
        • 01 E = mc^2 (Einstein)

8 astronomy

  • 8 Astronomy

9 miscellaneous

  • 9 Miscellaneous
  • Repository
  • Open issue

Index

H | K | P | S

H

  • how to demonstrate

K

  • knowledge retention

P

  • presenting demonstrations

S

  • student engagement

By Ron Haaksman & Freek Pols

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