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Demonstrations Performed by
Julius Sumner Miller |
From the television show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a show produced in the early 1970s, in Canada I believe. The show featured a variety of characters such as The Librarian, Grizelda the Ghastly Gourmet, The Oracle, Dr Pet Vet and so on, all played by Billy Van, and The Professor portrayed by Julius Sumner Miller. A terrific show, well worth taking in.
This tape is a hodgepodge of demos. It is useful to see how Professor Miller, a vocal exponent of demonstrations with many thought provoking ideas on the teaching of physics, presents these demos. Each segment is 3 to 5 minutes long.
- Cartesian Diver
- Thermal Expansion - the ball and ring
- Thermal Expansion - ball and ring, bimetallic strip (brass and iron)
- suction cups
- simple pendulum
- inertia ball
- collision balls, in track
- conic sections
- Bernoulli I
- Bernoulli II
- Bernoulli III
- Bernoulli IV
- connected soap bubbles
- connected soap bubbles (cont), candle burning at both ends
- candle in glass, in chimney
- metal adhesion plates
- ball falling into cup, a greater than g
- Doppler effect, tuning fork
- beats, two tuning forks
- independence of horizontal and vertical motion
- howitzer car
- monkey and hunter; intro to temperature and heat
- temperature and heat - thought expt with potatoes, steel balls in paraffin
- friction in rope wrapped around a cylinder
- crush can with T-tube; hand cranked generator
- crushed can; Hooke's law
Some of these demos illustrate the importance of ensuring that the audience can see clearly the effect that is being demonstrated and the importance of having apparatus that works properly. See, for example, the demonstration that the acceleration of a falling stick, hinged at one end, can be greater than g.
Disclaimer: All demonstrations are posted for the convenience and benefit of faculty and staff in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University and are not intended for outside use. The author(s) assume no responsibility or liability for the use of information contained on this site. Warnings and precautionary measures listed on this site assume normal operation of equipment and are not inclusive. Demonstrations may pose a significant hazard and can, in some instances, result in death; reasonable safety precautions must be taken. Demonstrations should be performed by qualified individuals only.
Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007