A set of 25 singlesided videodiscs containing 600 physics demonstrations. Prepared under the direction of Jearl Walker, Brett Carroll, John Davis and Richard Berg. A short preview videotape containing a few of the demonstrations is available.
Subject Index
Mechanics
Disc 1, Chapter 1 through Disc 8, Chapter 18 inclusive
Waves, Oscillations and Sound
Disc 8, Chapter 19 through Disc 11, Chapter 25
Fluids
Disc 12, Clapter 27 through Disc 14, Chapter 31
Thermal Physics
Disc 11, Chapter 26 and Disc 14, Chapter 32 through Disc 16, Chapter 38
Demo 01-08 Constant Velocity
Demo 01-09 Bulldozer on Moving Sheet
Demo 01-10 Rolling BaII Incline
Demo 01-11 Constant Acceleration
Demo 01-12 String and Weights Drop
Demo 01-13 Reaction Time Falling Meter Stick
Demo 01-14 Guinea and Feather
Chapter 3 Linear Dynamics
Demo 01-15 String and Weight Acceleration
Demo 01-16 AtwoodÕs Machine
Demo 01-17 Acceleration with Spring
Demo 01-18 Dropped Slinky
Demo 01-19 Candle in Dropped Jar
DISC TWO
Chapter 4 Motion in a Plane
Demo 02-01 Shooter/Dropper
Demo 02-02 Monkey Gun
Demo 02-03 Vertical Gun on Car
Demo 02-04 Vertical Gun on Accelerated Car
Demo 02-05 Air Table Parabolas
Demo 02-06 Range Gun
Demo 02-07 Velocity Vector Addition
Demo 02-08 Bulldozer on Moving Sheet (2D)
Demo 02-09 Sliding Weights with Triangle
Demo 02-10 Sailing Upwind
Demo 02-11 Local Vertical with Acceleration
Chapter 5 Inertia
Demo 02-12 Shifted Air Track Inertia
Demo 02-13 Inertia Ball
Demo 02-14 Foam Rock
Demo 02-15 Tablecloth Jerk
Demo 02-16 Eggs and Pizza Pan
Demo 02-17 Pencil and Plywood
Chapter 6 Action and Reaction
Demo 02-18 Reaction Gliders
Demo 02-19 Reaction Gliders Momentum Conservation
Demo 02-20 Car on Rolling Board
Demo 02-21 Fan Car with Sail
Demo 02-22 CO2 Rocket
Demo 02-23 Water Rocket
Demo 02-24 Fine Extinguisher Wagon
Demo 02-25 Helicopter Rotor
Demo 02-26 See-Saw Reaction Carts
DISC THREE
Chapter 7 Friction
Demo 03-01 Air Track Friction
Demo 03-02 Static vs. Sliding Friction
Demo 03-03 Area Dependence of Friction
Demo 03-04 Weight Dependence of Friction
Demo 03-05 Surface Dependence of Friction
Demo 03-06 Stability of Rolling Car
Chapter 8 Work, Energy, and Power
Demo 03-07 Pile Driver
Demo 03-08 Spring Pong Gun
Demo 03-09 Spring Jumper
Demo 03-10 X-Squared Spring Energy Dependence
Demo 03-11 High Bounce Paradox
Demo 03-12 Energy Well Track
Demo 03-13 GalileoÕs Pendulum
Demo 03-14 Bowling Ball Pendulum
Demo 03-15 Triple Track
Demo 03-16 Hand Cranked Generator
Demo 03-17 Generator Driven by Falling Weight
Demo 03-18 Prony Brake
Chapter 9 Center of Mass
Demo 03-19 Stability
Demo 03-20 Irregular Object Center of Mass
Demo 03-21 Center of Mass Disc
Demo 03-22 Chair on Pedestal
Demo 03-23 Clown on Rope
Demo 03-24 Double Cone on Incline
Demo 03-25 Loaded Disc
Demo 03-26 Toppling Cylinders
Demo 03-27 Air Table Center of Mass
DISC FOUR
Chapter 10 Statics
Demo 04-01 Force Board
Demo 04-02 Clothesline
Demo 04-03 Load on Removable Incline
Demo 04-04 Pulley Advantage
Demo 04-05 Pulley and Scales
Demo 04-06 Simple Machines
Demo 04-07 Levers
Demo 04-08 Horizontal Boom
Demo 04-09 Arm Model
Demo 04-10 Torque Bar
Demo 04-11 Hinge Board
Demo 04-12 Torque Wrench
Demo 04-13 Torque Wheel
Demo 04-14 Balancing Meter Stick
Demo 04-15 Meter Stick on Fingers
Demo 04-16 Bridge and Truck
Demo 04-17 Roberval Balance
Demo 04-18 Ladder Forces
Demo 04-19 Broom Stand
Demo 04-20 Bed of Nails
Demo 04-21 Egg Crusher
DISC FIVE
Chapter 11 Collisions
Demo 05-01 Colliding Balls
Demo 05-02 Equal and Unequal Mass Collisions
Demo 05-03 Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
Demo 05-04 Coefficient of Restitution
Demo 05-05 High Bounce
Demo 05-06 Air Table Collisions (Equal Mass)
Demo 05-07 Air Table Collisions (Unequal Mass)
Demo 05-08 Air Table Collisions (Inelastic)
Demo 05-09 Egg in Sheet
Demo 05-10 Pile Driver with Foam Rubber
Demo 05-11 Ballistic Pendulum
Chapter 12 Rotational Kinematics
Demo 05-12 Radian Disc
Demo 05-13 Cycloid Generator
Demo 05-14 Circle with Gap
Demo 05-15 Rotating disc with Erasers
Demo 05-16 Spinning disc with Water
Demo 05-17 Ball on Cord
Demo 05-18 Coin on a Coat Hanger
Demo 05-19 Plane on String
Demo 05-20 Roundup
Demo 05-21 Whirling Bucket of Water
Demo 05-22 Centrifuge Hoops
Demo 05-23 Water and Mercury Centrifuge
Demo 05-24 Spinning Chain
Demo 05-25 Rotating Rubber Wheel
Demo 05-26 Centrifugal Governor
DISC SIX
Chapter 13 Rotational Acceleration and Energy
Demo 06-01 Angular Acceleration Machine
Demo 06-02 Bike Wheel Angular Acceleration
Demo 06-03 Air Rotator With Deflectors
Demo 06-04 Rolling Bodies on Incline
Demo 06-05 Spool on Incline
Demo 06-06 Bike Wheel on Incline
Demo 06-07 Spool with Wrapped Ribbon
Demo 06-08 MaxwellÕs Yoyo
Demo 06-09 Loop the Loop
Demo 06-10 Penny Drop Stick
Demo 06-11 Hinged Stick and Ball
Demo 06-12 Center of Percussion
Demo 06-13 Foucault Pendulum
Demo 06-14 Coriolis Effect
DISC SEVEN
Chapter 14 Conservation of Angular Momentum
Demo 07-01 Marbles and Funnel
Demo 07-02 Tram on a Circular Track
Demo 07-03 Tail Wags Dog
Demo 07-04 Rotating Stool with Weights
Demo 07-05 Rotating Stool and Long Bar
Demo 07-06 Rotating Stool and Bicycle Wheel
Demo 07-07 Gyroscopic Stability
Demo 07-08 Wheel and Brake
Demo 07-09 Satellite Derotator
Chapter 15 Precession
Demo 07-10 Bike Wheel Precession
Demo 07-11 Gyroscope with Adjustable Weights
Demo 07-12 Bike Wheel on Gimbals
Demo 07-13 Double Bike Wheel
Demo 07-14 Motorized Gyroscope
Chapter 16 Rotational Phenomena
Demo 07-15 Static/Dynamic Balance
Demo 07-16 Football Spin
Demo 07-17 Tippy Top
Demo 07-18 Ship Stabilizer
Demo 07-19 Spinning Rod and Hoop on Wire
Demo 07-20 Stable and Unstable Axes of Rotation
Chapter 17 Gravitation
Demo 07-21 Sections of a Cone
Demo 07-22 Ellipse Drawing Board
Demo 07-23 Cavendish Balance
DISC EIGHT
Chapter 18 Elasticity
Demo 08-01 HookeÕs Law
Demo 08-02 Spring in Series and Parallel
Demo 08-03 Torsion Rod
Demo 08-04 Elastic Limits
Demo 08-05 YoungÕs Modulus
Demo 08-06 Bending Beams
Demo 08-07 2:1 Scaling
Demo 08-08 Bologna Bottle
Demo 08-09 Elasticity at Low Temperatures
Chapter 19 Oscillations
Demo 08-10 Tuning Fork with Light
Demo 08-11 Mass on Spring
Demo 08-12 Air Track Simple Harmonic Motion
Demo 08-13 Torsion Pendulum
Demo 08-14 Different Mass Pendula
Demo 08-154 :1 Pendula
Demo 08-16 Hoops and Arcs
Demo 08-17 Pendulum with Large Amplitude
Demo 08-18 Physical Pendulum
Demo 08-19 Variable Angle Pendulum
Demo 08-20 Circular Motion vs. Spring and Weight
Demo 08-21 Circular Motion vs. Pendulum
Demo 08-22 Phase Shift
Demo 08 23 Periodic Non-Simple Harmonic Motion
Demo 08 24 Inertia Balance
Demo 08-25 Pendulum Waves
Demo 08-26 Lissajous Figures
Demo 12-01 Same Level Tubes
Demo 12-02 Pressure vs. Depth
Demo 12-03 Pressure vs. Depth in Water and Alcohol
Demo 12-04 Pressure Independent of Direction
Demo 12-05 Water/Air Compression
Demo 12-06 Water and Mercury U-tube
Demo 12-07 Hydraulic Press
Demo 12-08 Hydrostatic Paradox
Chapter 28 Buoyancy
Demo 12-09 Hydrometer
Demo 12-10 Weight of Ah
Demo 12-11 Buoyant Force
Demo 12-12 ArchimedesÕ Principle
Demo 12-13 Board and Weights Float
Demo 12-14 Different Density Wood
Demo 12-15 Density Ball
Demo 12-16 Density Balls in Beans
Demo 12-17 Battleship in Bathtub
Demo 12-18 Buoyancy in Various Liquids
Demo 12-19 Floating Square Bar
Demo 12-20 Helium Balloon in Glass Jar
Demo 12-21 Helium Balloon in Liquid Nitrogen
Demo 12-22 Cartesian Diver
DISC THIRTEEN
Chapter 29 Fluid Dynamics
Demo 13-01 Pitot Tube
Demo 13-02 Flettner Rotor
Demo 13-03 Curve Balls
Demo 13-04 Floating Ball in Air Jet
Demo 13-05 Suspended Plate in Air Jet
Demo 13-06 Suspended Parallel Cards
Demo 13-07 Vortex Cannon
Demo 13-08 Un-mixing
Demo 13-09 Tornado Tube
Demo 13-10 Siphon
Demo 13-11 Syringe Water Velocity
Demo 13-12 Uniform Pressure Drop
Demo 13-13 BernoulliÕs Principle
Demo 13-14 Water Hammer
Demo 13-15 ToricelliÕs Tank
Demo 13-16 Accelerometers
Demo 13-17 Paraboloid of Revolution
Demo 13-18 Rotating Water Troughs
Chapter 30 Surface Tension
Demo 13-19 Surface Tension Disc
Demo 13-20 Floating Metal Sheet
Demo 13-21 Soap Film Pull-up
Demo 13-22 Soap Film Shapes
Demo 13-23 Two Soap Bubbles
Demo 13-24 Minimum Energy Thread
Demo 13-25 Capillary Action
Demo 13-26 Capillary Tubes
DISC FOURTEEN
Chapter 31 Viscosity
Demo 14-01 Air Friction
Demo 14-02 Viscous Drag
Demo 14-03 Ball Drop
Demo 14-04 Gas Viscosity Change with Temperature
Demo 14-05 Viscosity of Alcohol at Low Temperatures
Demo 14-06 Oil Viscosity
Chapter 32 Thermal Phenomena
Demo 14-07 Thermal Expansion of Wire
Demo 14-08 Bimetallic Strip
Demo 14-09 Thermostat Model
Demo 14-10 Pin Breaker
Demo 14-11 Thermal Expansion
Demo 14-12 Thermal Expansion of Air
Demo 14-13 Thermal Expansion of Water
Demo 14-14 Negative Expansion Coefficient of Water
Demo 14-15 Dust Explosion
Demo 14-16 Scaling Cube
Demo 14-17 Specific Heat
Demo 14-18 Specific Heat with Rods and Wax
Demo 14-19 Boiling Water in a Paper Cup
Demo 14-20 Water Balloon Heat Capacity
Demo 16-21 Electrostatic Rods
Demo 16-22 Electrostatic Rod and Cloth
Demo 16-23 Electrostatic Ping-Pong Deflection
Demo 16-24 Electrostatic Ping-Pong Balls
Demo 16-25 Conductors and Insulators
Demo 16-26 Piezoelectric Sparker
DISC SEVENTEEN
Chapter 40 Electrostatic Induction
Demo 17-01 Electrostatic Induction
Demo 17-02 Metal Rod Attraction
Demo 17-03 Electrophorus
Demo 17-04 Induction Generator
Demo 17-05 Kelvin Water Dropper
Demo 17-06 Wooden Needle
Chapter 41 Electric Fields
Demo 17-07 Van de Graff Generator
Demo 17-08 Van de Graaff with Streamers
Demo 17-09 Van de Graaff and Wand
Demo 17-10 Electric Field
Demo 17-11 Lightning Rod
Demo 17-12 Pinwheel
Demo 17-13 Point and Candle
Demo 17-14 Faraday Cage
Demo 17-15 Faraday Ice Pail
Demo 17-16 Smoke Precipitation
Demo 17-17 Electron Discharge Tube with Wheel
Chapter 42 Resistance and DC Circuits
Demo 17-18 Resistance Wires
Demo 17-19 OhmÕs Law
Demo 17-20 Heated Wire
Demo 17-21 Cooled Wire
Demo 17-22 Electron Motion Model
Demo 17-23 Series/Parallel Resistors
Demo 17-24 Series/Parallel Light Bulbs
Demo 17-25 Wheatstone Bridge
Demo 17-26 Galvanometer as Voltmeter and Ammeter
Demo 17-27 Conservation of Current
DISC EIGHTEEN
Chapter 43 Voltage Drops and I R Losses
Demo 18-01 Voltage Drop Along Wire
Demo 18-02 Sum of IR Drops
Demo 18-03 Internal Resistance of Batteries
Demo 18-04 Loading by a Voltmeter
Demo 18-05 Voltage Drops in House Wires
Demo 18-06 12 R Losses
Demo 18-07 Hot Dog Frying
Demo 18-18 Leyden Jars on Toepler Holtz
Demo 18-19 Parallel Plate Capacitor
Demo 18-20 Parallel Plate Capacitor Dielectrics
Demo 18-21 Rotary Capacitor
Demo 18-22 Battery and Separable Capacitor
Demo 18-23 Exploding Capacitor
Demo 18-24 Force on a Dielectric
Demo 18-25 Dissectible Capacitor
Demo 18-26 Grounded Leyden Jar
Demo 18-27 Series/Parallel Capacitors
Demo 18-28 RC Charging Curve
Demo 18-29 Relaxation Oscillator
DISC NINETEEN
Chapter 47 Magnetism and Magnetic Fields
Demo 19-01 Magnetic Attraction/Repulsion
Demo 19-02 Lodestone
Demo 19-03 Dip Needle
Demo 19-04 Magnetic Fields Around Bar Magnets
Demo 19-05 Broken Magnet
Demo 19-06 Lowest Energy Configuration
Chapter 48 Magnetic Fields From Currents
Demo 19-07 Right-Hand Rule
Demo 19-08 OerstedÕs Needle
Demo 19-09 Magnetic Fields Around Currents
Demo 19-10 Solenoid Bar Magnet
Demo 19-11 Large Electromagnet
Demo 19-12 Electromagnet with 1.5-V Battery
Demo 19-13 Pinch Wires
Demo 19-14 Biot-Savart Law
Chapter 49 Magnetic Properties of Matter
Demo 19-15 Magnetizing Iron by Contact
Demo 19-16 Magnetic Domain Model
Demo 19-17 Magnetizing Iron
Demo 19-18 Demagnetizing Iron by Hammering
Demo 19-19 Barkhausen Effect
Demo 19-20 Magnetic Shielding
Demo 19-21 Permalloy in EarthÕs Field
Demo 19-22 Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism
Demo 19-23 Dysprosium in Liquid Nitrogen
Demo 19-24 Curie Nickel
Demo 19-25 Curie Temperature Wheel
DISC TWENTY
Chapter 50 Magnetic Forces on Currents
Demo 20-01 Jumping Wire
Demo 20-02 AmpereÕs Frame
Demo 20-03 Deflected Electron Beam
Demo 20-04 Fine Beam Tube
Demo 20-05 BarlowÕs Wheel
Demo 20-06 Ion Motor
Demo 20-07 AC/DC Magnetic Contrast
Demo 20-08 DÕArsonvaI Meter
Demo 20-09 DC Motor
Demo 20-10 Hall Effect
Demo 21-07 Light in a Vacuum
Demo 21-08 Straight Line Propagation
Demo 21-09 Pinhole Camera
Demo 21-10 Inverse Square Law
Demo 21-11 Radio Waves
Demo 21-12 Impossible Triangle
Demo 21-13 Lecher Wires
Demo 21-14 Microwave Unit
Demo 21-15 Microwave Standing Waves
Demo 21-16 Microwave Absorption
Demo 21-17 Radio in Faraday Cage
Chapter 57 Plane Mirrors
Demo 21-18 Microwave Reflection
Demo 21-19 Diffuse/Specular Reflection
Demo 21-20 Angles of Incidence and Reflection
Demo 21-21 Location of Image
Demo 21-22 Parity Reversal in a Mirror
Demo 21-23 Hinged Mirrors
Demo 21-24 Corner Reflector
Demo 21-25 Barbershop Mirrors
Demo 2 l-26 Mirror Box
DISC TWENTY-TWO
Chapter 58 Curved Mirrors
Demo 22-01 Concave and Convex Mirrors .
Demo 22-02 Spherical Aberration in a Mirror
Demo 22-03 Energy at a Focal Point
Demo 22-04 Heat Focusing
Demo 22-05 Large Concave Mirror
Chapter 59 Refraction and Internal Reflection
Demo 22-06 Refraction/Reflection from Plastic Block
Demo 22-07 Small Refraction Tank
Demo 22-08 Acrylic/Lead Glass Refraction
Demo 22-09 Three Different Prisms
Demo 22-10 Disappearing Eye Dropper
Demo 22-11 Critical Angle/Total Internal Reflection
Demo 22-12 Silver Soot Ball
Demo 22-13 Light Pipes
Demo 22-14 Optical Path in Fibers
Demo 22-15 Laser Waterfall
Chapter 60 Lenses
Demo 22-16 Real Image Formation
Demo 22-17 Lens Magnification
Demo 22-18 Ray Tracing with Lenses
Demo 22-19 Fresnel Lens
Demo 22-20 Fillable Air Lenses
Demo 22-21 Spherical Aberration
Demo 22-22 Chromatic Aberration
Demo 22-23 Astigmatism
Demo 22-24 Off Axis Distortion
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
