Books

The letters in square brackets, eg [DHP], are the abbreviations by which books are cited in other locations at this site.

see John Davis and Bruce Eaton "Resource Letter PhD-1: Physics Demonstrations", AJP47(1), 835-40(January1979) for a good bibliography of demonstration related material.

see AP French and Roger Stuewer "One Hundred Resource Letters, 1962-1995" AJP 63(4), 303-6 (April 1995) for a list of Resource Letters. These often contain suggestions or sources for demonstrations.

Primarily Demonstrations

• Brown, Robert J., "333 Science Tricks and Experiments" (Tab Books, 1984)[Brown1]
• Brown, Robert J., "333 More Science Tricks and Experiments" (Tab Books, 1984)[Brown2]
• Carpenter, D. Rae and Richard B. Minnix "The Dick and Rae Physics Demo Notebook" (Dick and Rae Inc 1993)[DaR]
• R. D. Edge, "String and Sticky Tape Experiments" (AAPT, 1987)
• Robert Ehrlich, "Turning the World Inside Out and 174 Other Simple Demonstrations" (Princeton University Press, 1990) [Ehrlich1]
• Robert Erlich, "Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Up: Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations" (Princeton University Press, 1997) [Ehrlich2]
• The Exploratorium, "Science Snackbook" (Exploratorium, 1991)
• The Exploratorium, "Exploratorium Cookbook" 3 vols (Exploratorium, 1991)
• The Exploratorium, "The Cool Hot Rod and Other Electrifying Experiments on Energy and Matter" (Wiley, 1996)
• Freier, G.D. and F.J. Anderson, "A Demonstration Handbook for Physics" (AAPT, 1981) [DHP]
• Graf, Rudolf F., "Safe and Simple Electrical Experiments" (Dover Publications, 1973)
• Lanners, Edi, "123 Classic Science Tricks and Experiments" (Tab Books, 1981) (JMR)
• Meiners, H., "Physics Demonstration Experiments" 2 vols (Ronald, 1970) [Meiners]
• Perelman, Y., "Physics Can Be Fun" (Mir Publishers, English version 1975) (JMR)
• Sutton, R.M., "Demonstration Experiments in Physics" (McGraw-Hill, 1938) [Sutton]
• Taylor, Charles, "The Art and Science of Lecture Demonstration" (Adam Hilger, 1988)

Laboratory manuals

• Enns, Richard and George McGuire, "A Laboratory Manual for Nonlinear Physics" (Birkhauser, 1997)
• Granger, Robert, "Experiments in Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics" (Cambridge, 1994) [Granger]
• Isenberg, C. and S. Chomet (eds), "Physics Experiments and Projects for Students Volume 1" (Newman-Hemisphere, 1985)
• Isenberg, C. and S. Chomet, "Physics Experiments and Projects for Students Volume 2" (Hemisphere, 1989)
• Isenberg, C. and S. Chomet, "Physics Experiments and Projects for Students Volume 3" (Taylor and Francis, 1996)
• Meiners, H, RA Oliva, W Eppenstein and T Shannon, "Laboratory Physics, second edition" (Wiley, 1987)
• Preston, DW and ER Dietz, "The Artof Experimental Physics" (Wiley, 1991)
• Rossing, Thomas, "Acoustics Laboratory Experiments" (the author, 1982)

General

• Arons, Arnold B., "A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching" (Wiley, 1990)
• Physics 11 and 12 Curriculum Guide (BC Ministry of Education, 1988)
• Sources of Physics Teaching Part 1 selected articles reprinted from Volumes 1 to 6 of Contemporary Physics (1968)
• Sources of Physics Teaching Part 2 selected articles reprinted from Volumes 3 to 9 of Contemporary Physics (1968)
• Swartz, Clifford E., "Used Math, for the first two years of college" (AAPT, 1993)
• Tobias, Sheila, "They're Not Dumb, They're Different, Stalking the Second Tier" (Research Corp, 1990)
• Tobias, Sheila, "Revitalizing Undergraduate Science, Why Some THings Work and Most Don't" (Research Corp, 1992)