Phys 101 Demos

This list includes all demos that were done in Phys 101 in 2018, plus a few extras.

1D Motion

  • Fan cart
  • Beeping flashing hat
  • Tennis ball
  • Motion sensor
  • Cart & track

Projectile Motion

Relative Motion

  • Tractor on sliding paper
  • Dolly and ball

Newton's Laws

  • Pulling people with scales
  • Skateboard with medicine ball and basketball
  • Fire extinguisher and skateboard
  • Fan cart
  • Cart, pulley, and hanging mass
  • Apparent weight on a scale

Circular Motion

  • Coat hanger & penny
  • Bike wheel

Friction and Drag

  • Marbles falling in glycerol
  • Friction block
  • Pulling stacked blocks

Statics of Rigid Bodies

  • Upright bird
  • Picking up money
  • Bowling ball challenge

Dynamic Torque

Work and Energy

Linear Momentum and Collisions

  • Foam dominoes
  • Fan cart with sail

Rotational Dynamics

  • Translation of rolling wheel

Density and Buoyancy

  • Floating bowling ball
  • Melting ice in water

Static Pressure

  • Pressure in a leaking bottle

Siphons, Fountains, Pumps

Atmospheric Pressure

  • Tube and water (water in the tube does not fall when the top of the tube is blocked)

Dynamics of Fluids

  • Dynamic pressure of air between two cups

Thermodynamics

  • Balloon in liquid nitrogen
  • Food colouring diffusion

Oscillations and Waves

  • Spring oscillations
  • Frequency dependence of hearing
  • Gas cylinder bell
  • Microphone and oscilloscope
  • Speaker beats
  • Slide whistle
  • Penny whistle