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UM - 1A10.20 : Standards of Mass
Objective: Show the difference between a 1kg. and 1lb. mass.
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UM - 1A10.35 : Meter Stick - Yard Stick
Objective: Show the difference in length between a meterstick and yardstick.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1A40.10
UM - 1A40.30 : Magnetic Vectors
Objective: Demonstrate vector properties.
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UM - 1A50.10 : Radian
Objective: Demonstrate radians
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UM - 1A60.10 : Powers of Ten
Objective: Links to a YouTube video of the Powers of Ten
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1C10.05 PIRA's Formal Title: Ultrasonic Ranger and Student
UM - 1D15.10 : Motion Detector and Student
Objective: Demonstrate the plots of position, velocity, and acceleration for linear motion.
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PIRA's Formal Title: PASCO Dynamics Carts
UM - 1C10.20 : Constant Velocity Cart
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PIRA's Formal Title: Penny and Feather
UM - 1C20.10 : The Feather and the Farthing
Objective: Demonstrate that all objects fall with the same speed in a vacuum.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1C30.10 PIRA's Formal Title: PASCO Free Fall
UM - 1C30.12 : Newton's Apple
Objective: Measure a quick value for Earth's gravitational constant with this flashy demonstration.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Throw Objects
UM - 1D40.10 : Dumbbell with Light
Objective: Demonstrate that the center of mass moves in a parabolic path while the object itself may move in a complicated motion about this center.
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UM - 1D50.10 : Ball on a String
Objective: Demonstrate centripetal force.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Pail of Water, Pail of Nails
UM - 1D50.40 : Swing the Pail
Objective: Demonstrate centrifugal and centripetal forces.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Howitzer and Tunnel
UM - 1D60.10 : Relativity Cart
Objective: Demonstrate that an object thrown upward while moving horizontally at a constant velocity will follow a parabolic projectile curve and land back in the cart.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Simultaneous Fall
UM - 1D60.20 : Slug Gun
Objective: Demonstrate that horizontal motion is independent of vertical motion.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Monkey and Hunter
UM - 1D60.30 : Shooting the Falling Teddy Bear
Objective: Demonstrate that a projectile aimed directly at a target will only hit the target if it falls at the same time as the projectile is launched.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Bulldozer on Moving Sheet
UM - 1E10.10 : Crossing the River
Objective: Demonstrate moving reference frames.
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UM - 1E10.20 : Frames of Reference Film
Objective: Classic film about various frames of reference.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Inertia Ball
UM - 1F20.10 : Block and String
Objective: Demonstrate inertia of a large block with a surprising outcome.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1F20.30 PIRA's Formal Title: Tablecloth Pull
UM - 1F20.33 : Cloth from Under Dishes
Objective: Demonstrate inertia and change in time of an impulse relative to static and kinetic friction.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1G10.40
UM - 1G10.40-2 : Bicycle-Size Atwood's Machine
Objective: The Atwood's Machine is a two body system that demonstrates the interdependence of forces on two masses connected by a string on a pulley.
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UM - 1J11.20 : Tower of Lire
Objective: Demonstrates a stacking method that can continue indefinitely.
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UM - 1J20.10 : Bowling Ball Stability
Objective: Demonstrate the difference between stable and unstable equilibrium points.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Balance the Cone
UM - 1J20.11 : Stability
Objective: Demonstrate stable, unstable, and neutral equilibriums.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Suspended Block
UM - 1J30.10 : Car Balanced on Inclined Plane
Objective: A car sitting on an inclined plane is very carefully counterbalanced with strings and counter weights so that if the plane is removed the car remains in position and if the normal force string is disconnected while the car is on the plane, the car should stay put.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Rope and Three Students
UM - 1J30.25 : Forces on a Taut Rope
Objective: Demonstrate that a rope held taut end to end can be easily deflected in the center by another student or a mass.
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UM - 1J40.10 : Grip Bar
Objective: Demonstrate how torque increases with R.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Torque Beam
UM - 1J40.20 : Meter Stick and Weights - Moment of Force
Objective: Demonstrate that the sum of the moments must be zero for equilibrium.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1K10.20 PIRA's Formal Title: Ladder Against a Wall
UM - 1J40.60 : Ladder on Water
Objective: Demonstrate that there is no horizontal force on a ladder.
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UM - 1K10.30 : Walking the Spool
Objective: Demonstrate some applications of Newton's laws.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Friction Blocks - Surface Materials
UM - 1K20.10 : Various Blocks on an Inclined Plane
Objective: Compare the coefficient of friction of several materials with wood.
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UM - 1K20.30 : Static / Dynamic Friction
Objective: Measure the static force of friction and compare this to the dynamic force.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1L10.10 PIRA's Formal Title: Cavendish Balance Video
UM - 1L10.30 : Cavendish Experiment
Objective: The Cavendish experiment was designed to measure G, the gravitational constant.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1L20.10 PIRA's Formal Title: Gravitational Wells
UM - 8C10.u2 : Accretion Disk
Objective: Demonstrate an accretion disk.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1M10.20
UM - 1M10.25 : Pile Driver and Soda Cans
Objective: The kinetic energy of the mass is used to do work against friction crushing the can.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1M20.10 PIRA's Formal Title: Pulleys
UM - 1M20.u1 : Block and Tackle
Objective: Demonstrate complicated pulley systems.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Nose Basher
UM - 1M40.10 : Pendulum and Nose
Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of energy. (Well, most of it…)
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PIRA's Formal Title: Stopped Pendulum
UM - 1M40.15 : Pendulum and Peg
Objective: Demonstrate conservation of energy in a pendulum.
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UM - 1M40.20 : Loop the Loop
Objective: Demonstrate gravitational potential is converted to rotational and circular motion so that an object can remain on a track that is in the shape of a loop.
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UM - 1N10.20 : Egg in a Sheet
Objective: An egg thrown at a loosely held sheet will not break no matter how hard you throw it.
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UM - 1N20.20 : Spring Apart Carts
Objective: Two carts are next to each other and a spring between them launches. They have equal and opposite reaction.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Carts and Medicine Ball
UM - 1N21.10 : Cart for Lecturer to Stand On
Objective: Demonstrate the principles of conservation of momentum.
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UM - 1N22.20 : Water Rocket
Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of momentum.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Collision Balls
UM - 1N30.10 : Newtonian Demonstrator
Objective: Demonstrate the transfer of momentum.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1N40.24 PIRA's Formal Title: Air Table Collisions
UM - 1Z3 : Air Table
Objective: Demonstrate two-dimensional motion and conservation of momentum.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1Q10.30 PIRA's Formal Title: Ring, Disk, and Sphere Race
UM - 1Q10.31 : Inclined Plane
Objective: The angular accelerations of various objects rolled down an inclined plane are compared.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Adjustable Angular Momentum
UM - 1Q20.10 : Angular Acceleration Model
Objective: The rotational acceleration of the system for different moments of inertia is compared.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1Q30.10 PIRA's Formal Title: Passing the Wheel
UM - 1Q50.20 : Gyroscopes - Bicycle Wheel
Objective: The simplest and most clear example of a gyroscope is the bicycle wheel with handles.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Rotating Stool and Masses
UM - 1Q40.10 : Rotating Chair with Weights
Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of angular momentum.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1Q40.22
UM - 1Q40.u3 : Hoberman Sphere - Collapsing Star
Objective: Demonstrate conservation of angular momentum for a collapsing and expanding sphere.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Rotating Stool and Wheel
UM - 1Q40.30 : Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel
Objective: Demonstrate angular momentum.
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PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1Q50.50
UM - 1Q50.00 : Gyroscopes
Objective: Demonstrate precession, nutation, and the use of gyroscopes in guidance systems.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Stretching a Spring
UM - 1R10.10 : Hooke's Law
Objective: Demonstrate the change in length of a spring for different masses hung on a spring.
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PIRA's Formal Title: Happy and Sad Balls
UM - 1R40.30 : Balls Wanted: Dead or Alive
Objective: Demonstrate elastic and inelastic collisions.
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