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UM - 1A10.20 : Standards of Mass

Objective: Show the difference between a 1kg. and 1lb. mass.


UM - 1A10.35 : Meter Stick - Yard Stick

Objective: Show the difference in length between a meterstick and yardstick.


PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1A40.10

UM - 1A40.30 : Magnetic Vectors

Objective: Demonstrate vector properties.


UM - 1A50.10 : Radian

Objective: Demonstrate radians


UM - 1A60.10 : Powers of Ten

Objective: Links to a YouTube video of the Powers of Ten


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.


PIRA's Formal Title: PASCO Dynamics Carts

UM - 1C10.20 : Constant Velocity Cart


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.


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.


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.


UM - 1D50.10 : Ball on a String

Objective: Demonstrate centripetal force.


PIRA's Formal Title: Pail of Water, Pail of Nails

UM - 1D50.40 : Swing the Pail

Objective: Demonstrate centrifugal and centripetal forces.


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.


PIRA's Formal Title: Simultaneous Fall

UM - 1D60.20 : Slug Gun

Objective: Demonstrate that horizontal motion is independent of vertical motion.


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.


PIRA's Formal Title: Bulldozer on Moving Sheet

UM - 1E10.10 : Crossing the River

Objective: Demonstrate moving reference frames.


UM - 1E10.20 : Frames of Reference Film

Objective: Classic film about various frames of reference.


PIRA's Formal Title: Inertia Ball

UM - 1F20.10 : Block and String

Objective: Demonstrate inertia of a large block with a surprising outcome.


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.


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.


UM - 1J11.20 : Tower of Lire

Objective: Demonstrates a stacking method that can continue indefinitely.


UM - 1J20.10 : Bowling Ball Stability

Objective: Demonstrate the difference between stable and unstable equilibrium points.


PIRA's Formal Title: Balance the Cone

UM - 1J20.11 : Stability

Objective: Demonstrate stable, unstable, and neutral equilibriums.


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.


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.


UM - 1J40.10 : Grip Bar

Objective: Demonstrate how torque increases with R.


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.


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.


UM - 1K10.30 : Walking the Spool

Objective: Demonstrate some applications of Newton's laws.


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.


UM - 1K20.30 : Static / Dynamic Friction

Objective: Measure the static force of friction and compare this to the dynamic force.


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.


PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1L20.10

PIRA's Formal Title: Gravitational Wells

UM - 8C10.u2 : Accretion Disk

Objective: Demonstrate an accretion disk.


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.


PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1M20.10

PIRA's Formal Title: Pulleys

UM - 1M20.u1 : Block and Tackle

Objective: Demonstrate complicated pulley systems.


PIRA's Formal Title: Nose Basher

UM - 1M40.10 : Pendulum and Nose

Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of energy. (Well, most of it…)


PIRA's Formal Title: Stopped Pendulum

UM - 1M40.15 : Pendulum and Peg

Objective: Demonstrate conservation of energy in a pendulum.


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.


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.


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.


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.


UM - 1N22.20 : Water Rocket

Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of momentum.


PIRA's Formal Title: Collision Balls

UM - 1N30.10 : Newtonian Demonstrator

Objective: Demonstrate the transfer of momentum.


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.


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.


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.


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.


PIRA's Formal Title: Rotating Stool and Masses

UM - 1Q40.10 : Rotating Chair with Weights

Objective: Demonstrate the conservation of angular momentum.


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.


PIRA's Formal Title: Rotating Stool and Wheel

UM - 1Q40.30 : Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel

Objective: Demonstrate angular momentum.


PIRA's Formal 200 ID - 1Q50.50

UM - 1Q50.00 : Gyroscopes

Objective: Demonstrate precession, nutation, and the use of gyroscopes in guidance systems.


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.


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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