Lecture Demostrations for Physics 1 (mechanics)

Most of the demo equipment is stored in 178 Snell.

Links to Demo Descriptions

1. Constant velocity and constant acceleration: (Live air track and video disks)
2. Projectile Motion ("Shoot the Monkey", intertial cart with ball laucher)
3. Vector Videos (addition, etc.)
4. Newton's Laws (spring scale, air track, carts)
5. Friction and Centripetal Force
6. Conservation of Momentum (carts, students, and a bag of rice)
7. Hooke's Law and Work-Energy Relation(springs, air track, spring scale, cart)
8. Conservation of Energy(loop track, pendulum, air track with spring launcher)
9. Center of Mass (carts and platform)
10. Collisions (large and small balls, elastic and inelastic balls, gliders on air track)