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Magnetic Field Lines Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 34 seconds Magnetic field lines around a simple bar magnet can be shown by magnetic particles (iron filings here) suspended in a viscous fluid. For more information on this and many other classroom demos of physics and astronomy, please visit: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: fields, magnetism, physics |
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Hooke's Law and Spring Constant Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 27 seconds See the linear relationship between the distance a spring is extended and the amount of force applied to it. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos (and to see the data taken in the video graphed!), please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: constant, demo, hookes, law, physics, spring |
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Seeing Atomic Spectra Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 88 seconds Emission spectra from hydrogen, krypton and water vapour For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: emission, hydrogen, krypton, spectra, vapour, water |
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Waiter's Tray - Bloopers Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 48 seconds Physics experiments do not always work first time... Too see it work properly, please see: http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=Y5_jik5Wl Nw For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: bloopers, experiments, failed, tray, waiters |
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Centripetal Force Demo Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 41 seconds See the "force" of rotational motion acting on a weight. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: centripetal, demo, forces, mechanics, physics, rotational |
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Newton's Pendulum Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 16 seconds The physics behind the popular desk toy. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demo, newtons, pendulum, physics, toys |
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Red Sunsets in the Classroom Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 73 seconds A demonstration on how atmospheric scattering affects the colour of the sun during a sunset. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: atmosphere, scattering, sun, sunset |
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Spinning Stool with Wheel Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 20 seconds See an amazing demonstration of conservation of angular momentum. The direction of the spin of the person depends explicitly on how the spinning bicycle wheel is held. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: angular, bicycle, demos, momentum, physics, spinning, stool, wheel |
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Ball & Feather Drop Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 14 seconds Watch as a ball and feather drop in a vacuum. Watch and see which lands first! For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: ball, demo, drop, feather, galileo, physics, vacuum |
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Styrofoam Peanut Fountain Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 30 seconds Watch the effect of electric charging has on a box of styrofoam packing peanuts. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demos, electrostatics, peanuts, physics, vandegraaf |
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Bending Electron Beam Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 18 seconds An electron beam being manipulated in a cathode ray tube. For more information on this demo and many others, please visit our website: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: cathode, classroom, demonstrations, physics, ray |
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Electrostatically Bending Water Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 23 seconds A stream of water from a regular tap is deflected in the presence of an electrostatically charged object. For more information on this and other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: bending, demos, electrostatics, physics, water |
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Electrostatic Pie Plates Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 17 seconds See what happens to stacked pie plates when they are charged up! For more on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demo, electrostatics, physics, pie, plates |
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Rail Gun Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 9 seconds A demonstration of the effects of eddy currents and magnetic fields. The cylinder is made of aluminum, a non-ferromagnetic material. For more information of this and many other physics and astronomy classroom demonstrations, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: classroom, current, demo, eddy, electromagnetism, gun, rail |
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Nose Crusher Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 9 seconds Watch a bowling ball pendulum come close to smashing a physicist's nose. But the physicist knows it can never reach him... For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: conservation, energy, kinetic, laws, newtons, physics, potential |
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Internal Reflection Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 13 seconds Total internal reflection through a glass prism. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demos, internal, optics, physics, reflection, total |
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Timed Free Fall Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 14 seconds See how to measure the velocity of a falling object. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demos, fall, free, laws, newtons, physics |
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Induced Current Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 11 seconds Current is induced in a coil of conducting wire in the presence of a changing magnetic field. For more information about this and many other classroom demos of physics and astronomy, please see: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: classroom, current, demos, electromagnetism, induced, physics |
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Magnetic Field Wires Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 13 seconds Watch as two suspended wires are attracted and repelled from one another by the magnetic fields formed by passing electrical current. For information on this and other demonstrations of physics and astronomy, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: current, demos, electromagnetism, fields, physics |
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Electron Mass-Charge Ratio Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 8 seconds A video of a high-voltage electron beam being bent in the presence of an increasing magnetic field. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy classroom demonstrations, please visit our website at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: charge, classroom, demonstrations, em, electron, mass, physics |
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Effect of the Friction Coefficient Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 14 seconds See the effect of different friction properties on a sliding block. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demos, friction, physics |
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SuperNova Bounce Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 22 seconds The Astroblaster apparatus demonstrates how the outer layers of a dying star are accelerated outwards during a supernova explosion. For more information on this and many other physics and astronomy demos, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: star, supernova |
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Electron Standing Waves Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 26 seconds A simple vibrating ring of wire shows the quantum nature of electron standing waves. For more information on this and many other demos pf physics and astronomy, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: demos, electron, modern, physics, quantum, resonance, standing, waves |
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Spectroscopy Posted by: SMUPhysics
Video duration: 88 seconds Emission spectra from Hydrogen, Krypton and water vapour. For more information on this and other physics and astronomy classroom demos, please visit: http://www.ap.smu .ca/demonstrations Related: emission, hydrogen, krypton, spectra, vapour, water |























