(4-15-03)

Physics on the Road Programs which Include Collaboration between Physics Departments and Theatre Departments :

1. North Carolina A&T Physics Department
( Dr. Chuck Stone      worked with the Theatre Department at North Carolina A&T State University._
Dr. Chuck Stone,  Department of Physics
North Carolina A&T State University
1601 East Market Street
Greensboro, NC  27411
Phone:  (336) 256-2039
FAX:  (336) 256-0815
Email:  cstone@ncat.edu

2.  Rutgers Physics Department: David Maiullo   maiullo@physics.rutgers.edu  
worked with the theatre department at Rutgers
Maiullo;David
tel;fax:732-445-4343
tel;home:732-572-5760
tel;work:732-445-3872
Rutgers University;Department of Physics and Astronomy
136 Frelinghuysen Road;Piscataway;New Jersey;08854-8019;USA
email;internet:maiullo@physics.rutgers.edu
title:Physics Support Specialist

3. Michigan State Physics Department: Dan Stump and Sarah Wright.  (stump@pa.msu.edu).
http://www.aps.org/units/fed/spring2003/10-MSU.html
Science Theatre website at  http://www.pa.msu.edu/sci_theatre

Dan Stump
Sarah Wright
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-2320
Tel (517) 353 8662
Fax (517) 353 4500
stump@pa.msu.edu

4. Colorado State University, Brian Jones offered  a course with their  Theatre department (Shakespeare Meets Galileo)
bjones@lamar.colostate.edu.  Brian Jones runs the Colorado State at Fort Collins Physics on the Road Program.Brian Jones. F
http://www.aps.org/units/fed/spring2003/05-LSOP-FS.html
Brian Jones
Physics Department
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO  80523
(970) 491-5131
(970) 491-7947 FAX
bjones@lamar.colostate.edu

For other programs see: http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/M/PASX/links/teaching.html

and Also Special Edition, Physics on the Road Conference Proceedings 2003 : http://www.aps.org/units/fed/spring2003/index.html

And  participant List
http://www.aps.org/units/fed/spring2003/15-Participantlist2.html

Additional Usefull Links  

Einstein Year of Physics 2005: http://spider.pas.rochester.edu:8080/wwwPAS/PASforms/news/newsReader$0000363

APS PhysTEC  Physics Education Coalition : http://www.phystec.org/  

This List of Physics Demostrations available at Rochester is  on the WWW:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/physics_demos.html .
 Contact Thang Nguyen  585-275-4050. Email
thang@pas.rochester.edu .

U of R Center for Learning and Teaching Home Page: http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/CLT/CLTHomePage.html
 

(UR Demo-xxx number refers to the Partial List below, and Mx-xxxx number refers to the demos in book by Freier and Anderson
(Mechnics), Ex-xxxx (E+M) etc.

List of Demos Used in PHY121 Spring 03
- Mb-12
-  Mb-11 "uniform  and  accelerated motion
-  Mb-16 monkey and  cannon
-  Mb-24 howitzer and tunnel
-  Me-1 persistance of motion
-  Mc-1 inertia of rest
-  Mg-5  reaction carts
-   Some thing like Md-4 action and reaction with  air carts
-   Mk-1, force of friction?
-   Can I have the demo where one puts a feather  and a ball  in  an
     evacuatedglass tube and shows that they fall at the same rate
     without  air friction?
-   Mn-1, Cavendish balance for a demo
   A model large enough for students to see is better for me than a
   working experiment where the students can't really see the balls.
-  Mi-2 Recoil of a Cannon
-  Mg-3 Elastic Collisions with  air carts
-  Mg-4 Realizing equal  velocities
-  Mp-7  Irregular shape
-  Mp-12   Center of Gravity of a stool

List of Demos Used in PHY114 Spring 03
-  The  grass seed and oil demo?.
-   Ec-5 "force between electrodes"?
-   Ea-20 shielded electroscope
-   Em-3 Jacob's ladder
-   Ed-1 field and voltage
-   Ed-8 energy  stored in a capacitor
-   Ei-1 force between parallel wires,
-   Ei-8 magnetic field around a long wire,
-   Ep-8 Bending of an electron beam
-   Ei-9  magnetic field around a wire
-   Ei-10  field of a solenoid
-    Ei-11  field of a toroid
-   Ei-12  magnetic force on a wire

List of Demos Used in PHY123 in Spring 03
-      The water wave tank
-     Single and double slit diffraction
-     The film loop on double-slit diffraction
-    Three sheets of polerizer
-    Newton's rings
-    Continue Spectrum
-    Lines Spectrum

List of Demos Used in PHY100  in Spring 03

List of Demos Used in PHY141  Fall  02

List of Demos Used in PHY113  Fall 02

List of Demos Used in PHY122  in Fall 02

List of Demos Used in PHY100  in Fall 02
 
 

Current List of Available Demonstrations  (3/6/03)

IN ADDITION:  Almost all of the Demonstrations described in G.D. Freier and F. J. Anderson " A Demonstration
Handbook for Physics"  can be set up.  (published 1981 by the American Association of Physics teachers, Graduate Physics Building, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794.  (see:  http://www.sciencekit.com/Products/Display.cfm?categoryid=295528 )  UR Faculty can get this book from Thang Nguyen.

ALSO: We can set up lecture demos Described in Links at: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/teaching_resources. .html.
 

Partial List: U of R Physics Demonstration Experiments In Hoyt Hall

MECHANICS

1. Length
2.  Mass
3. Time
4. Average and Instantaneous Velocity (Air track
5. Uniform and Acceleration Motion (air track)
6. Time Intervals of Fall
7. Uniform Acceleration
8. Simultaneous Fall
9. Monkey and Cannon
10. Trajectory Model ( Bar pendulum)
11. Measurement of ' g '
12. Central Acceleration
13. Velocity and Central Acceleration
14. Uniform motion
15. Inertia at rest
16. Inertia Balls
17. Inertia Block
I8. Inertia at Rest ( Dinner setting)
19. Reaction Carts
20. Force, Mass, and Acceleration
21. Action and Reaction with Air Carts
22. Air table and pucks
23. Weight of a Mass
24. Vanishing Weight
25. Collision Balls
26. Elastic Collisions with Air carts
27. Realizing Equal Velocities
28. Reaction Carts ( using skates board
29. Water rocket
30. ballistic pendulum
31. Velocity of Bullet using ballistic pendulum
32. Vector sum of force
33. Force on an Inclined plane or force table
34. Breaking Wire
 35. Force of Friction
36.  Rolling and Sliding Friction
36a. " C ' Clamp and Blocks
37. Angle of Repose
38. Tension in a String
39. Centripetal force
40. Rolling Chain
41. Centrifuge (glass vessel, flexible hoops, fly-bell governor )
42. Loop the Loop
43. Hand Cranked Centrifuge ( two test tubes)
44. Equal pressure surface
45. Cavendish Balance
46. load Boom
47. Force table (Vertical Mt., check combination of weight)
48, Moments
49. Loaded Beam
50. Forces on a Ladder
51. Center of Mass Motion ( Air track with pendulum cart)
52. Discus with Shipping center CM
53. Disc rolling Uphill
54. Irregular Shape ( finding the mass center)
55. Leaning Tower of Pisa
56. Shifting Center of Gravity( a set of blocks)
57. Tipping Block on Incline
58. Weight of a Broom
59. Motion of center of mass on a air table
60. Stability of Cone and Sphere
61. Stability of Chairs ( one leg, three legs, four legs)
62. Rolling Uphill
63. Conservation of Energy
64. Stopped Pendulum
65. Angular Motion
66. Large Pendulum

ROTATIONAL MOTION
67. Racing discs
68. Rotational Energy
69. Whirligig
70. Angular Momentum ( rotating platform and a heavy dumbbell in each hand)
80. Buzz Button
 81. Impact Parameter
82. Bicycle Wheel
83. Precession of Gyro
84. Old Fashioned Top
85. Gyro in a Suitcase
86. Spin and Rotation ( Gyroscope with gimbals and turntable)
87. Instantaneous Axis
88. Precessing Tops
99. Balancing a Gyroscope on two wheels (monorall car)
100. Bicycle Effects
101. Spin Flipping ( using bicycle wheels)
102. Tipsy-Top
103. Hammer driver ( hemmer and nails Is 104. Hydraulic Jacks)

OSCILLATORS
105. Simple Harmonic Motion
106. Projection Model of SHM
107. Mass on Spring
108. Force and Displacement
109. Clockspring pendulum
110. Air cart Mass and Spring
111. Damped Pendulum
112. Adjustable Coupled Pendulum
113. Wilburforce Pendulum
114. Coupled Pendulums
115. Coupled Oscillators (Air cart)
116. Falling Chimney
117. Torsion pendulum
118. Foucault Pendulum
119. Model of Foucault Pendulum
120. Crystal Model
121. Crystal Structure
122. Shear of a Book
123. Shear of a Sponge
124. Poisson's Ratio I Using a Rubber Hose
125. Modulus Of Rigidity FLUIDS
124A. Pressure Independent of Direction
 125. Pascal Vases
126. Wasser Wage
127. Pascal Fountain
128. Water Pressure
129. Crush Can with pressure
130. Ordinary Siphon
131. Intermittent Siphon
132. Mariotte Flask and Siphon( Const.rate flow of Siphon)
133. Archimedes  Principal
134. Loss of Weight In water
135. Cartesian Diver
136 Submerged Float
137. Soap Bubbles
138. Cylindrical Soap Film
139. Force of Film
140. Capillary Tubes
141. surface tension Hyperbole
142. Cohesion plates
143, Ring and Thread
144. Lifting Plate
145, Pressure drop along a line
146, Floating Objects in Jet Stream
147. Velocity of Efflux
148. Bottle and Candle
149. Terminal velocity
150. Compressibility of Water

HEAT

151. Mercury Thermometer
152. Gas Thermometer
153. Constant volume Thermometer
154. Bimetal strip
155. Thermostat
156. Ball and Ring
157. Expansion of Wire
158. Forces caused by change of Length
159. Expansion of Fluids
160. Convection of Gbs
161. Convection of Liquids
162, Conduction of Heat
163. Fire Maker
164. Radiation from different Surfaces
 165. Transmission Of Radiant Heat
166. Model of P-V-T Surface
167. Model for Kinetic Theory of Gases
l68. Brownian Motion 169. Radiometer
170.  Cryophorous
171. Change of Volume with Change of state( balloon and Dry-ice in a test tube )
172. Change of Volume with Change of Temperature
173. Change of Volume with Change of state (2 balloon with  C02 and He and liquid Nitrogen)
174.  Regulation
175. Rubber at Low Temperature
176. Lead Bell or Lead Spring
177. Viscous Alcohol
178. Sling Psychrometer
179. Wilson Cloud Chamber
180. Order and disorder
181. Rubber band Motor
182.  Steam Engine
183. Hero's Engine

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

154. Electrostatic Charge (Glass and Ebonite Rods ,balloon)
185. Electroscope
186. Electrostatic Repulsion and Attraction
187. Charges on Conductors
188. Electricfield Strings
189. induction Charge
190. Surface Charge
191. ElectrophorouS
192. Wimshurst Machine
193. Surface Charge Density
194. Electric Field between Electrodes
195. Electric Wind
196. Charge and Discharge with a Pingpong.
197. Leyden Jar
198. Electric Chimes
199. Electrostatic Pinwheel
200. Electrostatic Precipitator (fill with Smoke)
201. Electrostatic Generator
 202, Line force ( Hair on the Head )
203. Force between Electrodes
204. Field and Voltage ( Capacitor Plate)
205. Dielectrics
206. Charge on a Capacitor
207. Discharge of a Capacitor
208. Energy Stored in a Capacitor ( Drive a Motor)
209. Conductivity of Solution
210. Ohm ' s Law ( Voltmeter , Ampmeter and Rheostat)
211. Characteristic Resistances
212. Temperature Dependence of Resistance
213. Wheatstone Bridge
214. Series and Parallel of resistances (use light Bulbs)
215. Force between Parallel Wires
216. Interacting of Solenoids
217. Interaction of Flat Coil ( using a coil or Bar Magnet)
218. Magnetic Field Around a long Wire
219. Field of a Solenoid
220. Wire carry current in Magnetic Field
221. Barlow Wheel 222. He] I -Voltage
223. Forces on an Electron Boom
224. DC Motor
225. Galvanometer Principle
226. Sensitivity and Resistance of Galvanometer
227. Force Due to Induced Current
228. Current and forces by Induction
229. Direction of Induced Current
230.  Induced current Due to changing Currents
231. Iron Core in Mutual Inductance
232. Eddy Currents in a Pendulum
233. Flying Rings
234. Boll water or frying Egg ( caused by Eddy currents)
235. Primary current Change with Secondary Load
236. Jacob's Ladder (use Tesla Coil
237. Modular Transformer
238. Spark Coil (use Tesla Coil)
240. Light under Water
241. Induced E. M. F.
242. Rotating Bell
243.  RL time Constant
244. RC Time Constant
245. Current in an Inductive Circuit
 246. Ringing Circuit
247. RLC In Resonant circuit
248. Tesla Coil
249. Fluorescent Light Bulb in Radiation Field)
250, High Freq. Current( need good isolated Stool)
251. Crookes tube
252. Bending of an Electron Beam
253. Paddlewheel
254. Maltese Cross
255. e/m For Electrons
256. Radiation From a Dipole
257. Lecher Wires
258. Field of Magnet
259. Barkhausen Effect
260. Magnetic Domains
261. Paramagnetism
262. magnetic Force
263. Curie Point ( Wire loses Its magnetic Properties when it becomes red hot)
264. Hysteresis Loop
265. Thermocouple
266. Thermocouple Magnet

SOUND

267. Coupled Pendulums
268. Wave Pulse on a Rope
269. Wave Pulse on a Rope
270. Water, Sound Wave Model of Phase Velocity
271. Traveling Waves
271 Standing Waves
272. Wave Pulses in a Slinky Spring
273. Waves on Air Track
274. Kundt's Tube and Sawdust
275. Tuned Resonance Tube
276. Resonance tube
277. Organ Pipe
278. Variable Pitch Organ Pipe
279. Tuning Forks with Resonators
280. Galton Whistle
281. Directional Transmission of Wave Sound (Short wave)
282. Interference of Sound.
283. No Sound through Vacuum
 284. Range of Hearing
285. Low Frequency Tuning Fork
286. Chord
287. One String Violin
288. Interference of sound and sound waves
289. Ripple Tank (single, Double source)
290. Plane Ways
291. Ripple Tank ( Single , Double Slit)
292, Lissajous Figures on an Oscilloscope
93. Straight line Propagation of light
294. Pinhole Projection
295. Position of Image ( using Mirror
296. Mirror at an Angle or parallel
297. Inverse Image ( using Lenz )
298. Perversion ( not inverse image
299. Optical Disc-Curved Mirror
300. Image with Concage Mirror
301. No image with Convex Mirror Wide angle Image
302. Lighting a Cigarette
303. Image of a Bird in a Cage
304. Refraction at the Surface of Water
305. Law of Refraction
306. Brocken Stick
307. Critical Angle
308. Total Reflection from Water Surface
309. Light  Pipe
310. Minimum Deviation of a Prism
311. Double Reflection at the Critical Angle
312. Optical Disc
 -Mirror
 -Refraction at Curved Surface
 -Convex Lenses
 -Concave Lenses
 -Prism
 -Cicular Glass Plate
313. Water lens ( Flask filled with Water)
314. Diverging Beam (Flask water containing fluorescein dye)
315. continue Spectrum
316. Rainbow
317. Ultraviolet Spectrum
318. Black Light
 319. Photoelectric Effect
320. Wave Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation
321. Single Slit Diffraction Pattern
322. Adjustable Slit
323. Interference Pattern of two Slits
 - Three Slits
 - Four Slits
 - Number of Slits
324. Model of Crystal Lattice
325. Soap Film Interference
326. Newton ' s Rings
327. Michelson Interferometer
328. Diffraction
329. Polarization   of Electromagnetic Waves
330. polarization of light by Reflection
331. Crystal Model
332. Ordinary and Extraordinary Ray (using Calcite crystal)
333. Polaroids as Polarizer and Analyzer
334. Light Scattering ( sun set )
335. Polarization