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| Motion Discovery | |
| What does motion look like? | |
| How does a sailboat sail against the wind? | |
| Marble race | |
| Rolling chair and basketball | |
| Target practice | |
| Threading the needle | |
| How hard was that football kicked? | |
| Where should you aim a coconut to reach a nervous monkey in a tree? | |
| Going in circles | |
| What is the direction of a satellite's velocity? | |
| What is the string that keeps the planets in orbit? | |
| How fast can you go around a curve? | |
| Ping pong balls racing in a beaker | |
| How fast do you have to swing pail filled with water to not get wet? | |
| Can the air freshener hanging from you rear view mirror tell if you are speeding? | |
| Gravity | |
| What planet are we on? | |
| The Buck stops here | |
| Weightless water | |
| The race to the ground | |
| Weighing the earth | |
| Force & Newton''s Laws | |
| Newton''s 1st - What to do if you spill gravy on the tablecloth. 21: Newton''s 1st - Poker chips, weight on string and a frictionless puck | |
| Newton''s 2nd - What to do about that body at rest? | |
| Newton''s 3rd - Skateboarders having a catch with a bowling ball | |
| Newton''s 3rd - Bottle rockets - why do they need water? | |
| Ping pong balls on a scale; bird in a truck | |
| Friction: getting going and keeping going | |
| Spring: the further you get the harder it gets | |
| Atwood''s machine | |
| Terminal velocity | |
| Painter on a scaffold | |
| Hanging sign | |
| Pressure - Imploding cans | |
| Pressure - Supporting water in cup | |
| Sometime the news can be heavy | |
| How much weight can a suction cup lift? | |
| An air pressure fountain | |
| Why astronauts don't use shaving cream in space | |
| Relaxing on a bed of nails | |
| Blowing hanging cans apart | |
| How to balance a broom | |
| Move your fingers to the center of a meter stick | |
| How far can 4 bricks extend beyond the edge of a table? How about 100? | |
| Energy / momentum Discovery | |
| The pendulum and your physics teacher's Ming dynasty vase | |
| Does it matter which path a rolling ball on a frictionless surface follows? | |
| Racing balls - the high road vs the low road. Which wins? | |
| Where can you find a perfect 90 degree angle in nature? | |
| Measuring momentum before and after - in-elastic | |
| Measuring momentum before and after - recoil | |
| Throwing an egg. Dropping a watermelon | |
| Using gravity to move a car | |
| How can CSI measure muzzle velocity? | |
| Riding a bike | |
| Ice skaters and dumbbells | |
| Spinning bucket. What caused Voyager to point in the wrong direction? | |
| The great soup can race | |
| Slinkies and snakies | |
| Rolling uphill | |
| Getting around the loop | |
| Loop de loop de loop | |
| Sound and Waves | |
| What does sound look like? What to do if you don't have an oscilloscope? | |
| Approaching the light. How quickly does it get brighter? | |
| Simple harmonic motion | |
| Simple harmonic motion | |
| Springs and electromagnets | |
| When does a spring pendulum have zero velocity | |
| Speed of sound - timing an echo old school. Why Galileo failed with light | |
| Speed of sound - resonance in a cylinder | |
| Observing water waves | |
| Interference. Using this to measure the speed of sound. How to do the same thing with light | |
| Speed of sound - phase shift method | |
| Bunsen burner pipe organ | |
| Pendulum waves | |
| Light73: Speed of light in air - phase shift method | |
| How do we know that light is a wave? | |
| How far apart are the crests of a light wave? | |
| Tracing the path of light using a laser | |
| How far apart are the grooves in a CD? | |
| How does a satellite dish work? | |
| Finding the speed of light in glass and water | |
| Sunglasses and calculator displays | |
| What is the wire of a fiber optic network? | |
| How do lenses focus light rays? | |
| How do mirrors focus light rays? | |
| The disappearing beaker | |
| Hot and Cold85: How much heat is needed to melt Greenland? | |
| How much will sea level rise if ocean temperature rises? | |
| What is the coldest possible temperature | |
| Experimenting with liquid nitrogen: fruit, cork gun, inflate balloon | |
| How hot is red hot? How cold is ice cold? | |
| Boiling water in a paper cup. Burning a water balloon | |
| Boiling water with ice | |
| Seebeck effect / Peltier effect | |
| Electricity and Magnetism | |
| Static charges | |
| Making lightening | |
| Running into resistance | |
| Resistor circuit boards | |
| How does heat affect resistance? | |
| When does iron conduct electricity better than copper? | |
| Separating and storing charges | |
| The next best thing to having a battery | |
| Magnetic levitation using superconductivity | |
| Flying a magnetic kite | |
| The magnetic field of a current-carrying wire | |
| Current generated by a magnet | |
| Electromagnetic ring tosser | |
| If copper is not magnetic, why does it effect a falling magnet? | |
| Effect of a magnet on an electron beam | |
| What is the shape of a magnetic field? | |
| Building a simple motor | |
| Building a simple generator | |
| What happens to a current carrying wire in magnetic field? | |
| Magnetic accelerator | |
| Listening to AC | |
| The Earth | |
| How big is the earth? | |
| Measuring the earth''s magnetic field | |
| Weighing the earth | |
| How do we know what is inside the earth? | |
| The Twentieth Century | |
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