Motion

- Reaction Time (1C30.55) link to picture 1c30_55.htm

Drop a meter stick and have a student catch it. Convert distance to reaction time. This is also one of the labs done in PHY 158.

- Uniform Acceleration (1C20.10) link to picture 1c20_10.htm

Shake the marble and styrofoam chip to one end of the tube. The tube is filled with air. Quickly bring the tube to a vertical position and watch the objects fall. Connect the tube to the pump. It takes less than 1 minute to pump air out of the tube. Close valve and disconnect pump and repeat as with air. Tube is about 150 cm long.

- Uniform Acceleration (1C20.16) link to picture 1c20_16.htm

-Simultaneously drop a ball and a sheet of paper

-Crumple the paper into a ball and repeat the drop

- Motion of the Center of Mass (1D40.24) link to picture 1d40_24.htm

Find center of mass of board, then of carts. Let carts explode from center. Board remains stable, showing carts center of mass does not move.

- Central Forces (1D50.40) link to picture 1d50_40.htm

-Swing pail in a large vertical circle

-The pail may also be filled with water. If you are careful, you should not get wet!