PY106 Demos

PY106 Demos - Spring 1999

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Course schedule:

Day 1 - 1-11-99
Section A and section B - Electric Charge , Electrostatic Charging


The video camera was used with several of these demos.

Section C in addition to above (add Coulomb's law)

Day 2 - 1-13-99
Section A and section B - Coulomb's law

Section C - Electric field

Day 3 - Electric field
1-15-99 : Section A and section B

Day 4 - Electric field near conductors
1-20-99

Section C - Electric field

Day 5 - Potential and potential energy
1-22-99

Day 6 - Capacitors
1-25-99

Section C -Capacitors

Day 7 - Batteries; current; resistance
1-27-99

Section C - Capacitors; Ohm's law

Day 8 - Power and AC
1-29-99

Day 9 - Series and parallel circuits
2-1-99

Section C - AC; Series and parallel

Day 10 - Kirchoff's Rules
2-3-99

Section C - Kirchoff's Rules; RC Circuits

Day 11 - RC Circuits, Meters
2-5-99

Day 12 - Magnetic fields
2-8-99

Section C - Magnetic fields

Day 13 - Magnetic forces
2-10-99

Section C - Magnetic forces

Day 14 - Applications of magnetism
2-12-99

Day 15 - Magnetic materials
2-16-99

Section C - Induction

Day 16 - Induction
2-17-99

Section C - Induction and eddy currents

Day 17 - Eddy currents; Electric generators
2-19-99

Day 18 - Review for test 1
2-22-99

Section C - Transformers

Day 19 - Transformers
2-24-99

Section C - AC circuits

Day 20 - AC Circuits
2-26-99

Day 21 - Waves
3-1-99

Section C - AC circuits; Waves

Day 22 - Standing waves
3-3-99

Section C - Standing waves, Refraction and diffraction

Day 23 - Refraction and diffraction
3-5-99

Day 24 - Sound
3-15-99

Section C - Refraction and diffraction; Sound

Day 25 - Musical instruments
3-17-99

Section C - Music; interference

Day 26 - Interference
3-19-99

Day 27 - Doppler effect; EM Waves
3-22-99

Section C -EM Waves; Reflection

Day 28 - Reflection
3-24-99

Section C - Spherical mirrors

Day 29 - Spherical mirrors; Refraction
3-26-99

Day 30 - Refraction
3-29-99

Section C -Refraction; Lenses

Day 31 - Lenses
3-31-99

Section C - Interference and Diffraction

Day 32 - Interference and Diffraction
4-2-99

Day 33 - Review for test 2
4-5-99

Section C - Wave properties of light; Review

Day 34 - Wave properties of light
4-7-99

Section C - Review

Day 35 - Thin film interference
4-9-99

Day 36 - Polarization and scattering
4-12-99

Day 37 - Cameras and the human eye
4-14-99

Day 38 - Telescopes and microscopes
4-16-99

Day 39 - Resolution; x-ray diffraction
4-21-99

Day 40 - Electrons, photons, and the photo-electric effect
4-23-99

Day 41 - Wave-particle duality
4-26-99

Section C - Wave-particle duality and the Bohr model

Day 42 - The Bohr model
4-28-99

Day 43 - Quantum theory
4-30-99