Lecture Demonstrations

Lecture demonstrations make physics come alive. They can amaze us even as they educate us. Some of our best demos are organized here, where they can be browsed either topically or alphabetically. This list was last updated 2013 June 23.

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Expandable Topical List

    1. TBA
    2. TBA
    3. TBA
        1. Moment of Inertia Wands
        2. TBA
        3. TBA
        1. TBA
        2. TBA
        3. TBA
        1. Newtonian Cradle
        2. TBA
        3. TBA
        1. Vortx Coin Well
        2. Tensor of Inertia Wood Block
        3. Rolling Disks
      1. Black Board Mechanics
      1. Top-a-Top
      2. Gyroscope
      3. Vortx Coin Well
      4. Tornado in a Bottle
      5. Spinning Top
        1. Projectile Motion Demonstration
        1. Bird Stand
        2. Irregular Slab
      1. Mercury Tube
      2. Thermal Expansion Ball and Ring
      3. Compound Bar
      4. Magdeburg Hemispheres
        1. Heat Pipe
        2. Magdeburg Hemispheres
        3. Magdeburg Hemispheres
        4. Magdeburg Hemispheres
        1. Thermal Radiation Sensor
        2. Radioactivity Demonstrator
        3. Geiger-Muller Counter
        4. G-M Tube/Power Supply
      1. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      2. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      3. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      4. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      1. Pulse Glasses
      2. ThermoElectric Converter
      3. Cryophorus
      4. Drinking Bird
      1. Fishing Bobbers
      2. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      3. Magdeburg Hemispheres
      4. Magdeburg Hemispheres
        1. Longitudinal Wave Spring
        2. Slinky
        3. Longspring
        4. Springs Weights
        1. School Bell
      1. Magnets
      2. Metal
      3. Strong Magnet
      4. Super Conductivity
      1. Capacitors
      1. Compass Needles
      2. Levitating Magnets
      3. Precise Compass
      4. Electromagnetic Ring Launcher
      5. Spacewheel
      1. Levitating Magnet
      2. Cathoderay
      3. Piezoelectric Sparker
      4. Electric Force Experiment
      5. Wimshurst Machine
      1. Ammeter
      2. Voltmeter
      3. Coil Detector
      4. Potentiometer
      5. Magnetic Field Sensor
      6. Closed Case Form Electroscope
      7. Universal Galvanometer
      8. Weston's Direct Reading Volt-Ammeter
      1. Simple Motor
      2. Force on Current-Carrying Wire Experiment
      3. Ampere DC Power Supply
      4. Battery Powered Cart Fan
      5. Sunshine Carbon Arc Lamp
      1. Power Transformers
      2. Transformers
      3. Hand Generator
      4. Earth and Mutual Inductor
      1. Rheostat
      2. Resistor
      3. Various Resistors
      1. Switches
      2. Lights for Circuits
      3. TBA
      1. Magnetic Field Demonstration
      2. TBA
      3. TBA
          1. Plexiglas Cylinder
          2. Fiber Optic Cable
          1. Mirrors
          1. Lenses
          2. Magnifying Lenses
          3. Fresnel Lenses
          1. Prisms
          1. Plastic Items
          1. Optical Pieces and Parts
          2. Optical Slides with White and Black Marks
          3. 6" x 6" Square Slides
          4. Modern Physics Slides
          1. 3D Glasses
          2. Mirage
          3. White Light Holograms
          1. Bausch & Lomb Optical Microscope
          2. Spyglass
          1. Photo-Reflective Sensor
          2. Color Addition Projector
          1. Black Board Optics
      1. Polarization by Absorption
      2. Polarization by Reflection
      3. Polarizer Film
      4. Circular Polarizing Filter
      5. Linear Polarizers
      1. C Spectra Sheets
      2. Diffraction Grating Sheet
    1. TBA
    2. TBA
    3. TBA
    1. Sound Producing Ball
    2. TBA
    3. TBA
      1. Boomerang
      2. Toys
      3. Magnetic Toy
      4. Silly Putty
      5. Antimissile Rocket
      6. Bubbles
      7. Radiometer
      8. Glowing Insects
      1. Demonstration Balls
      2. Happy Balls
      3. Smart Ball
      1. Blackboard Mechanics
      2. Black Board Optics
      1. Bunsen Burners
      2. Centimeter Cube
      3. Rocket Engine Test Stand
      4. Blackboard Mechanics
      5. Fluorescent Light
      6. Sieve
      7. Starch
      8. Wooden Caliper
      9. Color Wheels
      10. Glass Shelving
      11. Glass Ruler
      12. Rayovac Renewal Power Station
      13. Rubberbands

Expandable Alphabetical List

    1. Ammeter
    2. Ampere DC Power Supply
    3. Antimissile Rocket
    4. Bausch & Lomb Optical Microscope
    5. Bell for School
    6. Black Board Mechanics
    7. Blackboard Optics
    8. Boomerang
    9. Bubbles
    10. Bunsen Burners
    11. Capacitors
    12. Cart Fan
    13. Cathoderay
    14. Centimeter Cube
    15. Circular Polarizing Filter
    16. Closed Case Form Electroscope
    17. Coil Detector
    18. Color Addition Projector
    19. Color Wheel
    20. Compass
    21. Compound Bar
    22. Cryophorus
    23. Current Carrying Wire Experiment
    24. Demonstration Balls
    25. Diffraction Grating Sheet
    26. Drinking Bird
    27. Earth and Mutual Inductor
    28. Electric Force Experiment
    29. Electromagnet Ring Launcher
    30. Fiber Optic Cable
    31. Fluorescent Light
    32. Fresnel Lenses
    33. G-M Tube ⁄ Power Supply
    34. Geiger-Muller Counter
    35. Generator
    36. Glass Ruler
    37. Glass Shelving
    38. Glowing Insects
    39. Gyroscope
    40. Hand Generator
    41. Happy Balls
    42. Heat Pipe
    43. Irregular Slab
    44. Lenses
    45. Levitating Magnet
    46. Lights
    47. Linear Polarizers
    48. Long Glass Rod
    49. Longitudinal Wave Spring
    50. Long Spring
    51. Magnetic Field Demonstration
    52. Magnetic Field Sensor
    53. Magnetic Toy
    54. Magnets
    55. Magnifying Lenses
    56. Mercury Tube
    57. Metal
    58. Mirage
    59. Mirrors
    60. Modern Physics Slides
    61. Moment of Inertia Wands
    62. Newtonian Cradle
    63. Optical Pieces and Parts
    64. Optical Slides with White and Black Marks
    65. Photo Reflective Sensor
    66. Piezoelectric Sparker
    67. Polarization Demonstration
    68. Polarizer Film
    69. Polarizers
    70. Potentiometer
    71. Power Supply
    72. Power Transformer
    73. Precise Compass
    74. Prism
    75. Projectile Motion
    76. Pulse Glasses
    77. Radioactivity Demonstrator
    78. Radiometer
    79. Rayovac Renewal Power Station
    80. Resistor
    81. Rheostat
    82. Rocket Engine Test Stand
    83. Rolling Disks
    84. Rubberband
    85. Sieve
    86. Silly Putty
    87. Simple Motor
    88. Slinky
    89. Smart Ball
    90. Sound Producing Ball
    91. Space Wheel
    92. Spinning Top
    93. Springs with Weights
    94. Spyglass
    95. Starch
    96. Bird Stand
    97. Stress in Plastics
    98. Strong Magnet
    99. Sunshine Carbon Arch Lamp
    100. Super Conductivity
    101. Switches
    102. Tensor of Inertia of Wooden Block and Wine Bottle
    103. Thermal Expansion Ball and Ring
    104. Thermal Radiation Sensor
    105. Thermo-Electric Converter
    106. Top-a-Top
    107. Tornado in a Bottle
    108. Total Internal Reflection
    109. Toys
    110. Transformer
    111. Universal Galvanometer
    112. Various Resistors
    113. Voltmeter
    114. Vortx
    115. Weston's Direct Reading Volt-Ammeter
    116. White Light Holograms
    117. Wimshurst Machine
    118. Wooden Caliper