WFU Physics Lecture Demonstrations

5A ELECTROSTATICS

 
• 5A10 Producing Static Charge
• 5A10.10[E-161 = 175-defg] Rods, Fur and Silk
• 5A10.14~[E-161B]Charged Balloons
• 5A10.37 [E-161H] Electrostatic Ruler and Cloth
 
• 5A20 Coulomb's Law
• 5A20.10 [E-162 = 175-h] Meterstick on a Pivot
• 5A20.20 Pith Balls - Lecture Size
 
• 5A22 Electrostatic Meters
• 5A22.30 [E-163] Projection Electroscope
 
• 5A40 Induced Charge
• 5A40.10 [E-165 & 175-b] Charging Spheres by Induction
 
• 5A50 Electrostatic Machines
• 5A50.10 [E-166 = 175-y] Wimshurst Machine
• 5A50.30 [E-175Z] Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator
 

• 5B10 Electric Field
• 5B10.15 [E-175Z+] String Streamers off VDG
• 5B10.30 [E-175-k] Wimshurst Bell Chimes
 
• 5B20 Gauss' Law
• 5B20.10 [E-175-c] Faraday's Ice Pail
 
• 5B30 Electrostatic Potential
• 5B30.30 Lightning Chooses Rod over Sphere
• 5B30.50 Electrostatic Pinwheel
 

• 5C10 Capacitors
• 5C10.10 [E-176-f] Capacitor Assortment
• 5C10.20 [E-176A] Adjustable Distance Parallel Plate Capacitor
 
• 5C20 Dielectric
• 5C20.10 [E-176A+] Capacitor with Dielectric Sheets
 
• 5C30 Energy Stored in a Capacitor
• 5C30.20 Short a Capacitor
 

 
• 5D20 Resistivity and Temperature
• 5D20.10 Wire Coil in Liquid Nitrogen
 
• 5D30 Conduction in Solutions
• 5D30.10 [E-179] Conduction In Liquids
 
• 5D40 Conduction in Gasses
• 5D40.10 [E-160GW] Jacob's Ladder
 

• 5E50 Thermoelectricity
• 5E50.12 [E-80] Thermoelectric Generator
  

• 5F10 Ohm's Law
• 5F10.10 [E-177+] Ohm's Law
 
• 5F15 Power and Energy
• 5F15.35 [E-180+] Fuse Wire with Increasing Load

 

• 5F20 Circuit Analysis
  • 5F20.50 Series and Parallel Circuits

 

  

5G MAGNETIC MATERIALS

• 5G50 Temperature and Magnetism
  • 5G50.50 Meisser Effect - Superconductor Demo
    

5H MAGNETIC FIELDS & FORCES

• 5H10 Magnetic Fields
  • 5H10.12 Magnaprobe
  • 5H10.20 Oersted's Effect
  
  
• 5H30 Force on Moving Charges
  • 5H30.10 [B-184$] Cathode Ray Tube

   

• 5H40 Force on Current in Wires
  • 5H40.10 [B-185B] Repulsion of Parallel Wires
  • 5H40.15 Magnetic Interaction of Coils
  • 5H40.23 [B-187] Victorian Bulb Filament in Magnetic Field
  • 5H40.30 Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire

   

5J INDUCTANCE

• See Lab Manager for possible variants

5K ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION

• 5K10 Induced Currents and Forces

• 5K10.20 Faraday's Law
• 5K10.30 Induced Current w/Two Coils
• 5K20 Eddy Currents
  • 5K20.11 Eddy Current Pendulum (old)
  • 5K20.16 Eddy Current Plate
  • 5K20.21 Eddy Current Tube
  • 5K20.30 Jumping Ring
• 5K30 Transformers
  • 5K30.61 Two Coil Transformer

• 5K40 Motors and Generators
  • 5K40.40 Motor/Generator

   

5L AC CIRCUITS

• 5L20 AC RLC Circuits
  • 5L20.26 LC Parallel Resonance

• 5L30 Rectifiers and Filters
  • 5L30.20 Blinky Whirligig

   

5N ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

• 5N10 Transmission Lines and Antennae
  • 5N1060 Radio Waves
  • 5N1061 Polarization of Radio Waves

   

• 5N20 Tesla Coil
  • 5N20.50 Flourescent Tube in Magnetic Field