Oil and Water "U" Tube



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 Code Number :   2B40.53

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Condition :   Good   
Principle :   Moles and Periodic Chart Fundamentals  
Area of Study :  Heat and Fluids  
Equipment :   "U"  tube manometer, Kroil, colored water.

Procedure :   The demo is already set up and ready to go.  Kroil is red and the colored water is the blue.  On top of the blue column is a little bit of the oil to keep the water from evaporating.
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   References

Bruce Denardo et al.,  "A Rotating U-tube Experiment,"  AJP, Vol. 58, No. 7, (July 1990). 

Philip Pennance,  "A New Derivation of the Particle Density Formula in Quantum Mechanics,"  AJP, Vol. 58 No. 1, (January 1990).

Fernando B. Morinigo, "Fluid Oscillations in a U Tube", AJP, Vol. 40, # 2, Feb. 1972, p. 350.

 

Fh-1:  Freier and Anderson,  A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.

 

Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.,  "Hare's Apparatus,"  TPT, Vol. 26, # 1, p.  26, (January 1988).



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