Mechanics

Support Equipment

  • 1 -00.00 - Support Equipment used for Mechanics

Measurement

Basic Units

Error and Accuracy

  • 1A20.20 - Statistics and Probabilities - Coin Flip
  • 1A20.25 - Statistics and Probabilities - Dice
  • 1A20.27 - Statistics and Probabilities - Ping Pong Balls

Coordinate Systems

Vectors

Math Topics

Scaling

Motion in One Dimension

Velocity

  • 1C10.10 - Car on a Moving Sheet - Velocity Addition
  • 1C10.20 - Dynamics Carts - Pasco
  • 1C10.25 - Air Track - Constant Velocity
  • 1C10.62 - Time of Flight

Uniform Acceleration

  • 1C20.10 - Free-fall in a Vacuum (Penny and Feather Demo)
  • 1C20.18? - Free-fall and Air Resistance
  • 1C20.20 - Free-fall - Time Intervals
  • 1C20.30 - Inclined Air Track - Timed Intervals

Measuring g

Motion in Two Dimensions

Displacement in Two Dimensions

Velocity, Position, and Acceleration

Motion of the Center of Mass

Central Forces

  • 1D50.20 - Whirligig
  • 1D50.25 - Conical Pendulum
  • 1D50.26 - Conical Pendulum - Model Plane on a String
  • 1D50.40 - Central Forces - Pail of Water
  • 1D50.45 - Central Forces - Penny & Coat Hanger
  • 1D50.49 - Central Forces - Ball on Hoop
  • 1D50.50 - Central Forces - Centripetal Force
  • 1D50.52? - Central Forces - Centripetal Force - 1 to 4 mass ratio
  • 1D50.69 - Central Forces Puzzle

Deformation by Central Forces

  • 1D52.10 - Central Forces - Centrifugal Flattening
  • 1D52.20 - Water Parabola
  • 1D52.30 - Water Centrifuge with Cork and Balls
  • 1D52.40 - Rotating Candle

Centrifugal Escape

  • 1D55.10 - Central Forces - Broken Ring
  • 1D55.15 - Central Forces - T-Ball on a String
  • 1D55.17 - Escape Velocity (Escape from a Gravity Well) - ref. Astronomy
  • 1D55.20 - Tangential Central Forces - Grinding Wheel & Sparks

Projectile Motion

  • 1D60.10 - Property of Inertia Demo - Jeep & Gun
  • 1D60.12 - Property of Inertia - Air Track
  • 1D60.20 - Simultaneous Fall - 2nd Law Apparatus
  • 1D60.30 - Shoot the Monkey
  • 1D60.40 - Projectile Motion - Spring Gun
  • 1D60.55 - Parabolic Trajectory on an Incline Plane
  • 1D60.90 - Projectile Motion - "Newton's Cannon" computer simulations

Relative Motion

Moving Reference Frames

Rotating Reference Frames

Coriolis Effect

Newton's First Law

Measuring Inertia

Inertia of Rest

  • 1F20.10 - Inertia of Rest - Mass and Strings
  • 1F20.14? - Inertia of Rest - Tissue Paper Rolls
  • 1F20.30 - Inertia of Rest - Glass of Water
  • 1F20.33 - Inertia of Rest - Cylinder
  • 1F20.34 - Inertia of Rest - Coin/Card Snap
  • 1F20.40 - Stick and Wine Glasses
  • 1F20.55? - Inertia of Rest - Inertia Hat
  • 1F20.60 - Tighten a Hammer Head

Inertia of Motion

  • 1F30.15 - Inertia of Motion - Chain
  • 1F30.21 - Water Hammer
  • 1F30.30 - Inertia of Motion - Air Track & Homer

Newton's Second Law

Force, Mass, and Acceleration

  • 1G10.10 - Uniform Acceleration due to Earth's Gravity - Air Track
  • 1G10.40 - Atwood's Machine

Accelerated Reference Frames

  • 1G20.30 - Leaky Cup Drop
  • 1G20.38 - Einstein's Birthday Present
  • 1G20.40 - Springs & Weights or Bucket & Springs
  • 1G20.45 - Dropped Slinky
  • 1G20.50 - Magnet & Keeper
  • 1G20.70 - Uniform Acceleration - Liquid Accelerometer & Dynamics Cart

Complex Systems

Newton's Third Law

Action and Reaction

Recoil

Large Scale Outdoor Measurements

Statics of Rigid Bodies

Finding Center of Gravity

Exceeding Center of Gravity

Stable, Unstable, and Neutral Equilibrium

Resolution of Forces

  • 1J30.10 - Resolution of Forces on an Inclined Plane
  • 1J30.20 - Tension in a String
  • 1J30.25 - Forces on a String - Three Students and a Rope
  • 1J30.30 - Break a Wire With a Hinge
  • 1J30.50 - Force Table, Vertical and Horizontal
  • 1J30.70 - Rice in a Tube

Static Torque

Application's of Newton's Laws

Dynamic Torque

  • 1K10.20 - Ladder Forces
  • 1K20.10 - Friction Blocks
  • 1K20.14 - Friction - Air Track
  • 1K20.35 - Inclined Plane - Angle of Repose
  • 1K20.36? - Inclined Plane - Acceleration of a Block
  • 1K20.37 - Static Friction - Rolling Wheel
  • 1K20.42 - Rolling and Sliding Friction
  • 1K20.70 - Falling Bottle Capstan
  • 1K20.76 - Climbing Monkey
  • 1K30.10 - Crush Strength - Stand on Dixie Cups

Friction

Pressure

Gravity

Universal Gravitational Constant

Orbits

Work and Energy

Work

Simple Machines

Non-Conservative Forces

Conservation of Energy

Mechanical Power

Linear Momentum and Collisions

Impulse and Thrust

  • 1N10.11 - Impulse - Time of Contact
  • 1N10.30 - Impulse Demo - Dropping Beaker / Eggs

Conservation of Linear Momentum

  • 1N20.10 - See-Saw Center of Mass
  • 1N20.15 - Center of Mass - Platform
  • 1N20.20 - Conservation of Linear Momentum - Air Track
  • 1N20.40 - Pop Pop Boat

Mass and Momentum Transfer

  • 1N21.20 - Air Track - Mass & Momentum

Rockets

Collisions in One Dimension

  • 1N30.10 - Newton Spheres
  • 1N30.30 - Elastic & Inelastic Collision of Solids - Air Track
  • 1N30.40? - Elastic & Inelastic Collision of Solids - Balls
  • 1N30.50 - Impulse Demo - Elastic and Inelastic Pendulum
  • 1N30.60 - Tennis ball and Basketball

Collisions in Two Dimensions

Rotational Dynamics

Moment of Inertia

  • 1Q10.30 - Moments of Inertia - Hoops and Disks
  • 1Q10.75 - Parallel Axis Wheels

Rotational Energy

  • 1Q20.10 - Angular Momentum Machine
  • 1Q20.15 - Angular Momentum - Rotating Air Table
  • 1Q20.20 - Moment of Inertia
  • 1Q20.46 - Moment of Inertia - Energy of Translation
  • 1Q20.50 - Falling Chimney

Transfer of Angular Momentum

  • 1Q30.40 - Fluctuating Magnetic Fields/Cons. of Angular Momentum - ref. Astronomy
  • 1Q30.90 - Magic Windmill

Conservation of Angular Momentum

  • 1Q40.10 - Cons. of Angular Momentum Demo - Stool and Weights
  • 1Q40.20 - Cons. of Angular Momentum Demo - Squeezatron
  • 1Q40.22 - Cons. of Angular Momentum Demo - Hoberman Sphere
  • 1Q40.30 - Cons. of Angular Momentum Demo - Bicycle Wheel
  • 1Q40.40 - Action-Reaction Demo - Train Demo
  • 1Q40.50 - Action-Reaction Demo - Pocket Watch - Tail Wags the Dog
  • 1Q40.57 - Cons. of Angular Momentum - Air Table
  • 1Q40.60 - Cons. of Angular Momentum - Ball or Cylinder Paper Pull
  • 1Q40.70 - Cons. of Angular Momentum - Vortex Cones

Gyros

Rotational Stability

Properties of Matter

Hooke's Law

Tensile and Compressive Stress

Shear Stress

  • 1R30.20 - Shear - Foam Block
  • 1R30.30 - Shear - Spring Cube, Crystal Lattice

Coefficient of Restitution

  • 1R40.10 - Coefficient of Restitution
  • 1R40.30 - Happy - Unhappy Balls

Crystal Structure

  • 1R50.20 - Crystal Models and Lattices
  • 1R50.24? - Crystals - Mirror Images and Symmetry 
  • 1R50.30 - Crystals, Crystal Structure, & Atomic Planes
  • 1R50.31 - Snow and Ice Crystals
  • 1R50.40 - Faults in a Crystal