- 1R10. Hooke’s Law
- 1R10.10 Hooke’s Law Add 10, 20, and 30 newtons to a large spring.
- 1R10.15 Suspended Slinkly The spacing between turns of a Slinky suspended vertically under its own weight can be used to test Hooke’s law.
- 1R10.20 Strain Gauge A spring attached to a Pasco dynamic force transducer is pulled to various lengths. Display the resulting force on a voltmeter.
- 1R10.25 Pull on a Horizontal Spring Pull on a horizontal spring with a spring scale.
- 1R10.30 Springs in Series and Parallel Pull on a spring, springs in series, and springs in parallel with a spring scale.
- 1R20. Tensile and Compressive Stress
- 1R20.20 Bending Beam 4 kg is hung from the center of a meter stick supported at the ends. Orient the meter stick on edge and then on the flat.
- 1R20.31 Stretch a Hole Holes arranged in a circle in a rubber sheet deform into an ellipse when stretched.
- 1R30. Shear Stress
- 1R30.10 Shear Book Use a thick book to show shear.
- 1R30.20 Shear Foam Block Push on the top of a large foam block to show shear.
- 1R30.30 Spring Cube A 5x5x5 cube of wood blocks is held together with springs.
- 1R40. Coefficient of Restitution
- 1R40.10 Happy And Sad Balls The coefficient of restitution for collisions of happy ball and sad balls can be discussed.
- 1R50. Crystal Structure
- 1R50.20 Various Lattice Models Have many crystal lattice models available.
- 1R50.22 Tennis Ball Crystals Various crystal models constructed from layers of tennis balls.
- 1R50.30 “Egg Crate Foam” Periodicity of crystal structure of atomic planes illustrated by “egg crate foam”.
- 1R50.40 Crystal Faults One layer of small ball bearings between two Lucite sides.
Wesleyan University Dept. of Physics
