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--- outreach [2019/09/09 21:14] – created ethanminot
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 ====== Outreach ======
+===== Internet resources =====
+  *[[https://lecdem.physics.umd.edu/index.php/demos-by-class|Index of university-level lecture demonstrations]] from University of Maryland.
+  *[[https://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/activities|Index of hands-on science activities]] from the Exploratorium
+  *[[https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/|Popular demos commercially available]] from Steve Spangler Science
+  *[[https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/index.cfm|American Physical Society Outreach Pages]]
+Some other fun videos:
+  *[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eEi7fO0_O0|The chain fountain explanation]]. Inspired by Mould's video that was posted in 2013. Theory paper published soon after. Picked up by NY Times in 2014.
 ===== Workshops =====
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 ====== Physics demo shows ======
+ Air
+  *Hovercraft (leaf blower)
   *Floating beach ball (similarity with laser trap)
-  *Hoover craft made from leaf blower and plywood
+  *Fill bag with one breath (entrainment)
-  *Giant bubbles
+  *Drop paper cones experiment
-  *Green fire, methane bubbles
+  *Vacuum bell jar (marshmallows, balloons)
-  *Floating superconductor
+  *Air cannon
-  *Swinging a pale of water
   *Crushing soda cans
-  *Standing waves on a rope, with a strobe
-  *Sterling engine
+Optics
+  *Gas discharge lamps with Ne, He etc., viewed with diffraction glasses
+  *Michelson Interferometer (relate to gravity waves)
+Particle physics
+  *Cloud chamber
+Materials physics
+  *Floating superconductor (needs liquid nitrogen)
+Central forces
+  *Swinging a pale of water
   *Rotating chair
+Density/buoyancy
+  *Fish tank of water, Coke can sinks, Diet Coke floats, prediction for grapes?
+Oscillation and waves
+  *Range of human hearing (sound waves)
+  *Wave machine
+  *Standing waves on a rope
+Thermal
+  *Sterling engine
+Electromagnetism
+  *Van der Graf generator
   *Jacobs ladder (connect to lighting, connect to speed of sound and measuring distance)
-  *Make a geyser?
 Movies:
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   *Myth busters car crashes
   *High frame rate slow motion videos
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