Oscillation and Wave Demonstrations

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3A-Oscillations

• 10. Pendulums
  • 10. Simple Pendulum
  • 15. Bowling Ball Pendulum
  • 17. Different Mass/Length Pendulums
  • 20. Chaos Pendulum
  • 30. Torsion Pendulum
• 15. Physical Pendula
• 20. Springs and Oscillators
  • 10. Mass on a Spring
• 40. Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 51. Simple Harmonic Motion with Pasco Dynamics Track
• 50. Damped Oscillators
• 60. Driven Mechanical Resonance
  • 20. Driven Mechanical Resonance with a Pasco Dynamics Cart
  • 26. Driven Mechanical Resonance with Two Pasco Dynamics Carts
  • 30. Head Scratcher
  • 40. Tennis Ball Resonance
• 70. Coupled Oscillators
  • 21. Sargent Welch Coupled Harmonic Oscillator
  • 33. Coupled Pendula Resonance
• 75. Normal Modes
• 80. Lissajous Figures
• 95. Non-Linear Systems

3B-Wave Motion

• 10. Transverse Pulses and Waves
  • 00. Wave Driver & Accessories
  • 10. Wave Pulse on a Spring
  • 20. Torsion Wave
  • 55. Transverse Wave Projection
• 20. Longitudinal Pulses and Waves
  • 10. Wave Pulse on a Slinky
• 22. Standing Waves
  • 50. Standing Waves on a Spring
• 25. Impedance and Dispersion
• 27. Compound Waves
• 30. Wave Properties of Sound
  • 10. Physics of The Moon
• 33. Phase and Group Velocity
• 35. Reflection and Refraction (sound)
• 39. Transfer of Energy in Waves
• 40. Doppler Effect
  • 10. Doppler Nerf Ball
  • 15. Doppler Tennis Ball
  • 18. Doppler Tuning Fork
• 45. Shock Waves
• 50. Interference and Diffraction
  
  • 55. Interference with Fiberglass Roofing Strips
  • 60. Interference with Resonance Boxes
• 55. Interference and Diffraction of Sound
  • 30. Baffle and Speaker
• 60. Beats
  • 10. Beats with Resonance Boxes
• 70. Coupled Resonators
  • 10. Coupled Resonance with Resonance Boxes

3C-Acoustics

• 10. The Ear
• 20. Pitch
• 30. Intensity and Attenuation
• 40. Architectural Acoustics
• 50. Wave Analysis and Synthesis
• 55. Music Perception and the Voice

3D-Instruments

• 20. Resonance in Strings
• 22. Stringed Instruments
• 30. Resonance Cavities
  • 20. Boom Whackers
  • 30. Resonance Tube
  • 50. Flame Tube (Ruben's Tube)
  • 71. Hoot Tubes
• 32. Air Column Instruments
  • 40. Trumpet and Flute
  • 45. PVC Panpipes
  • 45. PVC Trombone
• 40. Resonance in Plates, Bars, Solids
  • 20. Singing Rod
  • 30. Chladni Plates
  • 50. Musical Goblet
  • 51. Spouting Bowl
• 42. Percussion Instruments
• 46. Tuning Forks
  • 10. Tuning Forks
• 50. Electronic Instruments

3E-Sound Reproduction

• 20. Loudspeakers
• 30. Microphones
• 40. Amplifiers
• 60. Recorders