Physics:  Past Experiments of the Month

• Filter drop and statistics
  
• Charge on a capacitor
  
• Speed of light
  
• Doppler measurement of velocity
  
• Introduction to the Oscilloscope as a Voltmeter
  
• Patterns in Linear Motion
  
• Marble Scattering
  
• Acoustic Heat Pump
  
• Finding Absolute Zero in the comfort of your kitchen
  
• Ball Trajectory
  
• Sound Velocity
  
• Water Refraction
  
• Falling Ball Acceleration
  
• Running in the Rain
  
• Friction Problem
  
• Photoelectric Effect
  
• Higher Tech Sound Velocity
  
• Statistics for Marble Scattering
  
• The Hall Effect in Gold Films
  
• Intermediate Laboratory Sampler
  
• Singing Textbook
  
• Friction With a Pencil
  
• Magnetic Dipole Field Strength
  
• Sound Interference with Battery and 2 Buzzers
  
• The Sound of Quality
  
• How High is the Moon?
  
• Cosmic Muons and Relativity
  
• Relativistic time
  
• Inertial and Gravitational Mass
  
• Static Bottle Balance
  
• Photon Momentum Search
  
• Galilean Relativity
  
• Relativity Lesson Plans
  
• Parametrically Driven Pendulum
  
• Foucault Pendulum Proof that the Earth Rotates
  
• Mathematica Baseball Simulation
  
• Vector Sum of Forces
  
• The Underwater Pendulum
  
• The CERN Connection
  
• Newton's Third Law and Mass
  
• Reconstructing a Complex Musical Tone
  
• Demonstration of Anomalous Dispersion
  
• Foucault Pendulum Summer Workshop
  
• An Operational Amplifier Sampler
  
• Zeno and the Bouncing Ball
  
• Statistics to Reduce Error Below the Least Count
  
• RMS and DC Equivalent Voltage
  
• Introduction to Newton's First and Second laws
  
• Video Analysis of a Falling Ball
  
• A Cylindrical Physical Pendulum
  
• Black Body Radiation from an Incandescent Lamp
  
• Laser Drilling of 10 Micron Holes
  
• Some Senior Seminar Projects
  
• Summer Tour & High School Foucault
  
• Conservation of Energy for Rolling Hoops
  
• Galileo's Method for Rolling Hoops
  
• Sample Lab Write-up for Current Balance
  
• Measuring Earth's Radius Along I-95
  
• How a Tire Holds up a Car
  
• Our Directional Sense of Hearing
  
• "Wrong Way" Parabolic Fluid Bulge
  
• k-vector Approach to Snell's Law
  
• Rotating a Lost Astronaut
  
• Weighing the Air in a Balloon
  
• Experimental Force Component
  
• Mechanical Work Raises Voltage
  
• Parabolic Velocity Field for Fluid in a Pipe
  
• Laser Drilled 10Micron Holes in Bi Film
  
• Inverted Pendulum Driven by a Loudspeaker
  
• Calculus in Physics
  
• Physics Wins with Independent Variables
  
• Foucault Pendulum Ideas for AP Physics
  
• Foucault Pendulum Lesson Plans for General Physics
  
• Error is natural
  
• Followup on the Sound of Quality
  
• Terminal Velocity
  
• Interferometer Phase Shift Calibration
  
• Mid-Air Elastic Collisions
  
• Conical Anamorphosis
  
• Pendulum Resonance Mimics Ear
  
• Pendulum Traveling Wave in Elementary Education
  
• A Musical Uncertainty Principle
  
• Atmospheric Pressure with a Soda Bottle and a Ping Pong Ball
  
• Foucault Pendulum Precession Derivation
  
• Helmholtz Resonator
  
• The Bounce of a Spinning Ball
  
• Surface Plasmon Generation
  
• Cooney's Machine
  
• Photon Uncertainty Principle
  
• Interferometric Glass Thickness Measurement
  
• Microscope vs. Telescope
  
• Channeling a Sunbeam
  
• Aspirators Don't Suck; They Curl
  
• Feynman Water Sprinkler
  
• Non-Coalescing Coffee Drops
  
• Mirror Reading
  
• Laser Refraction
  
• Laser Wavelength
  
• Five Meter Foucault Pendulum
  
• Laser Construction
  
• Nano-Engineered Thin Films
  
• Lunar Eclipse and the Distance to the Moon
  
• Gas Leaks and Boltzmann's Distribution
  
• Dielectric Relaxation
  

to Current Experiment of the Month

to Physics Homepage

Comments:
physics@millersville.edu

Page maintained by: Eric Eipper