Experiment of the Month Archive

Experiment of the Month Archive

  • 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
  • Low Temperature Gold Film Resistance
  • Indoor Sound Velocity Measurement
  • Energy in the Atwood's Machine
  • The Bending of Combined Beams
  • Loudspeaker Resonance and Decay Time
  • Current Density in a Conducting Sheet
  • Twin Tee Complex Transfer Function
  • Bowling Ball Demonstration Pendulum
  • The Prettiest Fringes