Physics 11A: Survey of Physics

 

Week 1: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Gravity

 

AIR TRACK

 

 

Week 2: Motion in 2 Dimensions

 

BALL DROP

SIMULTANEOUS FALL

SHOOT THE MONKEY

BALLISTIC CART

 

 

Week 3: Newton¹s Laws of Motion

 

BLACKBOARD MECHANICS SET

INCLINED PLANE (WITH FRICTION BLOCKS)

SKATEBOARD REACTION CART

 

 

Week 4: Rotational Motion            

 

SPIN THE WINE GLASS

SPINNING LARIAT

MASS ON A SPRING


 

Week 5: Gravitation

 

ETHANOL ROCKET

 

Week 6: Work and Energy

 

BOWLING BALL PENDULUM

BALLISTIC PENDULUM

CAR JUMP

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY DOUBLE TRACK

 

 

Week 7: Conservation of Energy   

 

BOWLING BALL PENDULUM

BALLISTIC PENDULUM

CAR JUMP

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY DOUBLE TRACK

 

 

Week 8: Momentum

 

NEWTON'S CRADLE

ETHANOL ROCKET

TENNIS BALL AND BASKETBALL

AIR TRACK

 

 

Week 9: Special Relativity 

 

SPARK CHAMBER

 

 

Week 10: Implications of Relativity