Physics 4A:   Mechanics

 

 

Week 1: Measurement, Estimation, 1D Kinematics

 

AIR TRACK

BALL DROP

 

 

Week 2:   Vectors, 2D Kinematics

 

SIMULTANEOUS FALL

SHOOT THE MONKEY

BALLISTIC CART

 

 

Week 3: Dynamics & Newton¹s Laws

 

BLACKBOARD MECHANICS SET

 

 

Week 4: Newton¹s Laws

 

INCLINED PLANE (WITH FRICTION BLOCKS)

SKATEBOARD REACTION CART

CAR JUMP

 

 

Week 5: Gravity, Work and Energy

 

BOWLING BALL PENDULUM

BALLISTIC PENDULUM

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY DOUBLE TRACK

 

 

Week 6: Conservation of Energy

 

Week 7: Momentum and Collisions

 

NEWTON'S CRADLE

ETHANOL ROCKET

TENNIS BALL AND BASKETBALL

CENTER OF MASS

LEANING TOWER

ROLLING UPHILL ILLUSION

 

 

Week 8: Rotations about fixed axes

 

SPIN THE WINE GLASS

SPINNING LARIAT

MASS ON A SPRING

ROLLING DISK/HOOP/SPHERES

SPINNING  CHAIR

BIKE WHEEL GYRO

 

 

Week 9. General Rotations

 

SPINNING  CHAIR

BIKE WHEEL GYRO

 

 

Week 10. Statics