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Air Pressure and Water Flow.aspx
  
 Instruct the students about pressure, suction, siphoning, hydrostatics, how straws work, and surface level equilibrium.
Batteries.aspx
  
Instruct the students about batteries, electrolytes, anodes, cathodes, voltage, current, resistance, and use of a multimeter.
Camera and Eye Model.aspx
  
Instruct the students about amplitude, standing waves, and overtones.
Capacitor Lab.aspx
  
Instruct the students about capacitors, capacitance, electrical energy storage, and equation analysis.
Circuits.aspx
  
Instruct the students about a complete circuit, continuous paths for electrons, measuring current and voltage to calculate power, preliminary series and parallel.
Color Mixing.aspx
  
Students mix RGB light to make different colors.
Density and Buoyancy.aspx
  
To demonstrate the concepts of density, buoyancy, Archimedes’ Principle and surface tension.
Electrodeposition and Electroplating.aspx
  
Instruct the students about amplitude, standing waves, and overtones.
Energy and Power - Calorimetry.aspx
  
Instruct the students about amplitude, standing waves, and overtones.
Energy to Light Conversion.aspx
  
Observe and measure light outputs and efficiencies of different types of light bulbs.
Experiment Library.aspx
  
To list all of the available experiments for Physics 106 - Everyday Physics
Fluorescence.aspx
  
Instruct students on how Fluorescence works.
Galileo's Ramp.aspx
  
Fluid Experiment
Home Wiring - Available ONLY by Special Request.aspx
  
Give students a hands-on opportunity to learn about wiring that is actually used in their everyday life: switches, receptacles, and lights.
Loudspeaker and Microphone.aspx
  
Instruct the students about speakers, microphones, induction, amplification, recording and transmission of sound, and electromagnetism.
Magnetism.aspx
  
Instruct the students about magnetism, magnets, field lines, ferromagnetism, Earth’s magnetosphere, and electromagnets.
Mass and Weight.aspx
  
Instruct students on the differences between mass and weight.
Motion Under Gravity.aspx
  
To demonstrate that all objects fall with the same acceleration under the influence of gravity irrespective of mass and that projectile motion is the superposition of horizontal motion with constant velocity and vertical motion with contant acceleration.
Motors and Generators.aspx
  
Instruct the students about right hand rule, motors, generators, and torque.
Musical Instruments.aspx
  
Instruct the students about sound, frequency, instruments, and overtones.
Newton's Laws of Motion - CO2 Dragster.aspx
  
To demonstrate Newton’s three laws of motion.
Ohm's Law.aspx
  
Instruct the students about resistance in series and parallel, Ohmic, and non-Ohmic resistors.
Optics - Diffraction.aspx
  
To instruct the students about the interference of light and the use of diffraction as an experimental tool.
Optics - Image Formation Lab.aspx
  
Instruct the students about geometrical optics, reflection, and refraction.
Optics - Light Lab.aspx
  
Instruct the students about geometrical optics, reflection, and refraction.
Optics - Optical Instruments.aspx
  
To instruct the students about optical instruments formed from multiple optical elements:  periscopes, compound microscopes, refracting telescopes and reflecting telescopes.
Phases of Matter.aspx
  
Instruct the students about amplitude, standing waves, and overtones.
Pneumatics.aspx
  
Instruct the students about pneumatics, pressure, and over pressure.
Pressure and Fluid Flow.aspx
  
To demonstrate the concepts of pressure, compressible and incompressible fluids, hydrostatic pressure of a fluid column, continuity (mass conservation) in fluid flow, Pascal’s Principle, Pascal’s Law, gauge pressure and more!
Relay and Buzzer.aspx
  
Instruct the students about relays and circuitry.
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