water hammer

 

Code Number: 1F30.21

Demo Title: Water Hammer

Condition: Excellent

Principle: Air Pressure

Area of Study: Heat & Fluids

Equipment: 

Water Hammer

Procedure:

As the water falls from one end of the water hammer to the other end it makes a loud click, showing that water falls as a solid in a vacuum.

References:

  • Z. V. Harvakik, "Vacuum by Freezing", TPT, Vol. 4, No. 4, p. 37, April 1964.
  • M- 290,  Richard Manliffe Sutton, Demonstration Experiments in Physics.
  • George M. Hopkins, "Falling Bodies--Inclined Plane--The Pendulum", Experimental Science, p. 39.
  • Central Scientific Company, "Glass Water Hammer".
  • Tik L. Liem, "The Water Hammer", Invitations to Science Inquiry - Supplement to 1st and 2nd Ed. p. 123.
  • Joseph Frick, "# 360 - The Water-Hammer", Physical Technics: Or Practical Instructions for Making Experiments in Physics and the Construction of Physical Apparatus with the Most Limmited Means, p. 426.
  • "The Water Hammer", Pike's Illustrated Catalogue of Scientific & Medical Instruments, 1984, p. 222.
  • The Queen Catalogues, Catalogue of Physical Instruments, No. 4360, p. 37.