College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
2B40.53 - Oil and Water "U" Tube
The demo is already set up and ready to go. Kroil is red and the colored water is the blue. On top of the blue column is a little bit of the oil to keep the water from evaporating.
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- Thomas B. Greenslade Jr., "Hare's Apparatus", AJP, Vol. 92, #3, March 2024, p. 233.
- Bruce Denardo, William Wright, Brad Barber, and Chris Folley, "A Rotating U-tube Experiment", AJP, Vol. 58, #7, July 1990, p. 631.
- Philip Pennance, "A New Derivation of the Particle Density Formula in Quantum Mechanics", AJP, Vol. 58 #1, Jan. 1990, p. 88.
- Fernando B. Morinigo, "Fluid Oscillations in a U Tube", AJP, Vol. 40, #2, Feb. 1972, p. 350.
- Freier and Anderson, "Fh-1", A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
- Tik L. Liem, "The Unlevel Communicating Tube", Invitations to Science Inquiry - Supplement to 1st and 2nd Ed. p. 48.
- Joseph Frick, "# 82 - Communicating Vessels", Physical Technics: Or, Practical Instructions for Making Experiments in Physics and the Construction of Physical Apparatus with the Most Limited Means, p. 90.
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