7-00.01 - Nano Materials Class

Code Number:
7-00.01
Demo Title:
Nano Materials Class
Condition:
Excellent
Principle:
Nano Materials and Technology
Area of Study:
Modern Physics

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Procedure:

Class Notes - Folder

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Classroom Demonstrations

  • 1A60.10 - Powers of 10 video
  • 1N30.10 - Newton's Spheres, Clackers - to help with the 5G10.55 Gauss Rifle explanation
  • 1N40.60 & 4A40.30 - Superball - room temperature and Liquid Nitrogen temp & Liquid Nitrogen - Ball, Rubber Tube, and Lettuce
  • 1R50.20 - Crystal Models and Lattices - crystal structures, zeolite structures, molecular sieves
  • 1R50.40 - Faults in a Crystal - grain boundaries
  • 2A10.15 - Submerged Float - surface tension
  • 2A10.20 - Surface Tension - Floating Metals - surface tension and surfactants
  • 2A10.40 - Surface Tension - Lycopodium Powder - surface tension and surfactants
  • 2A10.50 - Double Bubble Paradox - area and surface tension
  • 2C10.10 - Three Hole Can Experiment - Velocity of Efflux - flow rate and drag
  • 2C20.23 - Coanda Effect - Bernoulli Bags - entrainment and Bernoulli force
  • 2C20.30 - Coanda Effect - Ball in an Air Stream - entrainment and Bernoulli force
  • 2C20.40 - Plates and Weights - entrainment and Bernoulli force
  • 2C20.48 - Coanda Effect - Magnetic Ping-Pong Ball - entrainment and Bernoulli force
  • 2C20.80 - Magnus Effect - Flettner Rotator - entrainment and Bernoulli force
  • 2C30.50 - Terminal Velocity - viscosity and drag
  • 2C30.65 - Terminal Velocity - Coffee Filters - viscosity and drag
  • 2C60.00 - Non-Newtonian Fluids - drag forces across chains vs. drag force with air
  • 3A95.59 - Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reactions - clock reactions - Entry is in the Chaos and Rube Goldberg section
  • 3B10.20 - Wave Demo - Slinky - also tie a block to a Slinky and then wave the Slinky hard to make the block move
  • 3B22.11 - Standing Waves in a String - Melde's Experiment - show nodes
  • 3B22.30 - Wave Demo - Wave Machines - Electrons are waves
  • 3B50.20 & 3B50.40 - Ripple Tank & Moire' Transparancies - Interference of Water Waves
  • 3E20.10 - Loudspeakers - Nanotube Loudspeakers
  • 4C45.15 - Nitinol Wire - Shape memory alloys - temperature leads to change in shape
  • 4D10.10 - Brownian Motion - engines of healing - molecular machines
  • 4D20.10 - Radiometer - light pressure or heat pressure
  • 4D30.38 - Kinetic Theory of Gases Demos - Ping Pong Balls - Thermal Noise
  • 4D40.10 - Mono0molecular Layer - molecular dimensions
  • 4D50.70 - Permeable Membrane - Osmosis - diffusion and osmosis
  • 4F30.01 - Hero's Engine - asymemetry produced by the direction the nozzles point - if inside and outside temperatures are the same the engine does not turn
  • 4F30.20 - Steam Engine - pressure makes the wheel turn
  • 5A10.10 - Electrostatic Charges
  • 5A20.20 - Electrostatics - Pith balls, Balloons
  • 5A20.10 - Electrostatics - Rods and Pivots - Attraction & Repulsion
  • 5A22.93 - Electroscope - FET - field effect transistor with LED's responding to charges
  • 5A50.30 - Van de Graaff Generator - Arcing
  • 5B10.31 - Volta's Hailstorm - Jumping Particles
  • 5B10.45 - Electrorheological Liquid - electric field control of reactions
  • 5B10.58 - Van de Graaff - Fluorescent & Neon Light
  • 5B20.30 - Faraday's Cage - Electroscope - Shielding
  • 5C20.22 - Forces on a Dielectric - increased voltage leads to the dielectric oil climbing between the electrodes - rather than put the energy into putting charges on the electrodes the energy is put into overcoming the gravitational field for the oil
  • 5D10.15 - Resistors - Characteristics of Tapered Resistors - battery power indicators which are made from OLED's
  • 5D10.60 - Burn a Resistor - too much current blow a resistor
  • 5D20.10 - Temperature Dependence of Resistance - Wire Wound Resistors - Cool resistor in Liq. N2 and light bulb glows brighter
  • 5D20.60 - Conductivity of Glass - ordinarily insulating materisl become conducting at high temperatures
  • 5D30.30 - Pickle Light - Electrocute a Pickle - electricity goes through organic materials
  • 5D40.61 - Arcing of Two Electrodes - voltage between two electrodes is high leading to arcing
  • 5E60.12 - Piezoelectric Crystal Demo - Electric fields yields mechanical motion
  • 5F10.10 - Ohms Law - 2 small and 2 large resistors - two configurations - 2 small and 2 large in series and these combined in parallel - two parallel paths both with one small and one large resistor in series
  • 5G10.11 - Refrigerator Magnets & Floppy Disks - fields of a refrigerator magnet with liquid crystal sheets
  • 5G10.55 - Magnetic Linear Accelerator - Gauss Rifle - accelerating magnetic interactions
  • 5G20.10 - Barkhausen Effect - pickup coil to detect the noise when domain switches
  • 5G20.21 - Magnetic Domain Apparatus - crystalline anisotropy
  • 5G20.70 - Electromagnet - run an electromagnet
  • 5H10.20 - Magnet and Iron Filings - field of a bar magnet with iron filings and liquid crystal sheets
  • 5H10.31 - Ferromagnetic Fluids
  • 5H15.10 - Overhead Electromagnets - show magnetic fields
  • 5H20.10 - Forces on Magnets - Torque - generates torque which causes the moment to rotate rather that take magnetization to zero
  • 5H20.40 - Marble Magnets - Dipole-Dipole Interaction - Forces on magnets and wires
  • 5H25.10 - Coil & Compass, Rods, Gaussmeter, & Tangent Galvanometer - Forces on magnets
  • 5H25.25 - Magnetic Suction - Forces on magnets and wires
  • 5H30.10 - E-Beam Deflection - Cathode Ray Tubes - Redirect an electron beam using a magnetic field
  • 5H30.21 - e/m - Electromagnetic Deflection of a Free Electron Beam - show electron beams bent into a circle
  • 5H40.10 - Jumping Wires - Forces on magnets and wires
  • 5H40.23 - Lamp Filament - Magnet & AC/DC - Forces on magnets and wires
  • 5H40.30 - Jumping Wires - Magnet and Wire - Forces on magnets and wires
  • 5H40.34 - Homopolar Motor - Forces on magnets and wires 
  • 5H50.10 - Homemade Galvanometer - torques on coils
  • 5K10.25 - Electromagnetic Induction Demo - Coil and Light Bulb with Magnets - Show the flashlight with the magnetic switch 
  • 5K20.10 - Magnetic and Electromagnetic Damping - Eddy currents
  • 5K20.24 - Lenz's Law - Plates and Magnets - Eddy currents
  • 5K20.25 - Lenz's Law - Tubes and Magnets - Eddy current
  • 5K20.26 - Lenz's Law - Repulsion Rings - Eddy currents
  • 5K20.30 - Lenz's Law - Jumping Rings - How things move with magnetism
  • 5K20.39 - Eddy Current Levitator - Eddy currents
  • 5K40.10 - DC Motors - How things move with magnetism
  • 5M10.XX section - Semiconductors - crystal semiconductors
  • 5M10.61 - P-N Junctions - Gravitational Model
  • 5N10.57 - Electromagnetic Radiation - Microwave Oven - Standing Waves - show why you don't put metl in microwave - neon bulbs light up - jar of water is damper for microwaves
  • 5N20.25 - Tesla Coil - Plasma - electromagnetic radiation
  • 6A10.10, 6A20.10, 6A42.10, 6A44.10, 6A60.10, - Blackboard Optics Demonstrations
  • 6A40.11 - Apparent Depth - Pencil in the Block - where is the pencil
  • 6A60.31 - Thin Lenses - Mask like photolithography 
  • 6A65.50 - Water Drop Lens - Superabsorbant Polymers - Dissecting a Diaper
  • 6C20.35 - Diffraction Around Objects - Circular and Square Aperture
  • 6D30.10 - Thin Film Interference - Newton's Rings
  • 6F50.10 - Polarization - Scattering - why is the sky blue - blue sky/red sunset
  • 6H10.10 - Polarization - Crossed Polaroids
  • 6H10.20 - Polarization - Microwave - wire grid polarizer
  • 6H30.10 - Polarization - Three Polaroids - Evanescent coupling to simulate tunneling
  • 6H30.20 - Circular Polarization - Quarter Wave Plate, Polaroid, Mirror, and 3-D Movie Glasses - 3-D movie glasses demo
  • 6H30.40 - Polarization - Karo Syrup, Depths of Karo - optical activity
  • 6H35.15 - Polarization - Calcite & Iceland Spar - Birefringence
  • 6H35.50 - Polarization - Stress on Plastic and Glass
  • 7A10.10 - Photoelectric Effect in Zinc
  • 7A10.30 - Photoelectric Effect Demo - Red light, Green light, Blue light, UV light to generate current
  • 7A10.33 - Planck's Constant - LED's - Planck's Constant and show a "Knee"
  • 7A10.40 - Solar Cells and Motors - photovoltaics
  • 7A50.40 - Bohr Model - Vibrating Circular Wire
  • 7A60.10 - Crystal Structure using Electron Diffraction - diffraction from a crystal or powder
  • 7A60.50 - Mu Wave Demo - Bragg Diffraction Planes
  • 7A70.50 - Cool a PN Junction - LED Band Gap
  • 7B10.10 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Emission Lines
  • 7B13.05 - Triboluminescence - rip strips of duct tape apart and see flashes of light
  • 7B13.50 & 7B13.55 - Fluroescence - Blacklight Demonstrations & Luminescence & UV - Glow in the Dark Materials & Black Light - use fluorescent items to tag regions chemically targeted
  • 7B13.54 - Quantum Dots
  • 7B13.57 - Electrochemiluminescence - items that have OLED substrate - real low power night lights
  • 7B20.33 - ESR - Electron Spin - show magnetic precession
  • 7D10.10 - Radioactivity Demo - KCL count with Geiger Counter
  • 7D10.13 - Radioactive vs. Irradiated Salt - heat irradiated and it gives off flashes of light
  • 7D30.45 - Smoke Detector - radioactive source, absorb/scattered by nanoparticles
  • 10A10.50 - Make Nylon - The kit is stored on the "Chemicals" shelf
  • 9B40.70 - STM - Scanning Tunneling Microscope - Entry is in the Facilities Support section
  • 9B40.75 - Atomic Force Microscope Model - Entry is in the Facilities Support section
  • 9B40.85 - Electron Microscope - Entry is in the Facilities Support section
  • Colloidal Gold Nonoparticles - The kit and samples are stored on the "Chemicals" shelf
  • Conductive foam ( for chip shipping ), boxes, and mats - show why most conducting materials are black - run a current through the material to show conduction
  • Disk Drive Demos - Hard Drives that have been taken apart
  • Ductility demo for metal
  • Evaporation/Sputtering - Spray painting over a stencil - material build up on the top of a stencil as well
  • Filters - water filters
  • Geometrical stacking
  • Molecular Machines - Chemistry
  • Nanotube Fabrication Demo - Carbon Arc Lamp
  • Photosensitive Materials - Circuit Board Etching
  • Ratchet - pressure applied moves the object forward, ratchet prevents from going back
  • Thermal Paper - show changing properties of organic materials with heat
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