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Heat & Fluids
Support Equipment
2 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Heat and Fluids
Surface Tension
Force of Surface Tension
2A10.05 - Surface Tension - Pennies in a Cup
2A10.15 - Submerged Float
2A10.20 - Surface Tension - Floating Metals
2A10.25 - Surface Tension - Metal Screens
2A10.28 - Surface Tension - Lotus Effect
2A10.30 - Surface Tension Balance - Tensiometer
2A10.35 - Cohesion Plates
2A10.40 - Surface Tension - Lycopodium Powder
2A10.50 - Double Bubble Paradox
2A10.69 - Surface Tension - Water Down a String
Minimal Surface
2A15.01 - Soap Bubble Recipes
2A15.10 - Ring and Thread
2A15.20 - Soap Film - Minimal Surfaces
2A15.21 - Catenoid/Catenary
2A15.40 - Soap Bubble - Gases
Capillary Action
2A20.10 - Capillary
2A20.45 - Meniscus - Stable Equilibrium
Surface Tension Propulsion
2A30.13 - Surface Tension - Boat
Statics of Fluids
Static Pressure
2B20.15 - Pressure Dependent on Depth
2B20.40 - Pascal Vases
2B20.53 - Elasticity of Glass - Squeeze a Flask
2B20.60 - Work Done by a Piston - Jack
2B20.65 - Garbage Bag Jack
2B20.80 - Hovercraft
2B20.90 - Ground Effect Vehicle
Atmospheric Pressure
2B30.10 - Crush the Can
2B30.15 - Crush The Soda Can
2B30.30 - Magdeburg Hemispheres
2B30.36 - Magbeburg Hemispheres - Suction Cups
2B30.45 - Water Column - Water Barometer
2B30.45a - Inverted Jug or Pitcher - Spoof
2B30.49 - Balloon in a Bottle - Air or Water
2B30.50 - Rubber Sheets
2B30.60 - Stick and Newspaper
2B30.70 - Vacuum Cannon
Measuring Pressure
2B35.10 - Mercury Barometer
2B35.26 - Water/Gas Barometer
2B35.30 - Manometers
2B35.40 - Aneroid Barometer
2B35.45 - Balloon Barometer
2B35.60 - Bourdon Gauge
2B35.70 - Weatherglass Barometer
Density and Buoyancy
2B40.10 - Buoyancy - Bowling Ball and Spring Scale
2B40.15 - Buoyancy - Finger, Water, and Scale
2B40.18 - Beakers or Boards and Masses
2B40.20 - Buoyancy Demo - Archimedes' Principle and Applications
2B40.23 - Water Level - Stones Thrown from a Boat
2B40.25 - Battleship in a Bathtub
2B40.28 - Metal & Concrete Boats - Buoyancy vs. Surface Area
2B40.29 - Buoyancy vs. Surface Area
2B40.30 - Cartesian Diver
2B40.40 - Buoyancy Demo - Baroscope
2B40.41a - Buoyancy Paradox
2B40.41b - Buoyancy Paradox - Boat With and Without Atmosphere
2B40.45 - Gas Law - Weight of Air Globe
2B40.50 - Density Gradient
2B40.52 - Specific Gravity
2B40.53 - Oil and Water "U" Tube
2B40.55 - Particle Diffusion In Stellar Medium - Percolation & Convection Cells
2B40.57 - Density of a Soft Drink
2B40.57B - Buoyancy Paradox - 3 Beakers & Density Balls
2B40.59 - Density Ball, Rods, Galilean Thermometer, Eggs
2B40.60 - Hydrometers
2B40.61 - Density Blocks
2B40.70 - Lifting Power of Balloons
2B40.85 - Granular Segregation - Rising Stones
Siphons, Fountains, Pumps
2B60.10 - Hero's Fountain
2B60.30 - Siphons, Self Starting Siphons, & Tantalus Cups
Dynamics of Fluids
Flow Rate
2C10.10 - Three Hole Can Experiment - Velocity of Efflux
2C10.26 - Water From a Syringe - Velocity of Efflux
2C10.30 - Falling Water Stream
Forces in Moving Fluids
2C20.07 - Bernoulli's Principle - ????
2C20.10 - Bernoulli's Principle - Venturi Tubes
2C20.20 - Atomizer
2C20.23 - Coanda Effect - Bernoulli Bags
2C20.30 - Coanda Effect - Ball in Air Stream
2C20.31 - Toilet Paper and Leaf Blower
2C20.34 - Coanda Effect - Thread in an Air Stream
2C20.35 - Coanda Effect - Funnel and Ball
2C20.36 - Coanda Effect - Ball in a Water Stream
2C20.40 - Plates and Weights
2C20.44 - Coin in a Cup
2C20.45 - Attracting Balls or Sheets
2C20.48 - Coanda Effect - Magnetic Ping - Pong Ball
2C20.50 - Coanda Effect and Angle of Attack - Airplane Wing
2C20.55 - Boomerang
2C20.60 - Magnus Effect - "V" Launcher and Ball
2C20.63 - Bernoulli Demo - Weather Balloon Curve Ball
2C20.70 - Magnus Effect - Loop the Loop
2C20.80 - Magnus Effect - Flettner Rotator
2C20.95 - Frisbee
2C20.96 - Flying Ring and Cylinder
Viscosity
2C30.15 - Viscosity
2C30.50 - Terminal Velocity
2C30.65 - Terminal Velocity - Coffee Filters
Turbulent and Streamline Flow
2C40.20 - Streamline Flow - Blow Out a Candle
2C40.50 - Laminar and Turbulent Flow Demos
2C40.90 - Shock Wave Fronts: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Vortices
2C50.15 - Vortex Rings
2C50.20 - Tornado Vortex
2C50.30 - Tornado Vortex - Tornado Tube
2C50.34 - Tornado Box - Vortex Stretching
2C50.40 - Paraboloids and Vortices
Non-Newtonian Fluids
2C60.00 - Non-Newtonian Fluids
2C60.10 - Fluidizing Bed
2C60.32 - Cornstarch on a Speaker
2C60.40 - Silly Putty
2C60.50 - Fluids vs. Solids - Sand
Thermal Properties of Matter
Thermometry
4A10.10 - Thermometers - Gas and Liquid
4A10.20 - Galileo Thermometer
4A10.30 - Thermocouples
4A10.50 - Liquid Crystals
4A10.80 - IR Thermometers
Liquid Expansion
4A20.10 - Expansion & Contraction Demo - Liquids
Solid Expansion
4A30.10 - Expansion & Contraction Demo - Bimetal Strip
4A30.11 - Bimetal Strip Thermostat
4A30.15 - Wire Coil Thermostat
4A30.20 - Expansion & Contraction Demo - Ball and Ring
4A30.40 - Spencer Disks
4A30.46 - Trevelyan Rockers
4A30.55 - Expansion & Contraction Demo - Expansion Tube
4A30.60 - Thermal Expansion Coefficient
4A30.80 - Thermal Properties of Rubber
Properties of Material at Low Temperatures
4A40.10 - Liquid Nitrogen - Lead Bell
4A40.20 - Liquid Nitrogen - Banana and Mercury Hammer
4A40.30 - Liquid Nitrogen - Ball, Rubber Tube, and Lettuce
4A40.31 - Liquid Nitrogen - Whack A Penny
4A40.32 - Helium Balloon and Liquid Nitrogen
4A40.34 - Liquid Nitrogen - Ice Cream Recipes - Slushie Recipies
4A40.45 - Liquid Nitrogen - Speed of Chemical Reactions
4A40.70 - Liquid Oxygen - Acceleration of Combustion
Heat and the First Law
Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
4B10.10 - Heat Capacity Demo
4B10.26 - Specific Heat App. - Calorimeter
4B10.29 - Dulong - Petit Law of Specific Heat
4B10.30 - Specific Heat Apparatus
4B10.65 - P-V-T App. - Rüchhardt's Method
Convection
4B20.10 - Thermal Convection of a Liquid Demo
4B20.20 - Thermal Convection of a Gas - Hot Air Balloon
4B20.30 - Thermal Convection of a Gas - Convection Chimney with Confetti
4B20.35 - Thermal Convection of a Gas - Paper Chimney
4B20.38 - Thermal Convection of a Gas - Convection Currents
4B20.40 - Heating - Convection vs. Conduction
4B20.50 - Convection Cells or Rayleigh-Bernard Cell
Conduction
4B30.10 - Thermal Conductivity Demo
4B30.13 - Thermal Conduction of Styrofoam
4B30.53 - Heat Transfer - Liquid Crystal Indicator
4B30.54 - Heat Transfer - Heat Pipe or Aluminum Bar
4B30.55 - Heat Transfer - Copper Coils
4B30.59 - Model - Heat Flow from a Home
Radiation
4B40.10 - Light the Match
4B40.30 - Leslie's Cube
4B40.45 - Infrared Radiation/Absorption
4B40.50 - Thermal Radiation - Absorption/Transmission
4B40.60 - Infrared Radiation - Sensitive Thermocouple and Overhead
4B40.66 - Radiation - Laser and Thermometer
Heat Transfer Application
4B50.10 - Thermal Conductivity Demo - 4 Thermos Bottles
4B50.17 - Three Radiation Cans - Different Color Surfaces
4B50.20 - Boiling Water in a Paper Cup
4B50.25 - Balloons & Matches
4B50.60 - The Greenhouse Effect
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
4B60.10 - Work Into Heat - Lead Shot
4B60.15 - Mechanical Equivalent of Heat - Hammer a Block
4B60.18 - Smashing Spheres - 2" Ball Bearings
4B60.20 - Mechanical Equivalent of Heat - Friction Method
4B60.41 - Mechanical Equivalent of Heat - Bend a Wire
4B60.55 - Frictional Heating
Adiabatic Processes
4B70.10 - Fire Syringe
4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling
4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle
4B70.27 - Adiabatic Cooling - Fire Extinguisher
4B70.30 - Adiabatic Gas Law Apparatus - Pasco
4B70.36 - Adiabatic Gas Law - Compress Butane
4B70.60 - Adiabatic Invariant
Change of State
PVT Surfaces
4C10.10 - P-V-T Model
Phase Changes: Liquid - Solid
4C20.10 - Super Cooling Water
4C20.20 - Ice Bomb
4C20.25 - Change of Volume with Change of State - Melting Iceberg
4C20.30 - Regelation - Cutting Ice Blocks with a Wire
4C20.36 - Liquifying CO2
4C20.40 - Freezing Liquid Nitrogen or Liquid Argon - Reduced Pressure
4C20.50 - Heat of Fusion of Water
4C20.54 - Latent Heat of Fusion
4C20.60 - Heat of Crystallization
4C20.99 - Wood's or Field's Metal - Liquid Metal Alloys
Phase Changes: Liquid - Gas
4C30.10 - Reduced Pressure Boiling
4C30.25 - Geyser - Relaxation Oscillator
4C30.30 - Helium, CO2, and Argon Balloons in Liquid N2
4C30.33 - Ice Stove
4C30.40 - Heat of Vaporization
4C30.80 - Liquid Nitrogen - Making Liquid O2 & Liquid Argon
4C30.90 - Liquid Nitrogen Cloud
Cooling by Evaporation
4C31.20 - Triple Point Demo
4C31.21 - Freezing Water - Reduced Pressure
4C31.30 - Drinking Bird - Relaxation Oscillators
4C31.35 - Cooling By Evaporation
4C31.37 - Franklin's Pulse Glass Engine - Relaxation Oscillators
Dew Point and Humidity
4C32.10 - Wet & Dry Bulb Hygrometer - Sling Psychrometer
4C32.15 - Relative Humidity Indicator - Hygrometer
4C32.21 - Dew Point
4C32.30 - Relative Moisture Meter
Vapor Pressure
4C33.31 - Pressure Cooker
4C33.50 - Franklin's Pulse Glass - Hand Boilers
Sublimation
4C40.10 - Sublimation of Dry Ice
4C40.11 - Screaming Ice--CO2 and Metal Plate
4C40.15 - Change of Volume with Change of State - CO2 or Liq. N2 and a Balloon
Phase Changes: Solid - Solid
4C45.15 - Nitinol Wire
Critical Point
4C50.20 - Critical Opalescence
4C50.30 - Critical Temperature - Sulfur Hexafluoride
4C50.40 - Equiphase Cell
Kinetic Theory
Brownian Motion
4D10.10 - Brownian Motion
Mean Free Path
4D20.10 - Radiometer
Kinetic Motion
4D30.20 - Kinetic Theory of Gases Demos - Overhead Model
4D30.38 - Kinetic Theory of Gases Demos - Ping Pong Balls
4D30.45 - Kinetic Theory - Internal Energy
Molecular Dimensions
4D40.10 - Monomolecular Layer
Diffusion and Osmosis
4D50.42 - Cloud Formation
4D50.60 - Diffusion - Liquids
4D50.65 - Diffusion Through a Balloon
4D50.66 - Diffusion - Eggs and Food Coloring
4D50.70 - Permeable Membrane - Osmosis
Gas Law
Constant Pressure
4E10.05 - Gas 3-D
4E10.10 - Charles' Law and Gas Pressure Doing Work - Glass Piston
4E10.16 - Gay-Lussac's Gas Law
4E10.20 - Liquid Nitrogen - Balloons
Constant Temperature
4E20.25 - Boyle's Law Demos - Overhead Model
4E20.40 - Balloons, Marshmallows, Shaving Cream & Ivory Foam in a Vacuum
Constant Volume
4E30.10 - Constant Volume Bulb - Absolute Zero Apparatus
4E30.20 - Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
Entropy and the Second Law
Entropy
4F10.00 - Entropy
4F10.10 - Rotational Shear Forces - Glycerin and Ink
4F10.25 - Maxwell's Demon
4F10.40 - Dust Explosions
4F10.45 - Gas Explosions
4F10.50 - Gas Properties and Flammability
Heat Cycles
4F30.01 - Hero's Engine
4F30.10 - Stirling Engine
4F30.20 - Steam Engines
4F30.25 - Liquid Nitrogen Engine
4F30.40 - Refrigerator
4F30.50 - Otto Cycle Engine
4F30.52 - Gas Engine Model
4F30.60 - Nitinol Wire - Memory Wire
4F30.70 - Rubber Band Engine
4F30.96 - Carnot Engine