Dominion Web Directory : Science : Physics : Education : Demonstrations

http://physicslearning.colorado.edu:9999/vestris/QuerySp.html

Search 56 Physics Lecture Demonstration Websites at once. The web's only indexes of University Physics Lecture Demonstration Websites.
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu:9999/vestris/QuerySp.html

http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/pira200/pira200.htm

» PIRA 200 Demo List

A collection of 200 physics demos believed by professionals to be essential in teaching about the most common physics phenomena. Demos are sorted by topic and illustrated.
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/pira200/pira200.htm

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney/AppComp/1999Entries/ac99.htm

» Apparatus Competition, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1999
Entries and winners, San Antonio, Texas, August 4, 1999
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney/AppComp/1999Entries/ac99.htm

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/demos.htm

» Donald Simanek, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Physics Lecture Demonstrations
Lecture demonstrations for physics courses, compiled and annotated by Dr Donald Simanek. Reads like a storybook.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/demos.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Show/menu.html

» Dramatic Physics Demonstrations
Physics demonstrations for classroom use. Covers Newton's Laws, Air pressure, heat and other areas. Contains instructions for making many of the demos.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Show/menu.html

http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/electrostatic.html

» Electrostatic Machines
Construction details and history of the classic electrostatic generators. Very detailed and descriptive site, with pictures and directions for a wide variety of generators.
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/electrostatic.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Fire/FireTxt/fire.html

» Firewalking Myth vs Physics
Information on firewalking from people who firewalk. Background on firewalking and data on modern walks. Information for putting on your own.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Fire/FireTxt/fire.html

http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~jones/demos/

» Industrial Electrostatics Demonstrations
The project described at this web page was undertaken to develop a set of demonstrations having clear relevance to manufacturing and commercial operations. Some of these demonstrations should also serve to augment the science teacher's or hobbyist's bag o
http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~jones/demos/

http://www.csuohio.edu/physics/walker/JWNOTES2.html

» Jearl Walker Discusses the Flying Circus
Reflects on successes and failures doing the 'bed of nails' trick, and tells how to get videotapes of some of his shows.
http://www.csuohio.edu/physics/walker/JWNOTES2.html

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm

» Julien Clinton Sprott, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Physics Demonstrations, A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
Physics demonstrations, descriptions, discussions of the physics, and hazards to avoid. Groupings are light, magnetism, electricity, sound, heat, and motion.
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm

http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/pira.asp

» PIRA Demonstration Bibliography
an up-to-date, searchable, interactive version produced and maintained by the Physics Instructional Resource Demonstration Classification Committee. It includes about 9265 entries.
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/pira.asp

http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/dcs/PIRADCS.html

» PIRA Demonstration Classification Scheme
The Excel file versions of the Demonstration Classification Scheme, sponsored by PIRA, the Physics Instructional Resource Association
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/dcs/PIRADCS.html

http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/willey.html

» Physics Behind Four Amazing Demonstrations, Skeptical Inquirer
Physics theory behind four dramatic demonstrations: walking on broken glass, dipping one's fingers in molten lead, breaking a concrete block over someone lying between beds of nails, and picking up an orange-hot piece of silica tile.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/willey.html

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/resources/resources.html

» Physics Demonstration Resources Online, University of Texas at Austin
For physics educators interested in developing demonstrations. Provides links to many colleges' demo resources.
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/resources/resources.html

» Physics Demonstration Resources on the Web
PIRA Website
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/index.htm

» Physics Demonstrations and Science Exhibit Designs
Bill Beaty's Science Hobbyist site. Includes many links to his and other demonstration sources.
http://www.amasci.com/scied.html

http://www.physics.org/article-interact.asp?id=59

» Physics.org - Physics To Go
Recipes for and videos of 20 easy-to-replicate physics-based tricks. These were produced in Einstein Year, 2005, to help Institute of Physics members engage non-physicists.
http://www.physics.org/article-interact.asp?id=59

http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/bklst.htm

» Pre-College Demonstration Book List, University of Maryland
Annotated list of books for physics and physical science demonstrations as well as science fair projects.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/bklst.htm

http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/Sutton/Sutton.htm

» Richard Sutton, "Demonstration Experiments in Physics"
The complete text of Sutton's 1938 American classic "Bible" of physics lecture demonstration in pdf format.
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/Sutton/Sutton.htm

http://www.alaska.net/~natnkell/staticgen.htm

» Static Electricity Generator
How to make and use a frictional static electricity generator which makes HUGE sparks. Also, links to other electricity demos on the internet.
http://www.alaska.net/~natnkell/staticgen.htm

» Tarzan Swing, PennState York
Tarzan (a water balloon) is swinging on a thread which is cut by a hot wire mid-flight; students must project Tarzan safely through a hole surrounded by pins.
http://www2.yk.psu.edu/stem/tarzan.html

» The Cathode Ray Tube site
Images and history of old technical glassware and physical instruments, many of which are used for demonstrations in courses worldwide.
http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/

http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/QOTW/active/questions.htm

» The Physics Question of the Week, University of Maryland
Each week a new question will be posted and the answer for the previous Question of the Week will be shown. The questions involve real experimental physics, so part of the answers will be photographs and short videos of the experiments carried out in det
http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/QOTW/active/questions.htm

http://ase.tufts.edu/csmt/html/abstracts/physteach.html

» Using Interactive Lecture Demonstrations to Create an Active Learning Environment
Physics Teacher Abstract, David R. Sokoloff and Ronald K. Thornton, Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
http://ase.tufts.edu/csmt/html/abstracts/physteach.html

http://www3.science.tamu.edu/cmse/videoanalysis/

» Video Analysis Investigations for Physics and Mathematics
Contains short video clips that may be used in teaching and learning physics concepts using any one of several video analysis software programs. The video clips linked to this page are also useful in algebra, trigonometry, and calculus studies by providi
http://www3.science.tamu.edu/cmse/videoanalysis/

http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/video_demos/index.html

» Video Demonstrations, Colorado State University College of Engineering
Various principles and devices, including dynamics, mechanisms, vibration and sound, mechatronics and measurement systems, pool and billiards, and solid mechanics.
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/video_demos/index.html