Document Type
Presentation - Oral - to professional peers
Physics at home: demonstrations with things that students may already have
Department
Physics & Engineering
Date of Activity
Summer 2023
Abstract
A ukulele can be used to demonstrate some properties in common with a confined quantum system: quantized frequencies and (classical) superposition. A hardware store "laser line level" can be used for ray tracing on the whiteboard. A medicine ball can be used to demonstrate that a particle moving in a straight line does have angular momentum. A bathroom scale can be used for static equilibrium demonstrations. Action figures and a camera can be used to anchor discussions of relativity.
Recommended Citation
W. Blake Laing, Physics at home: demonstrations with things that students may already have American Association of Physics Teachers 2023 Summer Meeting
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