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Title: High school physics tricks?
Post by: John Gateley on November 08, 2011, 07:04:30 pm

I need some high school level physics tricks. Things like: get a match to stand upright in a bowl of water (inch or two deep). Light the match, invert a glass over the match, and watch the water level rise when the match goes out.

Yaobing? Any ideas?

Thanks

John

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: brossmac on November 09, 2011, 07:22:52 pm

http://www.iop.org/resources/videos/physics-tricks/index.html

Some good ones there.

This site has links to a lot of great resources for science teachers (which I used to be):

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

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: rjm on November 09, 2011, 09:46:53 pm

Imagine looking for this information 10 years ago. How things have changed...

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: imugli on November 10, 2011, 01:42:10 am

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-suck-egg-into-glass-bottle-and-hear-crazy-sound-267355/

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: John Gateley on November 10, 2011, 08:59:39 pm

Thanks Everyone for the ideas...

j

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: imugli on November 10, 2011, 10:02:42 pm

Youtube Cadbury Julius Sumner Miller.

They used to have great commercials back in the 80s with this sort of stuff.

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: Yaobing on November 11, 2011, 12:19:04 am

One of my favorite demonstrations that I showed my students was Bernoulli balls (listed on IOP Institution of Physics page linked by brossmac).  I used a Shop Vac with hose plugged in the blowing hole instead of a hair dryer.

Title: Re: High school physics tricks?
Post by: Yaobing on November 11, 2011, 12:46:51 am

Quote from: imugli on November 10, 2011, 10:02:42 pm

Youtube Cadbury Julius Sumner Miller.

I taped some of his demos from PBS.  May still have that VCR cassette somewhere in the garage.