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John Gateley

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High school physics tricks?
« 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

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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #1 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
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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2011, 09:46:53 pm »

Imagine looking for this information 10 years ago. How things have changed...
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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2011, 08:59:39 pm »

Thanks Everyone for the ideas...

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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: High school physics tricks?
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2011, 12:46:51 am »

Youtube Cadbury Julius Sumner Miller.

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