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Two forks, a cork, and a matchstick balance on the lip of a glass.

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Balancing two forks in an unlikely configuration is a lesson in finding the center of mass and stable equilibrium. Nothing too deep here, but it's fun.

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Two forks...

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Demonstration of elastic collisions between metal balls to show conservation of momentum and energy.

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Newton's Cradle (less affectionately known as Newton's Balls) consists of six rigid balls hanging in a row with bifilar...

Small gyroscope used primarily as a stage prop in discussion.

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When two different size soap bubbles are connected together, the smaller diameter bubble will shrink and collapse to blow up the larger diameter bubble. One can use this to demonstrate Laplace's law or the phenomenon of minimizing the...

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A liquid in a number of different shaped communicating vessels will find the same level in each.

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The pressure at the bottom of the fluid depends upon the depth of the fluid and not on the shape of the container. The apparatus...

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The setup shows the direct comparison between four capillary tubes of different bores. The...

Relation between circular motion and linear displacement on overhead projector.

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Uniform circular motion can be shown to be the superposition of simple harmonic motions in two mutually perpendicular directions. This apparatus gives the...

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Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the...