The Spring 2007 LHU Physics Club Demo Show

Saturday, 4PM, April 28, 2007

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Head of Ceremonies: DJ Scott
Student Presenters: Jose Baltazer, Carolyn Braun, Reuben McClelland , Ryan Muschick, Shawn Pickering, Joe Schwind, DJ Scott, Elliot Walker,
Faculty: John Reid, Marian Tzolov

List of Demos

Demonstration	Presenter
Large Lever	Ryan Muschick
Center-of-Mass Disk	Reuben McClelland
Trebuchet	Shawn Pickering
Indo Board	Shawn Pickering
Water Swinging in a Circle	Elliot Walker
Pulling on Paper	Joe Schwind
Standing on Paper	Joe Schwind
Standing on Eggs	Shawn Pickering
Resonance with a Spring	Reuben McClelland
Resonance with an Electric Drill	John Reid
Resonance with Sound and Salt	Reuben McClelland
Gyroscope	Elliot Walker
Electricity and Balloons	Carolyn Braun, DJ Scott
Van de Graaff Generator	Ryan Muschick
Falling Magnets	Marian Tzolov
Jacob’s Ladder	DJ Scott
Hovercraft	Carolyn Braun
Behind the Scenes: Jose Baltazar

A good audience in Thomas Field House

Carolyn demonstrates static electricity with the help of some kids from the audience. She rubs balloons and shows how they stick to the kids.

Ryan moves a soda can by charging a PVC pipe - rubbing it with fur.

Reuben and Dr. Reid toss the center-of-mass back and forth.

DJ - Our host with the most bad puns.

Shawns shows how strong an egg is my havnig Dr. Reid stand on a platform supported only by the egg. (The last photo is from practice.)

Joe shows how stron a piece of paper can be when cleverly used. First he lifts about 80lbs with one sheet of paper. Then he has John stand on paper.

Shawn does a great

DJ shows us climbing sparks with his Jacob's ladder.

Ryan and Elliot have some kids lift their parents off the ground with a long lever.

Marian shows how induced eddy currents make non-ferromagnetic objects display magnetic behavior.

Reuben shows how a simple flat plate shows interesting pattern when made to vibrate at certain (resonate) frequencies.

Ryan and Reuben show resonance using long spring. They wiggle it until they wiggle it at just the right rate, and then the spring shows interesting patterns.

John shows how different length pieces of metal will vibrate one at a time when shaken. He used a wobbly drill the shake them.

Elliot talks about circular motion and swings a glass of water upside down without spillng a drop.

Shawn gets out his famous trebuchet and launches a tennis ball across the gym.

Elliot shows the odd behavior of a rotating wheel when a torque is applied.

Here you can see the pick up truck we used to haul all the stuff from Ulmer over to Thomas Field House. Reuben drove and didn't damage any equipment or lose a single person.