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Swarthmore Physics Demonstrations
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B-field Demonstrators
B-field of Current
Back EMF Spark
Barber Pole
Battery and Steel Wool
Birefringence & Optical Activity
Capacitor Discharge
Charge and Pivot
Charge on Conductor
Charged Balloons
Coulomb Apparatus
Crossed Polarizers
Crude Generator and Motor
Current Balance
Current in Solenoid
Diamagnetic Levitation
Dip Needle
Dynamo
E over M Apparatus
e-beam in B-field
Electrical Circuits (outreach set)
Electromagnet
Electromagnetic Induction (outreach set)
Electrophorus
Electroscope
Energy Ball
Energy in Capacitor
Faraday Cage
Faraday Ice Pail
Ferrofluid
Field around Current
Flame in Capacitor
Force on Capacitor Plates
Force on Dielectric
Force on Wire
Gauss’s Law
Glowing Pickle
Guitar Pickups
Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator
Hand-Cranked Generators
Homopolar Motor
Human Battery
Induction Boxes
Induction Firefly
Induction Light-tube
Induction Pendulum
Infrared Camera
Ion Motor
Jumping Ring
Jumping Wire / Parallel Currents
Kelvin Water Dropper
Lemon Battery
Lenz’s Law Pendulum
Lenz’s Law Pipe
Lenz’s Law Plate
Leyden Jar
Light Bulb Energy Usage
Lights in Series and Parallel
Lorentz Force
Magnet and Solenoid
Magnetic Domains
Magnetic Torque
Magnetizer
Meissner Effect
Microwave Optics
Mutual Induction
Optical Rotation Bowl
Parallel Currents
Paramagnetism of LOx
Penguin Circuit
Photovoltaic Cell
Polarizers
Polymagnets (demo set)
Prisms
Rolling Magnet
Solar Cell
Space-time Fabric
Static Charge Indicator
Static Electricity (outreach set)
Tesla Coil
Transmission Speed
Van de Graaff Gen.
Van de Graaff Generator
Victorian Bulb
Wimshurst Generator
Wire loop in B-field