General Handouts

• Exam 1 spec sheet (draft)
• Bifilar pendulum (support an object with two or more long threads to find its rotational inertia)
• Bifilar pendulum using torque instead of energy
• Brief theory of gyroscopic motion
• Adiabatic process: p V ^ gamma = constant (Ch 17)
• Final Exam Fall 2004
• Final Exam Specs Fall 2006

• Monkey/Hunter instructions (mostly for plotting things)
• How to insert a slider (scroll bar)
• Instructions for building an RK2 numerical integration for vertical motion w air drag
• water vapor pressure starting spreadsheet

• Warm-Up WS on first day
• Pivoted rod angular acceleration (rod 'outruns' a falling ball at low angles of release)
• Torque and angular momentum
• Moment of inertia via parallel axis theorem
• Moment of inertia review and WS
• Bike wheel summary WS on moment of inertia
• Torques on a decelerating car, nosing down
• Design of Erie Canal Weigh Lock
• Acceleration while rolling without slipping

• adiabatic compression lab
• viscosity experiment
• conservation of angular momentum
• thermal expansion coefficient

heat capacity of metals using liquid nitrogen