Web Directory

» Apparatus Competition, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1999
   Entries and winners, San Antonio, Texas, August 4, 1999
   http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney/AppComp/1999Entries/ac99.htm

» Donald Simanek, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Physics Lecture Demonstrations
   Lecture demonstrations for physics courses, compiled and annotated by Dr Donald Simanek. Reads like a storybook.
   http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/demos.htm

» Dramatic Physics Demonstrations
   Physics demonstrations for classroom use. Covers Newton's Laws, Air pressure, heat and other areas. Contains instructions for making many of the demos.
   http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Show/menu.html

» Electrostatic Machines
   Construction details and history, with pictures and directions for a wide variety of generators.
   http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/electrostatic.html

» Firewalking Myth vs Physics
   Information on firewalking from people who firewalk. Background on firewalking and data on modern walks. Information for putting on your own.
   http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Fire/FireTxt/fire.html

» Industrial Electrostatics Demonstrations
   The project described at this web page was undertaken to develop a set of demonstrations having clear relevance to manufacturing and commercial operations. Some of these demonstrations should also serve to augment the science teacher's or hobbyist's bag o
   http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~jones/demos/

» Julien Clinton Sprott, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Physics Demonstrations, A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
   Physics demonstrations, descriptions, discussions of the physics, and hazards to avoid. Groupings are light, magnetism, electricity, sound, heat, and motion.
   http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm

» PIRA Demonstration Bibliography
   An up-to-date, searchable, interactive version produced and maintained by the Physics Instructional Resource Demonstration Classification Committee. It contains about 9265 entries.
   http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/pira.asp

» PIRA Demonstration Classification Scheme
   The Excel file versions of the Demonstration Classification Scheme, sponsored by PIRA, the Physics Instructional Resource Association
   http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/dcs/PIRADCS.html

» Physics Behind Four Amazing Demonstrations, Skeptical Inquirer
   Physics theory behind four dramatic demonstrations: walking on broken glass, dipping one's fingers in molten lead, breaking a concrete block over someone lying between beds of nails, and picking up an orange-hot piece of silica tile.
   http://www.csicop.org/si/show/physics_behind_four_amazing_demonstrations/

» Physics Demonstration Resources Online, University of Texas at Austin
   For physics educators interested in developing demonstrations. Provides links to many colleges' demo resources.
   http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/resources/resources.html

» Physics Demonstration Resources on the Web
   PIRA Website
   http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/index.htm

» Physics Demonstrations and Science Exhibit Designs
   Bill Beaty's Science Hobbyist site. Includes many links to his and other demonstration sources.
   http://www.amasci.com/scied.html

» Physics.org - Physics To Go
   Recipes for and videos of 20 easy-to-replicate physics-based tricks. These were produced in Einstein Year, 2005, to help Institute of Physics members engage non-physicists.
   http://www.physics.org/article-interact.asp?id=59

» Pre-College Demonstration Book List, University of Maryland
   Annotated list of books for physics and physical science demonstrations as well as science fair projects.
   http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/bklst.htm

» Richard Sutton, "Demonstration Experiments in Physics"
   The complete text of Sutton's 1938 American classic "Bible" of physics lecture demonstration in pdf format.
   http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/PiraHome/Sutton/Sutton.htm

» Society of Physics Students, California State University, Chico - Award Winning Activities
   Images and movies of The Annual Pumpkin Drop (repeating Galileo's famous experiment), The Rocket Trike, The Great Can Crush, and the making of Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream.
   http://phys.csuchico.edu:16080/sps/activities.shtml

» Static Electricity Generator
   How to make and use a frictional static electricity generator which makes HUGE sparks. Also, links to other electricity demos on the internet.
   http://www.alaska.net/~natnkell/staticgen.htm

» Tarzan Swing, PennState York
   Tarzan (a water balloon) is swinging on a thread which is cut by a hot wire mid-flight; students must project Tarzan safely through a hole surrounded by pins.
   http://www2.yk.psu.edu/stem/tarzan.html

» The Cathode Ray Tube site
   Images and history of old technical glassware and physical instruments, many of which are used for demonstrations in courses worldwide.
   http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/

» The Physics Question of the Week, University of Maryland
   Each week a new question will be posted and the answer for the previous Question of the Week will be shown. The questions involve real experimental physics, so part of the answers will be photographs and short videos of the experiments carried out in dete
   http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/QOTW/active/questions.htm

» Using Interactive Lecture Demonstrations to Create an Active Learning Environment
   Physics Teacher Abstract, David R. Sokoloff and Ronald K. Thornton, Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
   http://ase.tufts.edu/csmt/html/abstracts/physteach.html

» Video Analysis Investigations for Physics and Mathematics
   Contains short video clips that may be used in teaching and learning physics concepts using any one of several video analysis software programs. The video clips linked to this page are also useful in algebra, trigonometry, and calculus studies by providin
   http://www3.science.tamu.edu/cmse/videoanalysis/

» Video Demonstrations, Colorado State University College of Engineering
   Various principles and devices, including dynamics, mechanisms, vibration and sound, mechatronics and measurement systems, pool and billiards, and solid mechanics.
   http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/video_demos/index.html