Resource Letter PhD-2: Physics Demonstrations expanded version


Michigan Technological University Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility



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Michigan Technological University Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility


  1. http://physics.msstate.edu/demos/

Mississippi State University Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations

  • About 325 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions with some detail.

  1. http://www.physics.montana.edu/demonstrations/home.html

Montana State University: Welcome to the Demo Room.

  • Almost 600 demonstrations with pictures and brief descriptions.

  1. http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/demoroom/

North Carolina State University Physics Demonstrations.

  • Descriptions of over 500 demonstrations with photographs.

  • About 100 short videos of the demonstrations.

  • Running summary of the “Top 50” demonstrations used over the past twelve years.

  • List of suggested demonstrations by chapter for eight popular textbooks.

  • Nice list of demonstration equipment suppliers.

  • “Isaac & Albert's Excellent Adventure” public programs.

  1. http://physics.okstate.edu/ackerson/Physics_demos/

Ohio State University Physics Demonstrations

  • About 175 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  1. https://www.physics.purdue.edu/demos/

Purdue University College of Science Department of Physics Demonstrations

  • About 350 demonstrations with brief descriptions and photographs.

  1. http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/

University of California Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations.

  • About 700 demonstrations with line drawings and short explanations.

  • Links to simulations and videos.

  1. http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

  • Over 300 demonstrations with short descriptions and photographs or sketches.

  • Nice sections on Unique UCLA Demos and Unusual Physics.

  1. http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/dept/facilities/labs/demos/

University of California, San Diego, Physics Lecture Equipment and Demonstrations

  • Over 150 demonstrations with pictures and brief descriptions.

  1. http://homepages.uc.edu/physics/resources/demoweb/

University of Cincinnati Department of Physics Lecture Demonstration Home Page.

  • Almost 200 demonstrations, most with pictures and descriptions.

  1. http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/Website_new/Common/ldl.asp

University of Colorado Lecture Demonstration Laboratory.

  • Site includes about 425 demonstration write-ups covering all areas of basic physics, with color photographs, list of equipment, brief description, and history of use.

  • Running lists of the demonstrations used by all physics and astronomy classes.

  1. http://www.phys.ufl.edu/demo/index.html

University of Florida Physics Department Demonstration Page.

  • About 425 demonstrations listed, some with pictures and brief descriptions.

  • Over 100 short demonstration videos.

  1. http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/demo/tableofcontents.asp

University of Illinois at Chicago Physics Demo Home Page.

  1. http://demo.physics.uiuc.edu/LectDemo/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics Lecture Demonstrations.

  • About 750 demonstrations with short descriptions.

  1. http://faraday.physics.uiowa.edu/

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations.

  • Descriptions of over 1325 demonstrations with photographs.

  • Over 250 short videos of demonstrations.

  • Extensive listings of teacher resources, Java applets, science related listservs, manufacturers of science equipment, and science equipment catalogs.

  • Listings of links to science humor and physics songs.

  • Links to science museums, libraries, archives, and history.

  • “Hawk-Eyes on Science” outreach program with descriptions, pictures, and videos.

  1. http://www2.ku.edu/~physics/dept/pademo.shtml

University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy Demos

  • About 235 demonstrations with relatively detailed explanations.

  1. http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/

University of Maryland Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility.

  • Descriptions of over 1550 demonstrations with photographs, many with videos.

  • About 500 short videos of demonstrations on line.

  • Suggested demonstrations for courses, including Acoustics and Optics core courses.

  • Summaries of demonstration use over a nine year period in 15 lower level courses.

  • Summaries of demonstrations used in all courses for a nine year period.

  • The Physics Question of the Week.

  • Physics is Phun local demonstration programs and traveling programs.

  1. http://lecturedemo.ph.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Physics Lecture Demonstration

  • Almost 300 demonstrations with pictures and brief descriptions.

  • Link to the Physics Museum.

  1. https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/physics/demolab/

University of Michigan Physics Demonstration Home Page

  • Over 800 demonstrations with nice pictures and short descriptions (over 25 Astronomy).

  • Over 50 short videos of demonstrations.

  • Lists of (1) simple, (2) hands-on, and (3) inexpensive demonstrations.

  1. http://groups.physics.umn.edu/demo/

University of Minnesota Physics Lecture Demonstrations.

  • Over 1000 demonstrations with about 700 attached videos.

  • Separate list of available videos.

  1. http://physics.unl.edu/undergrad/demonstrations.html,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstration Catalogs

  • About 685 demonstrations with pictures and brief descriptions.

  • Outreach for elementary students, both traveling and local programs.

  • Summer astronomy workshop for teachers.

  • New demo facility with compact shelving and inventory system.

  1. http://panda.unm.edu/pandaweb/demos/index.php

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Regener Hall Lecture Demonstrations

  • About 350 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  • Set of “predictive demonstrations.”

  1. http://www.physics.unc.edu/demos/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations.

  • Over 180 demonstrations with photographs and short descriptions.

  1. http://www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/demoroomindex.htm

University of North Texas Physics Lecture Demonstration Home Page

  • Over 175 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  • Suggested demonstrations for several basic physics courses.

  1. http://physics.uoregon.edu/~demo/Demo/demo.html

University of Oregon Physics Demonstration Catalog.

  • Over 350 demonstrations with sketches and short descriptions.

  1. http://physics.usc.edu/demolab/index.html

University of Southern California, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Physics Demo Lab

  • About 270 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  1. http://www.phys.utk.edu/demoroom/

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Physics Demonstration Room Webpage

  • About 130 demonstrations with pictures and creative descriptions.

  1. http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/

University of Texas at Austin Physics Lecture Demonstration Office.

  • Over 250 demonstrations with pictures and brief descriptions.

  1. http://demolab.phys.virginia.edu/demos/demolab.asp

University of Virginia Physics Lecture Demonstrations Laboratory.

  • About 250 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  • Thorough lists of demos used for over ten years in about a dozen basic physics classes, including How Things Work, the class originated by Louis Bloomfield at Virginia.

  1. http://www.phys.washington.edu/facilities/lectdemo/toc.html

University of Washington Physics Department Lecture Demonstrations

  • Approximately 750 demonstrations with brief descriptions.

Note: Demonstrations at the University of Washington Physics Department were used to video about 570 of the 600 demonstrations in the Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations (The other 30 were videotaped at the University of Maryland.).

  1. http://www.physics.wisc.edu/facultywiki/Demonstrations

University of Wisconsin Physics Lecture Demonstrations

  • Over 1000 demonstrations, some have descriptions and nice photographs.

  • WIKI system to obtain information on demonstrations. (Search by subject, course, or storage location.)

  • Nice pictures of 50 exhibits in the "L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum" Established in 1918: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/museum/

  1. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps-demos/

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Physics Teachers’ Resource Bank

  • Large collection of demonstrations that can be loaned for use at schools in New Zealand.

  1. http://www.phys.vt.edu/~demo/

Virginia Tech University Department of Physics Demonstration List

  • Over 200 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  1. http://www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/

Wake Forest University Physics Department Online Demonstration List

  • Over 230 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions.

  • Over 150 videos, linked to demos and separately indexed.

  1. http://www.physics.wsu.edu/demos/

Washington State University Department of Physics and Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations.

  • Over 500 demonstrations with short descriptions, some with photos and videos.

  1. http://www.as.wvu.edu/phys/demobook/demo_menu.htm

West Virginia University Physics Department: Physics Demonstrations.

  • About 180 demonstrations with short descriptions.

  1. http://ris-systech2.its.yale.edu/physics/demos/demomain.asp,

Yale Physics Labs: Lecture Demonstrations.

  • Over 300 demonstrations with pictures and descriptions; approximately 30 with videos.

  1. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/

SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Top Page, Bill Beaty. While this web site is not exactly what you would call a university physics demonstration page, it does have information about lots of physics demonstrations as well as a mind-numbing collection of other information, as can be seen by viewing the top page. Through the years I have had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things that helped me in understanding my work better by perusing this web site. The highlights include: demonstration lists, physics toys, physics and electronics projects, a large textbook errors, science fair information and projects, and a collection of other unusual topics. It is worth knowing what is in this site if you are in the business and need good ideas or answers to weird questions from time to time. Nice site! (E)

  1. http://www.uvm.edu/~dahammon/museum/

University of Vermont Physics Department Antique Demonstrations and Apparatus. This is a very nice pictorial catalog, including a large amount of historical equipment, catalogued by maker, device, topic and date. (I)

  1. http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/index.html

Instruments for Natural Philosophy, Thomas Greenslade, Kenyon College. This is an outstanding collection of historical physics demonstration equipment, collected and organized by Thomas Greenslade, the world expert on antique physics equipment. The site displays pictures, descriptions, documentation, and references for about 1850 pieces of apparatus. This is an incredible treasure, well worth any time taken to browse through the site. (I)

  1. http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/index.html, The Little Shop of Physics, Brian Jones, Colorado State University. This group has a collection of more than 100 physics demonstrations that are used in several excellent programs aimed at pre-college students and teachers. They hold an annual demonstration open house at the University, and present a variety of demonstration workshops for teachers. (I)

  2. http://van.physics.illinois.edu/k12/, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign SCIENCE 2 SCHOOLS. This is the home page of the University of Illinois Physics Van. On the page is a map of the United States with indicators linked to all of the known traveling physics programs in the states. Click on the geographical indicator or on the state to get contact information for the program in which you are interested. The site seems up-to-date. According to the director, Mats Selen, anyone who wants to have something added to the map can email physvan@illinois.edu. Very nice site! (E)

  3. http://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/guide/road/programs.cfm, American Physical Society: Physics on the Road Programs. This is the formal listing of 22 traveling physics programs known to the American Physical Society. This is not a complete list, compared with the UIUC list above, so people interested in advertisement for their physics road shows should contact the webmaster and send in their information. (E)



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  1. http://www.edgroup.org/, The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, John A. Davis, Brett Carroll, Richard E. Berg, and Jearl Walker, Spanish translations by Adelaida Lopez-Mejia, Josip Slisko, and Raul A. Brito Orta (The Education Group, Inc., 2011) This is a professionally produced set of 600 physics demonstrations, covering all areas of physics. Accompanying written literature discusses the demonstrations in some depth, provides reference material, and gives further information regarding their use. These videos are very appropriate for use in high schools and college/university basic physics courses, especially where demonstrations are not readily available. The Education Group has made many of these films available to students and faculty at certain schools and universities by a special licensing agreement; talk with the company representative to see if your school can make such an arrangement. A full set of 25 DVDs with both English and Spanish narrative is now available from The Education Group; other language narratives are being prepared. (E)

  2. http://www.physicscurriculum.com/video.htm, Physics Curriculum & Instruction, Physics DVD Titles. Twenty videos of approximately 30 minute length are available, covering the following areas of physics: mechanics (6 films), heat (3 films), sound and waves (3 films), light (2 films), electricity and magnetism (3 films), space flight (3 films) and high-speed photography (1 film). Each individual film includes about eight of the popular physics demonstrations. These films are very professionally done. (E)

  3. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm, Wonders of Physics, Julien Clinton Sprott (University of Wisconsin, 1986-2010). The Wonders of Physics is the title given to the yearly series of public demonstration lectures that Professor Sprott had presented at the University of Wisconsin since 1986. All 27 of these lectures have been videotaped, and are available from the University of Wisconsin in DVD format. Two additional DVDs, with individual demonstration segments for about 85 of the demonstrations which Professor Sprott discusses in his book, Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics, are available with the book. Professor Sprott is a highly respected researcher and outstanding teacher, and his Wonders of Physics programs are immensely popular. Information regarding the purchase of these materials is found at the above URL. (E)

  4. http://www.ovguide.com/tv/the_kinetic_karnival_of_jearl_walker.htm, The Kinetic Karnival Of Jearl Walker, Jearl Walker (WVIZ/PBS Ideastream®, Cleveland, Ohio, 2011). This is a set of six 30-minute videos created by Professor Walker in the 1970s. Titles include: 1. Forces and Collisions, 2. Rotation, 3. Fluid Flow and Friction, 4. Viscosity, 5. The Leidenfrost Effect, and 6. The Science of Cooking. They are all very creatively done, with nice short explanations of the phenomena demonstrated.

Video orders can be placed with the WVIZ/PBS Ideastream® Idea Center®: http://www.wviz.org/index.php/education/itv_order/13283/.

If you are contemplating doing the “finger in molten lead” or the “walking on red-hot coals” demonstrations, you should probably watch the video entitled The Leidenfrost Effect. These experiments can be very dangerous; serious injury can occur if something goes wrong, even when you believe that you are doing the demonstrations properly. (E)



  1. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/video?viewall=1, Steve Spangler’s Science, Steve Spangler (Steve Spangler’s Science, 2011). This web site contains over 300 short videos of physics demonstration experiments as performed by Steve Spangler on his weekly Science Mondays segments on KUSA-TV 9 News in Denver. The production is professional and the explanations are brief. These videos can be nicely used in a number of classroom situations, so are well worth reviewing. (E)

  2. http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/services/refs/DIAdescrip.htm Demonstrations in Acoustics, Richard E. Berg and David G. Stork (Physics Department, University of Maryland, 1979, 2004). This is a set of two 2-hour DVDs with over 75 individual demonstrations in 29 titled segments; topics include vibrations, waves, and sound, at the level of an introductory non-major college course; a complete listing with further descriptions will be found on the web site. The material was recorded in 1979, and re-issued in DVD format in 2004. These demonstrations, along with large number of others, are used in the Physics of Sound course at the University of Maryland. (E)

  3. http://courses2.cit.cornell.edu/physicsdemos/, The Physics Video Demonstration Database, Cornell University (Matthias Liepe, 2008-2011). The Database includes about 180 films produced at Cornell as well as a number of films submitted by other institutions. (E,I)

  4. http://demo1.physics.wisc.edu/Shortfilms/1960sFilmLoops.html

University of Wisconsin. About 113 short films (most originally 8mm film loops) have been converted to Quicktime movie format and can be seen on this web site. Many of these films can be purchased in DVD format in the Physics Single-concept Films described below. (E)

  1. http://www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/bychptr/bychptr.htm Wake Forest University Physics Demonstration Videos. This web site includes over 150 short videos of demonstrations covering many topics of the general physics curriculum. (E)

  2. http://video_demos.colostate.edu/, Engineering and Physics Video Demonstrations, Dave Hall (Colorado State University, 2011). This site contains a very large number of demonstration videos, along with simulations, covering a large number of physics and engineering topics. These materials are short and to the point, and are of excellent technical quality and carefully designed for clarity, both in the videography and in the physics explanations provided. This is one place that you should always look if you need high-quality short films. A short list of other physics film sources is also given. (E,I,A)

  3. http://alfredleitner.com/ Alfred Leitner's Old Physics Stories. This page includes links to five movies, in the areas of low temperature physics (at Michigan State University) and classical optics (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), produced by Professor Alfred Leitner. As an MSU physics graduate student in the 1960s, my laboratory was across the hall from Professor Leitner’s production studio, and I found his experiments and videos on superconductivity and superfluid He3 to be immensely interesting and insightful. At this site you will be able to view and download any of the five excellent movies that Professor Leitner has produced. (I)

  4. http://home.messiah.edu/~barrett/mpg/mpg.html, Physics Movies [mpg’s], Robert Barrett, Messiah College. This web page contains short film loops on wave motion produced by Professor Barrett in the 1960s era, as well as some films that he produced in later years. I have used several of these in teaching elementary physics as well as sound and light courses for non-physics students, and found them very helpful. You may download the films from this site. (E)

The six DVD set shown below was originally compiled in videodisc format as a project of the American Association of Physics Teachers to collect a number of classic physics 8mm film loops and 16mm films into a single set using DVD format (originally videodisc format), to make them more accessible to physics teachers, most specifically for middle schools and high schools; the commercial advertising material suggests that they are for grade 7 and above. The original films contain a large number of interesting and very well done demonstrations and laboratory experiments, the best of which were excised from the original films, given new narrations, and included with slides and other materials in the final DVD product. The original videodisc set came with a printed “Directory with Bar Codes,” a very detailed descriptive manual that could be used to find any particular video segment of interest and have the videodisc player go immediately to that segment when the bar code is scanned (if you have one of the players with the bar code feature). It appears that the first (Part A and Part B) and third (Part E and Part F) of the videodiscs are still available at this time, but all six of the Parts (A through F) are available in the DVD format. Each DVD comes with a CD-ROM manual containing lesson plans, activities, and reference materials. I prefer the original, complete movies, over these segments, and appreciate the comments given by the original scientists who appeared in the movies. Although some of the material is potentially useful at lower levels, I find the sum product a bit disappointing for use in the college/university setting. My hope is that more of these classic films will be converted to DVD and re-issued in the original version, even though they may seem “quaint” by today’s standards.

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