Table of contents

7. Table of contents#

Introduction

  1. About this book

  2. Preface

  3. Preface from the editor

  4. About the authors

  5. NVON

  6. Python

  7. Table of contents

Pedagogy

  1. Introduction

  2. Nature of Science

  3. Argumentation

  4. Thinking-Back-and-Forth

  5. Predict Explain Observe Explain

Demos on NOS

  1. The returning can

  2. Introducing a particle model to explain the coloring of eggs

  3. Crookes’ radiometer

  4. Cylinder Puzzle

  5. Magic, trick or physics?

  6. Roll and Stop

  7. Mysterious fountain

  8. Magic Memory Balls

Demos on Scientific Inquiry

  1. Can it be air?

  2. Does Van de Graaff not like a shower?

  3. Why does the water rise?

  4. Boyle’s law

  5. Investigating a devastating Flame

  6. A battle between two bottles

  7. Flamecooler

  8. Trapped candles

  9. Speed of light in a liquid

  10. Powerful Balloon

  11. Determination of g

  12. On a roll

Demos for conceptual development

Wave, optics, quantum

  1. Light in darkness

  2. Reflection

  3. Making Einstein young again

  4. Surprising infra-red investigations

  5. LEDs and photons

  6. Writing with a laser using phosphorescence

  7. Shadow of a flame 1

  8. Shadow of a flame 2

  9. Standing wave with an electric toothbrush

  10. Physics of the panflute

  11. Ranking the ‘stars’

  12. Singing rod

  13. Bouncing ball in a tube

  14. Fluorescent olive oil

  15. Hot spots in the microwave

  16. Strange shadows

  17. Cold radiation

  18. Captured laser beam

Electricity Magnetism

  1. Merry-go-around of floating candles

  2. Blowing out a light bulb

  3. Measuring charge

  4. Alternating voltage across a lamp

  5. Lorentz force on charged particles

  6. Slow bulbs

  7. Induction tubes

  8. High voltage

Mechanics

  1. Newton’s First Law

  2. Falling faster than g

  3. Rotational inertia

  4. Tug-of-War

  5. Stick-slip motion

  6. Self-propelling car

  7. Does the magnet challenge gravity?

  8. Who dares?

  9. Dropping balls and bottles

  10. Feeling physics with your own body!

  11. Upward and downward force

  12. Twice as much isn’t twice as big

  13. Floating pearls

  14. Tension in a pendulum

  15. Rotating balloon

  16. Colliding with Newton’s third law

  17. Up and down the hill

  18. Rotating cubes

Thermodynamics

  1. Making a perfect cappuccino

  2. Playing with density

  3. Ocean currents

  4. Rich boiling phenomena

  5. Boiling by cooling

  6. Miscommunicating vessels

  7. Cool cans

  8. Condensation heat in infrared

  9. Cooling metal spheres

  10. Black and white

Else

  1. Extinguishing without water

  2. Air is not nothing: weighing air

  3. Two springs, series or parallel?

  4. Force and motion with a bowling ball

  5. Upward dripping

  6. Curve ball

  7. Colliding balls

  8. A balloon that can do everything

  9. Transit of a planet

  10. A light bulb as hot as the sun?

  11. DNA

  12. Gauss’ rifle

  13. Falling spring

  14. Radioactive decay - A simulation

Demos for special occasions

  1. Spectacular spectrum

  2. Making a slanting tower stacking blocks

  3. Magic with pendulums

  4. Falling candle

  5. Boiling without heating in a vacuum

  6. Stick on wine glass

  7. Cloud formation

  8. Optics with LEDs

  9. Spinning circles in a wine glass

  10. Pulling a spool

  11. Implosion

References

Literature