Media Summary: MIT Physics Demo Driven Mechanical Oscillator A can of spray paint is attached to a spring oscillator. A roll of paper is run past the oscillating can. The result is a sine wave ... A stuffed monkey is suspended from a rod at one end of a lecture hall by an electromagnet. A golf ball gun aimed directly at the ...

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MIT Physics Demo Driven Mechanical Oscillator A can of spray paint is attached to a spring oscillator. A roll of paper is run past the oscillating can. The result is a sine wave ... A stuffed monkey is suspended from a rod at one end of a lecture hall by an electromagnet. A golf ball gun aimed directly at the ... A large solenoid is connected to DC power through a knife switch. When the switch is closed, the current builds up to ... Odd-shaped objects with their centers of mass marked by orange paint are thrown. While the objects appear to follow very wobbly ... A long length of wire is suspended horizontally between the poles of a magnetron magnet. When a large current from a 12V ...

Note the difference between object flying under bright lights vs. objects flying under black light with the center of mass painted ... Two identical metal balls are dropped from the same height using an electromagnetic release. One ball is dropped freely, while ...

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MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator
MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator
MIT Physics Demo    Driven Mechanical Oscillator
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MIT Physics Demo -- Spray Paint Oscillator
MIT Physics Demo -- Monkey and a Gun
MIT Physics Demo -- Back "emf" in a Large Solenoid
MIT Physics Demo -- Center of Mass Trajectory
MIT Physics Demo -- Jumping Wire
MIT Physics Demo: Center of Mass Trajectory
MIT Physics Demo -- Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy
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MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator

A mass on a spring is

MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo -- Driven Mechanical Oscillator

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MIT Physics Demo    Driven Mechanical Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo Driven Mechanical Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo Driven Mechanical Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo   Tuning Forks Resonance & Beat Frequency 720

MIT Physics Demo Tuning Forks Resonance & Beat Frequency 720

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MIT Physics Demo -- Spray Paint Oscillator

MIT Physics Demo -- Spray Paint Oscillator

A can of spray paint is attached to a spring oscillator. A roll of paper is run past the oscillating can. The result is a sine wave ...

MIT Physics Demo -- Monkey and a Gun

MIT Physics Demo -- Monkey and a Gun

A stuffed monkey is suspended from a rod at one end of a lecture hall by an electromagnet. A golf ball gun aimed directly at the ...

MIT Physics Demo -- Back "emf" in a Large Solenoid

MIT Physics Demo -- Back "emf" in a Large Solenoid

A large solenoid is connected to DC power through a knife switch. When the switch is closed, the current builds up to ...

MIT Physics Demo -- Center of Mass Trajectory

MIT Physics Demo -- Center of Mass Trajectory

Odd-shaped objects with their centers of mass marked by orange paint are thrown. While the objects appear to follow very wobbly ...

MIT Physics Demo -- Jumping Wire

MIT Physics Demo -- Jumping Wire

A long length of wire is suspended horizontally between the poles of a magnetron magnet. When a large current from a 12V ...

MIT Physics Demo: Center of Mass Trajectory

MIT Physics Demo: Center of Mass Trajectory

Note the difference between object flying under bright lights vs. objects flying under black light with the center of mass painted ...

MIT Physics Demo -- Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

MIT Physics Demo -- Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy

Two identical metal balls are dropped from the same height using an electromagnetic release. One ball is dropped freely, while ...