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Mechanics
Optics
Heat & Thermodynamics
Fluids & Surface tension
Electricity & Magnetism
Wave motion
Electrostatics
- El-1 Charging by Induction
- El-2 The Electrophorous - Charging by Induction
- El-3 Repulsion of Like Charges
- El-4 The Capacitor
- El-5 Visualisation of Electric Field Lines
- El-6 Biot's Apparatus
- El-7 Kelvin Water Dropper Induction Device
- El-8 Van de Graaff Generator (Lighting a Fluorescent Tube)
- El-9 Electrostatic Voltmeter
- El-10 Electric Pinwheel
- El-11 Franklin's Bell (Lightning Warning Device)
- El-12 Cottrell Smoke Precipitator
- El-13 Faraday's Cage
- El-14 Saint Elmo's Fire
- El-15 Whimshurst Machine
- El-16 Piezoelectric static electricity generator
Modern
- Na-1 Nuclear Chain Reaction
- Na-2 Measurement of the Muon Lifetime
- Na-3 Muon Telescope
- Na-4 Rutherford Scattering
- Na-5 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Na-6 The Zeeman Effect
- Na-7 X ray tubes
- Na-8 Band Gap Energy
- Na-9 Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling
- Na-10 Bragg Diffraction
- Na-11 Models of Atomic Structure
- Na-12 Black Body Hole
- Na-13 Pasco Blackbody apparatus.
- Na-14 Photoelectric effect
Astronomy/Astrophysics
- Aa-1 Earthshine demonstration
- Aa-2 Gravitational lensing
Safety
Acknowledgements

Physics Museum

Heat Engines

Hd-1 The Rubber Band Heat Engine

Published: Monday 13 March 2006

To demonstrate that rubber contracts on heating and to illustrate this with a simple rubber band heat engine.

Hd-2 The Fire Syringe

Published: Monday 13 March 2006

To demonstrate the generation of heat during compression of air.