Apparatus Competition

2006 Summer Meeting of the

American Association of Physics Teachers

Syracuse, NY

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Awards:

1^st Place ($1000)
Bend It Like Bernoulli
Gabe Alba and Hsu-Chang Lu
Rutgers University

2^nd Place ($600)
A Simple Apparatus to Demonstrate the Energy Stored in a Capacitor
A. Tomasch, D. Gerdes, R. Armen, and M. Love
The University of Michigan

3^rd  Place ($200)
A Simple and Inexpensive Apparatus to Demonstrate the Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire Segment (low cost)
A. Tomasch, D. Gerdes, and M. Love
The University of Michigan

Low Cost Winners ($100)
Bend It Like Bernoulli
Gabe Alba and Hsu-Chang Lu
Rutgers University

PC Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyzer (low cost)
Hsu-Chang Lu
Rutgers University

Surface Gravity Waves: Resonance in a Fish Tank (low cost)
John J. Lynch
Wheeling Jesuit University

Soap Bubble Thin Film Viewer
Christian A. Murphy
Boston University

Moments of Inertia – What’s inside a baseball? (low cost)
Harriet Slogoff and Bob Smith
University of Pennsylvania

Light Ray Focusing Demonstrator (low cost)
John W. Zwart
Dordt College

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All Entries:

Bend It Like Bernoulli (low cost)
Gabe Alba and Hsu-Chang Lu
Rutgers University

Follow The Bouncing Ball
Clifford Bettis
University of Nebraska

Force Between Two Current Carrying Wires Demonstrator (low cost)
Zbigniew Roman Fracz
Oakland Community College

An Invisible Force (low cost)
Richard Heckathorn
Retired

Glass Breaker / Resonance Box (low cost)
David Kardelis
College of Eastern Utah

PC Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyzer (low cost)
Hsu-Chang Lu
Rutgers University

The Conical Pendulum with a Lego Mindstrorms® Robotics Invention System Stepper
John J. Lynch
Wheeling Jesuit University

Surface Gravity Waves: Resonance in a Fish Tank (low cost)
John J. Lynch
Wheeling Jesuit University

Soap Bubble Thin Film Viewer
Christian A. Murphy
Boston University

Lenz’s Law Demonstration
P.J. Ouseph
University of Louisville

Atomic Force Microscope
Maxim Shusteff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moments of Inertia – What’s inside a baseball? (low cost)
Harriet Slogoff and Bob Smith
University of Pennsylvania

Apparatus for Illustrating Dynamical Heat Flow in a Rod
Bruce Thompson
Ithaca College

A Simple Apparatus to Demonstrate the Energy Stored in a Capacitor
A. Tomasch, D. Gerdes, R. Armen, and M. Love
The University of Michigan

A Simple and Inexpensive Apparatus to Demonstrate the Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire Segment (low cost)
A. Tomasch, D. Gerdes, and M. Love
The University of Michigan

A Simple and Inexpensive Apparatus to Demonstrate the Magnetic Field Produced by a Current-Carrying Wire Segment (low cost)
A. Tomasch, D. Gerdes, and M. Love
The University of Michigan

Light Ray Focusing Demonstrator (low cost)
John W. Zwart
Dordt College