Super B Science Presents
PVC PhysicsAka John R. Banks [email protected] Everbrushstrokes.blogspot.com
Agenda
• Greeting • Bowling Ball Relay• First and Second Right Hand Rule• Spectroscope• Pin Hole Camera• Making Music
Bowling Ball Relay
• Only use the mallet to hit the ball• Hitting an obstacle, wall or person with the
ball requires going back to the start• First team completing the circuit wins• Judges decision final
Challenges
How can you tap a bowling ball with a mallet to:• 1. make it go faster and faster• 2. make it go fast and then STOP• 3. make it go slower and slower• 4. make it go at a steady speed• 5. make it go in an (almost) perfect circle
Spectroscope
Pinhole Camera
http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/whatis.html
First Right Hand Rule
Parallel Wires
Third Right Hand Rule
Making Music
• Velocity of sound equals frequency times 4L (lambda)
• Speed of sound equals 331.5 plus (.6 times degrees Celsius)
Works Cited
• http://odetie.pbworks.com/f/PalmPipesLesson.pdf
• http://www.didjshop.com/physicsDidj.html
• http://www.euhou.net/index.php/exercises-mainmenu-13/classroom-experiments-and-activities-mainmenu-186/211-palm-pipe-music
• http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~hck/data/wer1nc/files/PalmPipes.pdf