To make a demonstration request for your class, please email lectdemo@phys.washington.edu.
The lecture demonstration catalog has been organized to follow the Physics Instructional Resource Association (PIRA) Demonstration Classification Scheme (DCS, Excel file).
For example, the Guinea and Feather (1C20.10) is listed as:
| 1 | Area | Mechanics |
| C | Topic | Motion in One Dimension |
| 20 | Concept | Uniform Acceleration |
| .10 | Specific Demonstration | Guinea and Feather |
Not every demonstration has an official DCS entry, in which case it will be listed in the most logical section or where it is most commonly used.
The University of Maryland Physics Question of the Week Archive has many great questions based on their demonstration collection. We have many similar demonstrations and questions could easily be adapted to match our collection.
UMD has another more recent list of demo questions.
1) Richard Manliffe Sutton, Demonstration Experiments in Physics. Available as a .PDF from PIRA and the Internet Archive (archive.org).
2) Julius Sumner Miller, Demonstrations in Physics and Physics Fun and Demonstrations.
3) Harry F. Meiners, Physics Demonstration Experiments.
4) G.D. Freier and F.J. Anderson, A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
5) Julien Clinton Sprott (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics.
More to be listed...
The Teaching Apparatus List (TAP-L) is an active discussion list for lecture demonstration and teaching lab personnel.
The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations was filmed using many of our actual demonstrations. We prefer to perform demos live as much as possible, but will use videos in place of demonstrations that are dangerous, use mercury, or if the actual apparatus is damaged or unavailable.