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New and revised experiments

New experiments

Only new experiments created in the last about three years are listed here.

New since 06/26
Mechanical resistance model
New since 10/25
Battery train in coil
New since 10/25
Fabry-Pérot interferometer
New since 10/25
Friction generates heat
New since 10/25
Viscosities of various liquids
New since 07/25
Precession of a gyroscope
New since 06/25
Blowing out a candle
New since 06/25
Bernoulli effect with balloons
New since 05/25
Force of a holding solenoid
New since 05/25
Spontaneous synchronization with metronomes
New since 05/25
Braked fall due to conservation of angular momentum
New since 05/25
Resonance of tuning forks with table tennis ball
New since 03/25
Charging and discharging of C with analog meter
New since 03/25
Standing ultrasonic waves with Schlieren Optics
New since 02/25
Pendulum Wave
New since 02/25
Soliton
New since 10/24
Principle of linear and of angular momentum
New since 07/24
Action = reaction with throw
New since 07/24
Cheesecake moulds on Van de Graaff generator
New since 07/24
Kapitza pendulum
New since 07/24
Quantum dots
New since 07/24
Conductivity of doped semiconductors
New since 07/24
Maxwell wheel
New since 07/24
Maxwell wheel on scale
New since 07/24
Tautochrone curve
New since 03/24
Pendulum above electromagnet
New since 10/23
Spring extension as a function of the spring constant
New since 10/23
Period of oscillation as a function of the spring constant
New since 09/23
Triple pendulum
New since 08/23
Homogeneity of the magnetic field of a coil
New since 08/23
Microgravity during throw
New since 06/23
Copy of the Swiss standard metre
New since 06/23
Jumping candle
New since 06/23
Fresnel lens from a lighthouse
New since 06/23
Convection with Schlieren Optics
New since 06/23
Visualisation of density with Schlieren Optics
New since 06/23
Supersonic jet with compressed air – with Schlieren Optics

Revised experiments

Only experiments with major content-related or technical revisions made over about the past three years are listened here.

Revised since 02/26
Coupled pendulums – 7 pendulums
Revised since 11/25
Total reflection with laser
Revised since 09/25
Freezer thermometer
Revised since 07/25
Reversibility in laminar flow
Revised since 04/25
Planck constant
Revised since 04/25
Grating image through slit as per Abbe – with laser
Revised since 03/25
Polarisation with 2.8-cm waves
Revised since 03/25
2.8-cm standing waves
Revised since 03/25
Michelson interferometer with 2.8-cm waves
Revised since 03/25
Refraction of 2.8-cm waves on a prism
Revised since 03/25
2.8-cm waves + dipole
Revised since 03/25
Absorption of 2.8‑cm waves in H2O
Revised since 03/25
Optical activity with microwaves
Revised since 12/24
Ice cracks cast iron ball
Revised since 12/24
Bicycle pump (heating by compression)
Revised since 11/24
Statics of a ladder
Revised since 11/24
Doppler effect with 3-cm waves
Revised since 09/24
Thermocouple
Revised since 07/24
Hot-air/Stirling engine: made of beverage cans
Revised since 07/24
Model of an electron gas
Revised since 05/24
Duo magnet
Revised since 04/24
Refraction of sound waves
Revised since 03/24
Balls in urn – probability
Revised since 03/24
Ellipse of inertia
Revised since 03/24
Disc and dumbbell on torsion pendulum
Revised since 09/23
Total reflection