High School Physics - Mechanics

DIY activities to know more about concepts in Mechanics

Laws of Motion

1. Forces in equilibrium
2. Components of Force
3. Quantify forces in interaction
4. Balloon Boat
5. Simple Bottle Cart
6. Gravity Defying wheel
7. Calculate Speed of moving object with mobile app
8. Build balloon car
9. Anti Gravity Pipe
10. Magic with Shampoo Sachet
11. Steam Powered Raft
12. Straw sprinkler
13. CD Top
14. Broomstick Car
15. Rubber band Car
16. Cap Copter
17. Air store with balloons
18. Bernoulli seed blower
19. Bottle cap propeller
20. Levitating Pencil
21. Straw Raft with toothpaste
22. Pressure Diver
23. Pencil Spinner
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Circular Motion

1. Simple Centrifuge

Universal Gravitation

1. Kepler - Visualizing equal areas

Fluid Mechanics

1. Force, Pressure with everyday things
2. Drinking Bird Toy
3. Pneumatic Car Jack
4. Pressure concepts with Manometer
5. Coil pump
6. Archimedes Screw
7. Talking coin

Static Equilibrium

1. Falling containers
2. Balance PVC Pipe
3. CG Toy with rubber soles
4. Timer with everyday things
5. Weighing Scale with Ruler
6. Water clock to measure time

Simple Machines

1. Screw - working model
2. Pulley with everyday things
3. Pulley Ratio

Misc

1. Tilt switch
2. Density with everyday things
3. Syringe air fan
4. Smoking Bottle
5. Colorful Holi
6. Fun with Density
7. Harmonic Motion
8. Water level and Shapes
9. Ball bearing with marbles
10. Paper fibers unfold the mystery
11. Understand Mechanical advantage
12. Straw Diver
13. Separate Egg Yolks
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Oscillation and Mechanical Waves

Oscillation 

1. Sine Function
2. Radians for angle measurement
3. Angular Velocity
4. Period , Frequency and Amplitude
5. Uniform Circular Motion and Simple Harmonic Motion
6. Projection of Uniform Circular Motion
7. What is Phase ?
8. Angular Frequency
9. Relation between angular and linear velocity

Waves

1. Ripples in water

Sound

1. How Straw whistle works

Automata

1.  Cardboard automata for beginners
2.  Automata workshop VI18
3.  Flagman with Automata
4. Automata with everyday things

Activities

1. My cycle and Simple Machines

Simulations

1. Kinematics - Simulation
2. Simulation for High school Mechanics

Challenges

1. Guess pressure with Manometer
2. Two balls different size 
3. Which balls goes up first ?
4. Guess contents of the ball 
5. Will balloon burst ?
6. Move the marble up..
7. How balls of different mass will fall ?
8. Calculate rotational speed ...

Earlier Work

1. Tracing Simple Harmonic Motion - version 1
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