Super B Science Presents

PVC PhysicsAka John R. Banks jbks54@gmail.com 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