University of Melbourne demonstrations

Year: First Year, Second Year, Third Year
Type: Lecture, Video / Audio
Topic: Astronomy / Astrophysics, Electromagnetism, Mathematics, Mechanics, Optics / Waves, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermal Physics and Statistics
Attribution: The University of Melbourne
Date: Mar 2021
Summary: A series of pages including videos containing demonstrations for common physics topics.
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About this resource

Description

A series of videos containing demonstrations for mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, waves and oscillations, electricity and magnetism, astronomy, modern physics and fluid mechanics. This page is an internal reference for UMelb lecturers for sourcing demonstrations.

Length

A large number of very short video demonstrations of physics apparatus, indexed according to topic.

Pedagogical backing

Rationale

These resources are demonstrations of interesting physics phenomena; they were developed to be utilised within lectures.

How is the resource used

These videos are useful as a supplement / real world contextualisation for expository lecture content. Teachers may wish to use a predict-observe-explain methodology, where students are asked to predict the outcome of the demonstration before observing it.

Student evaluation

N/A

Authors

Steven Damen, University of Melbourne, sjdamen@unimelb.edu.au