Please note: this site is a work in progress. I have approximately 200 demos documented so far -- there are probably twice that many still to go. If you don't see something please ask me as we may very well have it.
There are multiple ways to use this site. You can click through the menus and lists to find a demo, or you can use the search function to find anything by keyword. Search will pull info from the descriptions as well as from the titles of each demo.
If you search for a course number, such as P13, it will list all the demos that are often used in that course. (Note that to search for astronomy courses use e.g. Astr1, rather than just A1.) If you want to find demos about a general topic it's probably best to use the menus. For instance, for two dimensional motion look under Mechanics>Motion in Two Dimensions.
For all demos, one can look up the location of the apparatus (in rooms 108, 109, and 110) by using the inventory spreadsheet. Or, you can use the spreadsheet to find specific items that you may want rather than developed demos. Again, the search function is your friend!
To request a demo: Please give plenty of lead time -- ideally 48 hours, with 24 hours (of business days) as a minimum. I generally try to have all the Monday demos prepped before the end of the day on Friday.
The catalog system being used is the PIRA demo classification system. In this spreadsheet it lists published articles about each demo. It is unique enough that if you do an internet search on a catalog number, it will likely come up with hits of demo pages at different colleges and universities that use that particular demo. This is a good starting point to get additional info about any demo, or to find demos that we don't yet have but you'd like us to create.
Special thanks to Ralph Gibson, who created this collection and who was, and continues to be, invaluable in assisting me in learning how everything works; Ralph also appears in a number of the videos explaining how the demos work. Thanks also to Yorke Brown, who appears in many of the videos on this site.
