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A Review Article: Physics Demonstrations with Almost Nothing: Over Thirty Examples with a Glass of Water

Ed van den Berg

 

Abstract

Suppose you are suddenly assigned to a bare classroom instead of your nicely equipped physics room, or perhaps your school does not have that well equipped room. What can you do to still have a clear and exciting lesson? This article presents a collection of small and quick demonstrations and visualizations for secondary education, which require no equipment beyond what is present in a typical lecture room or bare classroom (chalk, chairs, students, books, paper, student bags and typical contents). The nature of the demos is varied, some are to verify an explanation, but most are to illustrate, visualize, or simulate physics phenomena and concepts. Over 200 such demo’s with almost zero equipment are now available from our website.