Optika rotating platform allows students not only to verify the relations between the fundamental quantities which characterize rotational motion, but also to perform experiments on an important topic: inertial and non-inertial systems.
What is seen by an observer on an inertial system is different from what is seen by an observer on a non-inertial system. Includes string, ruler, wooden sphere with hole, wooden sphere with hook and chuck.
In this way students are allowed to understand which is the origin and which are the results of fictitious forces as the centrifugal force and Coriolis force.
Thanks to this platform, you are able to study a lot of fundamental topics as the effects of Coriolis force on solids and liquids and understand why a mathematical instrument as the cross product was so important.
Experiments include:
- Centripetal force
- Lack of centripetal force: what happens?
- Centrifugal forces in equilibrium
- How to use centrifugal force to separate a mixture
- How to use centrifugal force to dry linen
- Centrifugal force and Earth shape
- Watt’s regulator
- White light: Newton’s Disk
- Conical pendulum
- Properties of conical pendulum
- How to verify centripetal and centrifugal forces formula
- Another fictitious force: Coriolis force
- Coriolis force acting on a water jet
- Coriolis force acting on a pendulum
- Observer in a non-inertial system
- When Coriolis force is zero
- Foucault’s pendulum
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