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PhotoGIF's can be used to animate DIRECTLY ONLINE. Study the animation below: would you believe that it is possible for a 3 Kg and a 1 Kg object to move toward each other at the same magnitude in velocity (2 m/s) such that the 3 Kg object is stopped "dead" in its path upon COLLISION? The direction of the 1 Kg object is REVERSED and the magnitude of its velocity is DOUBLED. Click here for the solution.
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Thank you for visiting this web page: here's FREEWARE which can be downloaded at any time...
  1. 1.8 MB of QuickTime movies can be downloaded while visiting the menu below -- minimum requirements: a color Macintosh computer with 8 MB RAM. Your Movie Player software should be set on 'LOOP'
  2. 5.4 MB of color HyperCard stacks can be downloaded while visiting the menu below -- minimum requirements: Stuffit Expander and a color Macintosh computer with 8 MB RAM.
  3. 2 MB of QuickBASIC programs can be downloaded in ONE folder as ready to run programs - minimum requirements: Stuffit Expander and a Mac Plus with 4MB RAM (for the B+W programs) or a color Mac with 8 MB RAM (for the large screen color programs). For more information about Microsoft BASIC: Welcome To Microsoft

CONTENTS

Each 'SIR' item below is a separate web page with an IMAGE and a DESCRIPTION. Some SIR items contain FREEWARE as HyperCard Stacks, and QuickTime Movies, too. SIR items marked with QBASIC contain FREEWARE in the folder described in #3, ABOVE.

Volume I -- SIR's as Multi-Media Examples Simulating Wave Motion

  1. Wave Motion -- HyperCard Stacks + QT Movies (the complete HyperCard Stack)
  2. Wave Motion -- QuickTime Movies ONLY
  3. Doppler Effect -- Simulating Wave Motion (QT Movie + QBASIC)
  4. Analyzing the Spectrum of a Doppler Effect using SoundEdit Pro
      *NEW* 3.5 GigaBytes in 20 MPEG movies of a steam train...some with the Doppler Effect...requires a FAST Internet connection.
  5. Flat Mirror -- Simulating Wave Motion (QT Movie)
  6. Concave Mirror -- Simulating Wave Motion (2 QT Movies + QBASIC)
  7. Refraction -- Parallel Edges -- Simulating Wave Motion (2QT Movies + QBASIC)
  8. Convex Lens -- Simulating Wave Motion (QT Movie)
  9. Concave Lens -- Simulating Wave Motion (QT Movie)
  10. Diffraction -- Red v. Blue Wavelengths (2 QT Movies + QBASIC)
  11. Diffraction -- Temperature of Light Sources
  12. Diffraction -- Composition of Light Sources
  13. Interference -- Young's Experiment -- Simulating Wave Motion (QT Movie + QBASIC)
  14. Resonance Tube Apparatus -- Simulating Wave Motion
  15. Vibrato Effect -- Simulating Superposition in Wave Motion (QT Movie + QBASIC)
Volume II -- SIR's as Mini-Lab. Manuals Created with HyperCard Stacks or Created with HTML as Online Lessons
  1. Collisions in 2D Lab. using IP Physics Movie (HyperCard Stack)
      The above link includes a LARGE screen, ANIMATED PhotoGIF.
  2. Reflection -- Plane Mirror Drawing Lab. (HyperCard Stack)
      El Espejo Plano en Espanol (Bilingual Version Online)
      Plane Mirror: Online Lesson (Can be downloaded and used offline)
  3. Reflection -- Concave Mirror Drawing Lab. (HyperCard Stack)
      El Espejo Concavo en Espanol (Bilingual Version Online)
      Concave Mirror: Online Lesson (Can be downloaded and used offline)
  4. Refraction -- Parallel Edges Drawing Lab. (HyperCard Stack)
      Refraction -- Parallel Edges Drawing Lab.: Online Lesson (Can be downloaded and used offline)
  5. Refraction -- Convex Lens Drawing Lab. (HyperCard Stack)
      Refraction -- Convex Lens Drawing Lab.: Online Lesson (Can be downloaded and used offline)
  6. D.C. Circuits Lab. (HyperCard Stack)
  7. D.C. Circuits Lab. (Online Laboratory Lessons -- requires a Web Browser which can display IFRAMES and this FREEWARE requires the monitor's resolution be set at 1024 x 768 resolution.)
  8. Sample Card -- Constructing a Homemade VOM
  9. Sample Card -- Improving the Measurements of the Homemade VOM
Volume III -- SIR's as Astronomy Enhanced with a Camera and/or a Computer
  1. North Circumpolar Motion of the Stars All Night Long (QT Movie)
  2. Amateur Astronomy -- Total Lunar Eclipse
  3. Amateur Astronomy -- Total Lunar Eclipse -- Relative Sizes of the Earth and the Moon
  4. Evening Stars (35 mm Photo): Mercury and Venus
  5. Evening Stars (Digital Photo): the Five Naked-eye Planets
  6. Planetarium Simulations (QT Movie)
  7. Comet Hale-Bopp: four photos, different lenses (16mm, 28mm, 55mm, 135mm) (208K, 220K, 192K, 184K)
Volume IV -- SIR's as Multi-Media Enhanced with QuickTime Movies
  1. Creating QT Movies from PICT files (QT Movie)
  2. Adding Audio to QT Movies (QT Movie)
Volume V -- SIR's as Animations, Interfacing, etc.
  1. Creating Animations with QuickBASIC (QT Movie + QBASIC)
  2. Virtual Instruments: Interfacing Experiments with LabVIEW 2 on a Mac SE
  3. Timing a Stroboscope with an Oscilloscope
Volume VI -- SIR's as Demonstration Experiments in Wave Motion.
  1. A Suspended Wave Motion Apparatus: a Plastic Slinky Linked to a Metal Slinky
  2. Wavelength Measurement: with Microphones, an Oscilloscope, and Lissajous Patterns

Volume VII -- SIR's as Optical Phenomena in Nature.
  1. An Example of Reflection: Two mirrors at 90 degrees (reversed VIRTUAL images?)
  2. An Example of Refraction: The Water Strider's Shadow
  3. An Example of Interference: The Water Strider's Shadow

Volume VIII -- SIR's as QuickTime Movies Available to Download from this Webpage.
  1. This link contains a complete list of QuickTime Movies that can be downloaded from this webpage.

Volume IX -- SIR's as Digital Photographs of over 100 Michigan Wildflowers.
  1. Michigan Wildflowers 1999 in full color with common and Latin names
  2. Michigan Wildflowers 2000 in full color with common and Latin names

Volume X -- SIR's as Time Lapse Photography with DigiSnap 2000.
  1. A Time Lapse Movie made from 209 images of an Asian orchid blooming.
  2. A Time Lapse Movie made from 177 images of a red Hibiscus blooming.
  3. 2 Time Lapse Movies made from 1012 images of a Cattalya orchid blooming.


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Revised August 17, 2004
Published by the...
Physics and Chemistry Departments
Carson City-Crystal High School
Carson City, Michigan 48811
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