Mechanics Learning Activities
Avantor offers a complete catalogue of instruments and tools useful for demonstrating key, basic concepts of physics that are applicable to everyday life both in and out of the laboratory. Demonstrate core ideas such as acceleration down a plane, friction, potential and kinetic energy, electrical conductivity, magnetic fields, wavelengths and velocity of sound, and more. Durable educational materials are designed for heavy use with consistent levels of handling, and all models are easy to use.
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Equilibrium Tubes
A set of four borosilicate glass tubes of different shapes connected together to illustrate that liquids will stand at the same level.
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Suction and Pressure Fan with Venturi Tube
Students measure pressure with a precision manometer.
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Essential Physics Demo: Venturi Tube
Investigate the relationship between the speed of a fluid and its pressure
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Comparative Free Fall Tubes
Demonstrate the free-fall motion of objects in atmospheric pressure and vacuum conditions.
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Kinetic Theory Model
Study the motion and behavior of gas molecules with this intriguing demonstration. An electric motor, running at 4 to 12 V DC, vibrates a small platform inside a transparent tube. This platform then violently vibrates the many small stainless steel balls inside the tube.
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Ballistic Car with Remote
This Ballistics Cart demonstrates the independence of vertical and horizontal motions.
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Guinea and Feather Apparatus
Compare the falling rate of a feather and a guinea (coin) with air resistance and in a vacuum.
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Capillarity Apparatus
The Capillarity Apparatus is intriguing demonstration of molecular attraction.
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Fire Piston Demonstration Apparatus
Dramatically Demonstrate that Temperature Increases with Pressure
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Kinetic Theory and Specific Heat of Gases
Students determine the adiabatic coefficient of air.