2096 Air-bearings table for the study of molecular movements

This device exploits the same principle of the air-bearing track. In comparison with the old models, this kind of
table (35x35cm) features the following improvements:

– greatest visibility; since the table’s plane is transparent , it can be placed on an overhead projector
– the collision of the mobile bodies isn’t mechanical, but magnetic; therefore the energy losses are almost void.

50 experiments

Because of the above-mentioned reasons, this model of air-bearing table is a truthful “window on the microcosm”;
It enables you to reproduce a great number of phenomena linked to the following physics processes:

• Matter’s molecular structure
• Changes of state
• Gases’ kinetic theory
• Statistics aspects
• Molecular energy and temperature
• Molecular diffusion
• Distribution of density
• Brownian motion
• Thermal conductivity of solids
• Electric conductivity of metals
• Electric conductivity of semi-conductors
• Rutherford’s atomic model