5597 Physics set for group exercises

Suitable for secondary schools.
110 performable experiments

MECHANICS
• Error theory
• Measurement of small distances using
calibrated instruments
• Law of the elastic lengthenings
• Forces
• Friction forces
• Equilibrium of the moments
• Center of gravity
• Levers
• Other simple machines
• The scale
• Ways of weighing
• Fluid statics
• Archimedes’ principle
• Applications of Archimedes’ principle
• Periodic motions

THERMOLOGY
• Error theory
• Bunsen burner and the thermometer
• Behaviour of solids when the temperature changes
• Behaviour of liquids when the temperature changes
• Behaviour of gases when the temperature changes
• Calorimetry/specific heat
• Fusion and solidification
• Vaporization
• Condensation and fractional distillation
• Endothermic and exothermic phenomena

OPTICS
• Error theory
• Dioptric projector
• Propagation and diffusion of light
• Reflection of the light
• Refraction of the light
• Refraction of the light through lenses
• Refraction of the light through a prism/dispersion
• Measurement of the focal length of a mirror and of a lens with spherometer
• Images given by mirrors
• Images given by lenses
• Optical instruments

ELECTROLOGY
• Error theory
• Simple electrostatic phenomena
• Electric souces
• Electric circuit and measuring instruments
• Use of the universal instrument
• Ohm’s laws
• The rehostat and the potentiometer
• The electric circuit with several charges in series
• The electric circuit with several charges in parallel
• Electric nets
• Some methods for measuring the electric resistance
• Resistance depending on temperature
• Thermal effect of the electric current
• Electric conduction into liquids/the electrolysis
• Simple magnetostatic phenomena
• The magnetic effect of electric current
• Electromagnetic induction
• The transformer