Pictures of Some Apparatus at the 1999 Apparatus Competition

(Award-winning apparatus is shown first)


Advanced Lab / Lecture Demo Category

1st prize - Walking a pith ball


2nd prize Kinetic Friction Demo


3rd prize Fan Carts



Low Cost Category

Magnus Effect Demonstrator


Cheapskate Elastic/Inelastic Collision Demonstrator


Low-Cost Paramagnetism Apparatus


Coil in a Magnetic Field




Other apparatus

Free Rotation Demonstrator


Mouse XY plotter


Holograms with Laser Pointer


Lock-in Detector


Velocity Amplifier


Conservation of Energy and Rotational Inertia


Threee Bulbs in Series and Parallel


Optics Tank