Winners of the 1999 AAPT Apparatus Contest
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, August 4, 1999
Advanced Laboratory / Lecture Demonstration Category
First prize ($1000) P. J. Ouseph, Walking a Charged Pith Ball Perpendicular To an Electric Field
Second prize ($600) Eugene Mosca, Kinetic-Friction Demo
Third prize ($200) Bill Franklin, Fan Cart With Sails for Forward, Reverse, and No Motion
Low-Cost Category (Awards are $100 each)
Bill Franklin, Cheapskate Elastic/Inelastic Collision Demonstrator
Bill Franklin, Rotating Sail Magnus Effect Demonstrator
Vacek Miglus, Low Cost Paramagnetism Apparatus
Damon McCausland, Current-carrying Loop in a Magnetic Field