Rotating Platform for Outreach

• A+30+50

This is a platform that you can stand on while another person rotates you. The participants arms can then be brought in close to the chest and they will speed up or brought outward and they will slow down. Weights can be used to exacerbate the effect. This is mainly for outreach to the community; A+30+15 is superior for classroom demonstration. A bicycle wheel (A+30+60) can also be lent out so that you can impart momentum by handing it to a student then flipping it.

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A+30+65 Bike with one foot long trail A+30+70 Hoop thrown forward rolls backwards A+30+0 Minor's apparatus: Movable discs rotated by falling weight. A+30+5 Maxwell's wheel: Flywheel with axle, supported on strings or stand. A+30+10 Rotational inertia device: Sliding weights on rotating rod. A+30+15 Rotating chair with dumbbells or weighted bicycle wheel. A+30+20 Maxwell's top, has adjustable center of gravity. A+30+25 Large conical aluminum top. A+30+30 Gyroscopes; various. A+30+35 Sire's Polytrope. A+30+40 Film: "Conservation laws in zero G", sound, 14 min.. A+30+45 Large gyroscope in a suitcase. A+30+60 Spinning Bicycle Wheel Stays Upright. A+30+55 Falling coffee cup is arrested by friction