13.6 kg Lead Weight

Three blue-painted lead blocks bolted in a stack with a steel handle.

Details

9AA200 - Lab Hardware

1 unit available to reserve

Instances

G2B20A - Demo West (Duane Physics)

Good - Normal Wear

Used in these demonstrations

PASCO cannon cart on an inclined black track with vertical launch barrel, spirit level below the track, lower end nesting into a clear plastic bin lined with green eggshell foam

Cannon Cart on Incline

A spring-loaded cart launches a ball vertically while rolling down an incline. The ball lands back in the cart's funnel, showing that both share the same gravitational acceleration component along …

Black medicine ball sitting on a small metal rolling cart (physicist's skateboard) with casters, next to a wooden meter stick on the floor

Skateboard and Medicine Ball

Demonstrates Newton's Third Law and momentum conservation through recoil. Kneeling on a rolling cart, throw medicine balls horizontally — the cart rolls backward. Throwing two balls approximately doubles the distance; …

Lecture bench with pulley clamps at each end, wheeled cart with stacked blue lead bricks in center, white ropes running from the cart and bricks over the pulleys

Tricky Tension Problem

A cart with lead bricks stays in equilibrium with 3 kg hanging from each side, but slides when 6 kg hangs from one side and the other rope is anchored. …

Person standing on the overhanging end of an 8-ft wooden plank on a lecture bench; medicine ball and blue safety-stop blocks visible at the far end, chalkboard behind

Walking the Plank

A person walks along a plank extending over the edge of a lecture bench, dramatically illustrating torque balance. Adding a counterweight (medicine ball or lead bricks) to the opposite end …

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