Palm-sized plastic container marked "rotating platform parts".

Box of Spare Parts for Wooden Rotating Platform

Item 224
Demo use only Good - Normal Wear

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9CC100 - Mechanical Components
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Demo use only This equipment supports lecture demonstrations and cannot be reserved directly — it is assigned automatically as part of a demonstration. To use it, request a demo that includes it.

Used in demonstrations

Two bicycle wheels on a green bench — one with black mag-style spokes and cylindrical axle handle, one with traditional wire spokes and extended axle
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Bicycle Wheels

Demonstrates angular momentum conservation, gyroscopic precession, and resistance to axis reorientation. Students observe how angular momentum transfers between a spinning wheel and a person on a rotating platform, making the …
Bismuth bar suspended from thread, oriented perpendicular to a cylindrical magnet mounted in a wooden V-block, with "Bismuth" label visible
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Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism

Demonstrates the opposite magnetic responses of paramagnetic and diamagnetic materials. Suspended tungsten (paramagnetic) aligns parallel to the magnet pole, while bismuth (diamagnetic) aligns perpendicular — showing that all materials respond …
Gray metal stool seated inside a wooden rotating turntable, with two gray dumbbells on the stool seat

Rotating Table

Demonstrates conservation of angular momentum. A person on a rotating platform changes speed by moving hand weights inward (faster) or outward (slower), showing the inverse relationship between moment of inertia …
Gray metal stool on a wooden rotating platform, with two blue-handled flashlights inserted through holes in the stool seat
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Rotating Table Pulsar

Models a pulsar's lighthouse effect using rotating flashlights. Students learn that pulsars emit continuously but appear to pulse because their beamed radiation sweeps past Earth's line of sight — a …