Spray Bottle with Ethanol

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9DD100 - Chemicals & Fluids

Demo use only

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Spray Bottle with Ethanol
G2B20A - Demo West (Duane Physics)
Good - Normal Wear Demo use only

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Light blue PVC cannon tube standing upright on a wooden base with a small ignition hole near the bottom, basketball sitting alongside on the lecture hall floor
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Basketball Cannon

Ethanol vapor combustion inside a PVC cannon launches a basketball, dramatically demonstrating chemical-to-kinetic energy conversion. Students trace the energy transformation chain and discover that only a tiny fraction of the …
Light blue PVC cannon tube with basketball seated in top, mounted on black physicist's skateboard, with green ethanol spray bottle, propane torch, and white Trek bicycle helmet
Safety

Basketball Cannon Cart

A basketball fired vertically from a moving cart lands back in the cannon, demonstrating that projectile trajectory depends on the observer's reference frame. From the cart's frame the ball goes …

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