Gas Laws

• Marshmallow and/or whipped cream vs Vacuum Desiccator
• Vibrating ball bearing / OHPr device (Physics Demo Lab)
• Helium filled balloon vs liquid nitrogen
• "John's Law" apparatus (courtesy Prof. Art Campbell)
• dV/dP device
• dT/dV(&P) device

Quantum Mechanics

• rope-a-dope (physics B+25+10)
• Prof. Pines' purple whirly thing (or Lonnie's green whirly thing)
• gas discharge tubes w/Tesla coil
• HeNe laser/slit
• drum head video
• violin bow vs. metal disk

Spectroscopy

• ref: Dr. Mark Kubinec -- HeNe laser, tuning fork (w/mirror), sweep audio amp, audio speaker

Catalysis

• MnO₂ catalyzed decomposition of H₂O₂
• turnip/rutabaga peroxidase catalyzed decomposition of H₂O₂
• Platinum catalyzed reaction of 2H₂+O₂

Density

Chromatography - paper

• assorted writing pens, large piece of chromatography paper, large tank, solvent (water, etc.)
• fan, cloth, assorted objects (foam balls, corks, hard balls)

Law of conservation of mass

Law of definite proportion

Law of multiple proportions

Limiting Reagent

• Bicarbonate + Acetic Acid

Stoichiometry

• stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric mixtures of H₂ and O₂ in balloons; explode, point out difference in sound

Precipitation reactions

• Pb(NO₃)₂ + K₂CrO₄ --> (see Shakhashiri vol. 1, p 286)

Acid-base reactions

• Precipitation and redissolution of Ca(OH)₂ by CO₂

• dry ice into cylinders of sl. basic, v.basic, and buffered solutions containing universal indicator

Oxidation-reduction reactions

• Silver Christmas tree

Gases

Enthalpy and calorimetry

Common Ion Effect

Big Game Titration

Hess's law

Kinetics

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