Rotating platform

The rotating platform allows students not only to check the relationships between the fundamental quantities that characterize rotational motion, but also to conduct experiments on an important subject: inertial and non-inertial systems.

What an observer sees on an inertial frame is different from what an observer sees on a non-inertial frame.

In this way, students are allowed to understand the origin and the results of fictitious forces such as centrifugal force and Coriolis force.

Thanks to this platform, you can study many fundamental subjects such as the effects of the Coriolis force on solids and liquids and understand why a mathematical instrument as a cross product was so important.

On what quantities does the centrifugal force depend? Let's do some experiments with the platform.

Feasible experiments:

1. Centripetal force

2. A fictitious force: centrifugal force

3. Lack of centripetal force: what happens?

4. Centrifugal forces in balance

5. How to use centrifugal force to separate a mixture?

6. How to use centrifugal force to dry clothes?

7. Centrifugal force and the shape of the Earth

8. Watt's governor

9. White light: Newton's disc

10. Conical pendulum

11. Properties of the conical pendulum

12. How to verify the formula of centripetal and centrifugal forces?

13. Another fictitious force: Coriolis force

14. Coriolis force acting on a water jet

15. Coriolis force acting on a pendulum

16. Observer in a non-inertial system

17. How to verify the Coriolis law through experiment?

18. When the Coriolis force is zero

1 rotating platform

1 power supply unit

1 rope

1 ruler

1 wooden sphere with hole

1 wooden sphere with hook

1 chuck

<bold>Included accessories:</bold>

Centrifugal force apparatus

Coaxial cylinders

Apparatus with inclined test tubes

Centrifuge

Apparatus with elastic rings

Watt regulator

Newton's disc

Bowl with dye

Conical pendulum

Coriolis force apparatus

Water jet apparatus

Simple pendulum

Waterfall apparatus