PIRA Physics Instructional Resource Association.

Affiliate of the AAPT. Members are mostly lecture demonstrators and lab support folks. Also one person departments, high school teachers and just about anyone who deals heavily with apparatus used for physics instruction. (Website Currently coordinated by Machele cable. Thanks!)

Search 39 Demonstration catalog sites for Lecture Demos Here!!!

Thanks to Michael Thomason University of Colorado

• Journals

1. The Physics Teacher
2. Physics Education

• University of Oregon Physics Demonstration Catalog
  • I would love to say it is the best...but it isn't
  • 50% of Demos at U of O
  • Can also go to Other Sites from here.

• Little Shop of Physics (Low Tech, Great Stuff)
  • Brian Jones Colorado State University
  • Science Outreach Program in Colorado Hands On!!
• University of Maryland (More High Tech)
  • Dick Berg Head Demo Guy
  • Photohgraphs of Demo Set-Ups
  • Listed References
  • Extensive List of Demos
• Other Lecture Demo Room Catalogs

Books:

• Why Toast Lands Jelly Side Down, Robert Ehrlich Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-02891-5
• Turning the World Inside Out, Robert Ehrlich, Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-691-02395-6
• Teaching Physics with Toys, ISBN 0-07-0644721-6
• Richard Manliffe Sutton: Demonstration Experiments in Physics
• 2nd Ed. Dick & Rae Physics Demo Notebook

Science Apparatus Distributors:

• Vernier Software
• Arbor Scientific
• Educational Innovations
• Supercircuits Infrared Video Cameras for $39.95!
• Pasco Scientific
• Frey Scientific
• GOOGLE SEARCHES!!!!

Other Demo Resources

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