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• 0.4 M sulfuric acid
• 0.5 metre rule
• 100g slotted masses
• 12-volt battery or power supply
• 12 volt supply, i.e. LV power supply with high current smoothing unit
• 1.5 V cells, connected in series, 3
• 1.5-volt cells, new stock, 7 (see technical note)
• 1 kΩ resistor (0.5 W)
• 1-litre flask, strong
• 1-litre flask, strong, round bottom
• 200-watt carbon filament lamp (one per class)
• 20:1 transformers (e.g. RS 231-8145 Rapid electronics 88-0260), 2
• 20 cm length of 3.5 cm diameter glass tubing
• 240 V, 100 W bayonet cap or screw-fit lamp
• 25 W soldering iron or beaker of boiling water
• 2 cm metal sphere
• 30 cm piece of plastic waste pipe (10 cm diameter minimum, 20 cm better) with a notch about 4 cm x 2 cm cut in one end
• + 3D and - 3D ‘correcting’ lenses
• 4-litre flat-bottomed flask and lenses with powers + 10D, + 8D and + 5D, to make a model eye (see technical notes) OR round-bottomed flask standing on a cork ring
• 50 Ω resistor, approx value (see technical note)
• 60-degree isometric graph paper
• 60-degree prism
• 60-degree prism, large (preferably high dispersion)
• +7D cylindrical lens
• A4 paper, plain white, one sheet
• A beam of gamma or X-rays showing secondary electrons ejected
• Access to cuboidal samples of different metals and non metals, e.g. materials kit
• Access to lubricating oil
• Access to mixed crushed ice, cold water and hot water from a kettle
• Access to water and vegetable or olive oil
• Acetate rod
• Acetate rod or strip
• AC voltmeters, 2
• Additional forcemeter if measuring frictional force
• Additional plano-cylindrical lens +7 D for field lens
• Adhesive
• Adhesive tape
• Air blower
• Air or CO₂ puck
• Air table
• A large tray
• Alcohol in a bottle
• Alpha particles scattering analogue (plastic hill and ramp)
• Alpha particle tracks bent in a very strong magnetic field
• Alpha particle tracks including a collision with a helium nucleus
• Alpha particle tracks including a collision with a hydrogen nucleus
• Alpha particle tracks including a collision with a massive nucleus (e.g. nitrogen or oxygen)
• Alpha particle tracks showing their short range
• Alpha source, as pure as possible e.g. Pu-239, or Am-241 (which emits γη too)
• Alternative radioactive source for the diffusion cloud chamber
• Alum crystal, large
• Aluminium barrier, plane
• Aluminium barriers
• Aluminium calorimeter with holes for heater and thermometer (see discussion below)
• Aluminium container
• Aluminium container (e.g. disposable food container)
• Aluminium container or water bath
• Aluminium cooking foil, sheet of (OPTIONAL)
• Aluminium foil
• aluminium foil, 0.1mm thickness
• aluminium foil, 0.1 mm thickness, 5 cm X 5 cm
• Aluminium foil, thin
• Aluminium leaf, 1 sheet approx 5 cm square
• Aluminium leaf (not kitchen foil)
• Aluminium ring, large
• Aluminium rings
• Aluminium screen with 50 mm circle of holes
• Aluminium screen with 75 mm circle of holes
• Aluminium screen with circle of holes x 2
• Aluminium screen with one large hole (50 mm approx)
• Aluminium sheet
• Aluminium support (see Technical notes)
• Alum or copper sulfate
• Ammeter, 0-100 mA
• Ammeter, 0-1 A
• Ammeter, (0-1 A), AC
• Ammeter, (0-1 A), DC
• Ammeter (0 - 1 amp), DC
• Ammeter (0-1 amp), DC, preferably moving-coil
• Ammeter, 0-1 A OPTIONAL
• Ammeter, 0 - 5 A (a demonstration one would be good for this)
• Ammeter (0-5 amp)
• Ammeter, 0 to 1 A, DC
• Ammeter, 0 to 5 A, DC
• Ammeter, 100 mA, DC
• Ammeter, 1 A
• Ammeter (1 amp), DC
• Ammeter, 5 mA, DC
• Ammeter (a demonstration one would be good for this)
• Ammeter, DC, reading to at least 2 A
• Ammeter (optional)
• Ammeters, 0-100 mA, 2 (depending on the transistor)
• Ammeters (0-1 A), DC, 3
• Ammeters (0 - 1 A), DC, 6
• Ammeters (preferably 2.5-0-2.5 mA), 2
• Amplifier
• Amplifier and loudspeaker
• Aniline, bottle of
• Another mass, approx 25 g
• Anvil and beam
• Any other liquids that are safe to handle (OPTIONAL)
• Appropriate power supplies for lamps
• Aquadag (colloidal graphite in water)
• Aquadag (colloidal graphite), photographic opaque or Indian ink
• Aqueous ammonia '880'
• Armature
• Aspirator, 10 litre
• Aspirator (10 litres)
• Aspirator or large flask, 10 litres
• Assorted masses to balance
• Atom model
• Balance
• Balance, 5 kg
• Balance, able to measure or compare two 1-kg masses
• Balance, lever-arm or top-pan
• Balance (optional - to find mass of trolley)
• Balance to find mass of metal ball (or rubber bung)
• Balance with a sensitivity of at least 1 g
• Balance with a sensitivity of at least 1 g, possibly a lever-arm balance
• Ball bearing
• Ball bearing ball, steel
• Ball bearings
• Ball bearings (approximately 3 mm and 1.5 mm)
• Ball bearing, steel, large
• Ball, large (7.5 cm diameter approximately)
• Ball of Plasticine (250g)
• Balloon
• Balloon, either spherical or cylindrical in shape
• Balloons, 3
• Balloons, 3, small and preferably of different colours
• Balloons, 4
• Ball or other object to be photographed
• Ball, small (2.5 cm diameter approximately)
• Bare copper wire, 14 -18 SWG (the wire can be tinned), 20 cm lengths, 2
• Bare copper wire, 26 SWG (0.45 mm), 80 - 90 cm for each student in group
• Bare copper wire, 26 SWG (0.45 mm), new
• Bare copper wire, 32 SWG (0.28 mm), at least 1.5 m for each student
• Bar magnet
• Bar magnet (optional)
• Bar magnets, 3
• Barometer tube
• Barometer tubes with different diameters, 2 (see Technical note 1)
• Barriers
• Barriers, 2
• Barrier, semi-circular
• Barriers for creating aperture
• Barriers for creating aperture
• Barrier, short
• Barriers, large
• Barriers, small
• Barrier, straight
• Base
• Bath of water and detergent
• Bathroom scales
• Bathroom scales (1,200 N or 120 kg)
• Bathroom scales, calibrated in kg (or N)
• Bathroom scales (preferably calibrated in kg and not N)
• Batteries, 12 V, 2 (optional)
• Batteries, 12 V, 3
• Batteries, 1.5 V, 4
• Battery, 12 V
• Battery, 12 V (OPTIONAL)
• Battery, 12 V or low-voltage DC power supply
• Battery, 1.5 V
• Battery, 6 V
• Battery pack, 6 V, AC, 3 A
• Battery-powered drill
• Beaker
• Beaker, 1000cm³
• Beaker, 250 ml
• Beaker, 250 ml (or 150 ml, tall form)
• Beaker, 400cm³
• Beaker, 400 ml
• Beaker, deep
• Beaker, deep (see technical note)
• Beaker of water
• Beaker of water (400 ml is convenient)
• Beaker or jug, 600 ml (approx)
• Beaker, Pyrex, 600 ml
• Beakers, 250 ml, 2
• Beakers, 2, large, one containing hydrogen, the other carbon dioxide
• Beakers, 400 ml, half-class set
• Beakers, 500 ml, 3
• Beakers, deep, 2
• Beam balance
• Beam, horizontal, 1 m
• Beam with regular markings, simple
• Bell jar (OPTIONAL)
• Beta particle tracks
• Beta particle tracks bent in a much weaker magnetic field
• Beta source, pure (Strontium 90)
• Bicycle 'dynamo' assembly
• Bicycle dynamo assembly, see technical note
• Bicycle pump
• Bicycle pumps or syringes
• Bicycle valve rubber tubing
• Bimetallic strip (e.g. copper & iron)
• Bimetallic strip (e.g. copper & iron), optional
• Blackboard chalk, soft, 1 cm
• Black card, large sheet
• Black paper
• Block of solid CO₂
• Block of solid CO₂, OR
• Blocks of materials (see Technical notes)
• Blocks without screw eye (25 cm x 12 cm x 1 cm), 3
• Blocks, wooden, with rounded edges, smooth, 5 (approx 10 cm x 7.5 cm x 5 cm)
• Blocks, wooden, with spring buffers attached, 2
• Block with screw eye (25 cm x 12 cm x 1 cm), smooth
• Blue marble
• Blunt drill bit
• Board
• Board and sand tray if necessary
• Board or other suitable surface marked with grid lines
• Board, with one dimension larger than the skateboard wheelbase, with screw-eye fixed to it
• Boiling tubes, 4
• Borosilicate glass cap tubes to hold ampoules, 2
• Boss
• Boss and clamp
• Bosses, 2
• Bosses, 3
• Bosses, 4
• Bosses, 8
• Bottle of ink (washable)
• Bottle of mercury
• Bottle, plastic
• Bouncing ball
• Bourdon gauge
• Bourdon gauge
• Bowl of water (coloured if possible), large
• Bowl, shallow and spherical
• Box lined with soft material
• Box of matches
• Boyle's law apparatus
• Bradawl, 5 cm long (approx)
• Brass or aluminium strip, about 20 cm x 1 cm
• Brass ring pucks, 2
• Brick or block of wood as fulcrum
• Brick or wood block
• Bricks, 2
• Bricks, 3
• Bricks, 6
• Brick, single
• Brick, wooden
• Bright lamp, 500 W
• Bright lamp to illuminate the object
• Brine
• Bromine ampoules, 2
• Bromine diffusion tubes with matched accessories (see list below), 2
• Broom handle
• Broomstick pendulum
• Brown paper sheet about 1.5 m long, 15 to 20 cm wide - or a roll of long paper
• Brush for cleaning stopcocks, small
• Bucket
• Bucket, large
• Bulb holder with extension cable and power supply
• Bulb pipette
• Bulldog clips, 2, to hold glass plates
• Bung and tube to fit flask or bottle
• Bung, glass tube and short length of rubber tubing
• Bung, plastic tube and short length of rubber vacuum hose
• Bungs with capillary tubing to fit test-tubes
• Bung to close lower outlet of aspirator
• Bung to fit cylinder carrying two short glass tubes
• Bung to fit flask
• Bung with glass tube
• Bung with glass tube to fit (take care when inserting the glass tube into the bung)
• Bung with narrow-bore tubing to fit
• Bunsen burner
• Bunsen burners, 2
• Bunsen burners, 4
• Bunsen burners, half-class set
• Bunsen burner with salt
• Bunsen burner with salt for sodium flame
• Calcite crystal, large
• Calcite crystals
• Calculator
• Camera
• Camera and multiflash system
• Camera and multiflash system
• Camera and stroboscope or multiflash system
• Camera with B (open shutter) setting
• Camphor in a bottle
• Candle
• Candles, 2
• Capillary tube with liquid index (see technical note)
• Carbon dioxide
• Carbon dioxide (optional)
• Carbon dioxide puck (ring with cardboard lid)
• Carbon-filament lamp for preliminary focusing
• Carbon filament lamps 200 W (up to 8 students may share each lamp)
• Carbon film resistor - e.g. about 100 ohms, 1 W
• Carbon paper, soft
• Carbon resistor
• Carbon resistor, 100 ohm
• Carbon resistor, 10 ohm
• Carbon resistor e.g. 1 W 3.9 ohms
• Carbon rods, small or thick pencil leads, 2
• Card
• Card, about 8 cm x 4 cm
• Card and suitable adhesive
• Cardboard
• Cardboard box, filled with screwed-up paper or containing polystyrene packaging
• Cardboard box with open top (e.g. photocopier paper box)
• Cardboard, rectangle
• Cardboard tube (approx 50 - 100 cm long)
• Cardboard tube (approx 5 cm diameter, 30 cm long)
• Cardboard tube, small (approx 2.5 cm in diameter, 30 cm long)
• Cardboard, two slots cut into it
• Cardboard, white, piece of
• Card, large piece
• Card or plywood spacers for raising the ray box
• Card, small pieces of
• Card (such as postcard)
• Card, thin, approx 13 cm square
• Card, with hole
• Card with slit (5 mm wide approx)
• Card with slot
• Card with slot (see technical notes)
• Cartridge fuses, 0.25 A, (3 cm long), preferably glass type with visible wire, 2
• Cast bismuth specimens
• Caster sugar
• Castor oil
• Cathode ray oscilloscope, or PC-based digital oscilloscope
• C-core, laminated iron
• C-cores
• C-cores, 4
• C-cores and clip, pair of
• C-cores, laminated iron, 2
• CD or gramophone record
• Celestial sphere apparatus as used in the Model of the Celestial sphere experiment
• Cell
• Cell, 1.5 V
• Cell, 1.5 V in holder
• Cell holders, 7
• Cells, 1.5 V, 2
• Cells, 1.5 V, 3
• Cells, 1.5 V, 4
• Cells, 1.5 V in holder, 4
• Cells, 1.5 V in holder, 4 (or stabilized low voltage DC supply)
• Cells, 1.5 V type C, 4
• Cells, 1.5 V, with holders, 2
• Cells, 1.5 V, with holders, 3
• Cells, 1.5 V, with holders, 4
• Cell to contain liquid - sized to suit projector
• Centripetal force kit
• Chalk
• Change of volume kit (as shown in the diagram) with long needle (8 to 10 cm)
• Charging cloth
• Chart showing the star pattern
• Chemical balance
• Chemical balance (0-100 g)
• Chemical balance (0-1 kg)
• Chemical balance OPTIONAL
• Chemical balance with a sensitivity of no less than 0.1 g
• Chinagraph pencil or water-based pen
• Chinagraph pencil, water-based pen, or elastic bands
• Clamp
• Clamp and stand
• Clamp, or wooden support blocks
• Clamps and stands for holding each pennant
• Clamps for light gates, 2
• Clamp stand and boss
• Clamp stand and bosses, 2
• Clamp stands, 2
• Clapper bell in round flask
• Class 2 laser source (optional)
• Cleaning tissue
• Clear linear filament striplight in a mounting without diffuser, wired with 13 A plug
• Clip for C-cores
• Clip for C-cores, 2
• Clock-spring, large, mounted on a board at the spring centre
• Cloth for rubbing
• Cloth, piece of
• Cloud chamber photographs of alpha particles
• Coarse diffraction grating (about 100 lines/mm)
• Coarse diffraction gratings, 16
• Coarse diffraction gratings, 2
• Coil (120 turns) and C-core for coil, or other electromagnet that will hold and quickly release the can
• Coil of bare copper wire (1 metre, SWG 32)
• Coil of bare Eureka wire (1 metre, SWG 28)
• Coil of copper wire (see technical note)
• Coils, 120 turns, 2
• Coils, 2400 turns, 2
• Coin
• Coin or other object to be plated
• Coins, 20 to 30
• Coin, small (e.g. penny)
• Coins of a single denomination, supply of (pennies will do)
• Coloured water for the manometers
• Commercial relay, small
• Common salt
• Common salt, saturated solution
• Compact light source
• Compact light source (12 V tungsten iodine lamp), with suitable power supply
• Compact light source and power supply
• Compact light source and power supply (OPTIONAL)
• Compact light source (quartz iodine lamp)
• Compact light source (quartz iodine lamp) or 100 W 12 V lamp
• Compact light source (slide projector or other high intensity lamp can be used but needs dim-out), 100 W
• Compasses
• Compression spring
• Compression spring, large
• Computer running a spreadsheet/graphing package (optional)
• Computer with datalogging software
• Concave mirror, large
• Concave spherical mirror, large, with holder
• Concentrated sulfuric acid
• Conducting spheres, 2
• Conducting spheres, light-weight, 2
• Conductivity wires or rods, set of
• Cones/track markers, 10 OPTIONAL
• Connecting leads
• Connecting leads
• Connecting leads, 2.5 m with crocodile clips
• Connecting probes (e.g. clean 4 mm plugs), 2
• Connecting wire
• Connector box
• Constant head of pressure apparatus
• Constant head of pressure apparatus on tall stand
• Converging lens
• Converging lens, large (focal length 10 cm, large aperture)
• Convex lens
• Convex lens (+14 D), plano-convex if available
• Convex lens (+ 2.5 D), plano convex if available
• Convex lens, +6D to +10D
• Convex lens, large
• Cooking oil, a few ml, in a small beaker or cup
• Copies of blank 'star diagrams' (several per student)
• Copper calorimeter, large or a steam chest
• Copper electrodes, 2
• Copper plate, about 20 cm x 20 cm (or similarly sized sheet of aluminium foil)
• Copper sheet
• Copper sheet approx 0.5 cm x 2 cm
• Copper sheet, mounted, (or use Leslie's cube, with mains immersion heater)
• Copper sheet (or use Leslie's cube, with mains immersion heater)
• Copper sulfate crystals (harmful)
• Copper sulfate solution, 0.5 M
• Copper voltameter (see technical note)
• Copper voltameters (exactly similar), 3
• Copper wire, 15 cm lengths
• Copper wire, bare, 26 SWG, 1 reel
• Copper wire frame
• Copper wire, heavy
• Copper wire, insulated with bare ends, 200 cm
• Copper wire, insulated with bare ends, 200 cm, 2 lengths
• Copper wire, insulated with bare ends, 4 m
• Copper wire, PVC-covered, 100 cm with bare ends
• Copper wire, PVC-covered, 150 cm with bare ends
• Copper wire, PVC-covered, 26 SWG, 50-100 cm with bare ends
• Copper wire, stiff
• Copper wire, stiff, bare, SWG 32 and SWG 26
• Copper wire, thin, insulated, SWG 36, 2.5 m
• Cord
• Cord for pendulum, at least 1 m or longer
• Cork ball to fit inside the smaller diameter cardboard tube
• Cork ring (see technical notes)
• Corks or bungs to fit tube, 2
• Corrugated cardboard to burn
• CO₂ cylinder
• CO₂ cylinder (syphon type)
• CO₂ pucks kit, including glass plate and pucks
• Cotton
• Cotton wool
• Cover glass
• Cover glasses, 2
• Crank assembly
• Crocodile clip holder
• Crocodile clips, 10 pairs
• Crocodile clips, 2
• Crocodile clips, 3
• Crocodile clips, 3 (if necessary)
• Crocodile clips, 4
• CRO for comparison
• Cross-beams of wood, 2
• Crude balance (see technical notes)
• Crumbs of camphor
• Crunchie bar
• Crushed ice
• Crystallising dish
• Crystallizing dish, at least 1 per student
• Cube, 1 m x 1 m x 1 m
• Cube, 1 m x 1 m x 1 m (e.g. five squares of Corriflute, 1 m x 1 m, with L-shaped wire links for the vertical edges. The fifth square sits on the top - no base is needed.)
• Current balance
• Curtain rail, 60 cm length, 3 (circular shape, parabolic shape and v-shape) mounted on an appropriate board
• Curtain ring
• CuSO₄ solution, concentrated (harmful)
• Cylinder and metallised spheres
• Cylinder, wide, 10 cm diameter
• Cylinder, wooden
• Cylindrical concave mirror
• Cylindrical convex lens
• Cylindrical lenses (see technical notes)
• Cylindrical magnets, 4
• Data from the transit of Venus
• Data in the tables below
• Datalogging timing device
• DC ammeter (0-5 amp)
• DC dial, 2.5–0–2.5 mA
• DC milliammeter (±2.5 mA)
• DC power supply, 4.5 V or 5 V
• DC voltmeter (0 -15 volt)
• DC voltmeter (0 - 5 volt)
• DC voltmeter, 2 V full scale deflection
• DC voltmeter (±5 V)
• DC voltmeters, 2, reading to at least 12 V
• Deflection tube
• De-magnetizing coil (300 turns or 2400 turns)
• Demerara sugar
• Demonstration ammeter (0-1 A)
• Demonstration ammeter, 1 A
• Demonstration forcemeter, 50 N
• Demonstration forcemeter (5 kg / 50 N)
• Demonstration forcemeter, reading at least 10 N
• Demonstration forcemeters, 0-20 kg, 2
• Demonstration forcemeters, 0-20N, 2
• Demonstration meter
• Demonstration meter (0 - 15 volts DC)
• Demonstration meter, 0 - 5 amp DC
• Demonstration meter (2.5-0-2.5) mA
• Demonstration meters OPTIONAL
• Demonstration meters, with AC dials (1 A, 5 A, 5 V), 2
• Demonstration meter with 0-5 amp DC and 0-5 amp AC ranges, 0-12 volt and 0-240 V AC ranges
• Demonstration meter with a centre zero dial, -2.5 mA to +2.5 mA
• Demonstration meter with dial (2.5–0–2.5 mA DC)
• Demonstration oscilloscope
• Demonstration spring balances, 2
• Demonstration trolley
• Demonstration trolleys ('playground trolleys'), 2
• Demonstration voltmeter (0-5 V)
• Demountable (demonstration) transformer with 1 coil of 1200 turns for mains use
• Demountable (demonstration) transformer with coils of 12 000 and 300 turns
• Detergent for cleaning dishes (for technician use)
• Detergent solution
• Dice, one for each student
• Dice, plentiful supply (OPTIONAL)
• Digital and analogue ammeters, 0-1 A (OPTIONAL)
• Digital and analogue ammeters with varying ranges (OPTIONAL)
• Digital and analogue voltmeters, 0-12 V (OPTIONAL)
• Digital and analogue voltmeters with varying ranges (OPTIONAL)
• Digital camera
• Digital camera or video camera
• Digital multimeters, 2
• Digital multimeter, used as a milliammeter
• Digital multimeter with multiple current ranges (OPTIONAL)
• Digital multimeter with multiple voltage ranges (OPTIONAL)
• Dilute sulfuric acid (0.1 M)
• Diode IN4001 (OPTIONAL)
• diode laser (Class 2)
• Diode or LED
• Diode (see technical note)
• Dipper
• Dippers, 2
• Disposable mouthpieces, to protect hygiene
• Distilled or de-ionised water
• Distilled water
• Domestic balance
• Domestic balance (2 kg to +/- 2 g is adequate)
• Domestic balance (50g)
• Domestic spring balance
• Domestic spring balance or a top pan balance (5 kg +/- 2 g)
• Double segment black card (see diagram)
• Double slit, e.g. made from glass microscope slide
• Double slits holder
• Double slits kit, 1
• Dowel rod
• Drawing board
• Drawing pin
• Drawing pins, 2
• Dressmaking pins (with ball heads), one or more
• Drinking straw
• Drinking straws
• Drinking straws, 2
• Drinking straw (waxed paper or plastic)
• Driving belt
• Dry cells, 1.5 V, 4
• Dry cells, 2
• Dry ice attachment
• Dry ice attachment for cylinder
• Dustbin
• Dynamics trolley
• Dynamics trolleys
• Dynamics trolleys, 11
• Dynamics trolleys, 2
• Dynamics trolley, spring loaded, with rod ‘trigger’ for spring release
• Dynamics trolleys, up to 3
• Earth globe, small
• Earthquake table
• Edinburgh CO₂ pucks kit, 1
• EHT capacitor, 0.1 μF
• EHT power supply
• EHT power supply (0-5 kV)
• EHT power supply (0-5 kV), output current limited to 2 mA or 5 mA on old models
• EHT power supply (5000 volts)
• EHT power supply (NOT an HT one)
• EHT power supply with large series safety resistor
• Elastic band
• Elastic bands (5 cm), 2
• Elastic cords, 2
• Elastic cords, 3
• Elastic cords for accelerating trolley
• Elastic cords for accelerating trolleys, 2
• Elastic cords with means of fixing them to the trolley, 3
• Elastic cord, thin (e.g. knitting elastic)
• Elastic cord, to accelerate puck
• Electric
• Electric drill
• Electric fields apparatus
• Electric heater, small
• Electric kettle to provide hot water
• Electric kettle to provide hot water OR Bunsen burner and tripod
• Electric motor, fractional horsepower
• Electric motor, small
• Electric motor, small
• Electric motor, small e.g. one constructed by student group in earlier activity
• Electrode assembly (platinum or carbon electrodes, two, with suitable holder)
• Electrodes, either 15 cm lengths of bare copper wire (20 SWG) or carbon rods (pencil leads), 2
• Electrodes, one pair
• Electrodes - pairs of carbon rods and strips of copper foil, width 1 cm
• Electrolyte: saturated solution of copper sulfate to which is added 5 per cent IM sulfuric acid
• Electrolytic capacitor (100 µF, 50 V)
• Electrolytic capacitor (500 µF, 15V), see technical note 1
• Electron deflection tube and stand
• Electron diffraction tube
• Electronic balance
• Electronic scaler/timer
• Electronic timer
• Electronic timers or datalogging package, OPTIONAL
• Electrophorus plate
• Electrostatic generator, Van de Graaff or Wimshurst
• Elliptical reflector
• Empty PET drink bottle, 2 litre
• Equal Arm balance
• Equal-arm balance
• Eureka can (OPTIONAL)
• Eureka wire (1 metre, 28 SWG), bare
• Eureka wire, 28 SWG or thicker
• Eureka wire (34 SWG), 10-cm length
• Eureka wire 34 SWG, 15 cm length
• Eureka wire 34 SWG, 1 m length
• Eureka wire, bare (28 SWG), 1.5 m, 2 lengths
• Evaporating basin
• 'Evesham' pressure apparatus (see technical note 1)
• Expansion cloud chamber
• Expendable springs, 2
• Extendable steel springs, 2 or 3
• Extra retort stand
• Eye dropper
• Eye droppers, half-class set
• Eye protection
• Eye protection for each student
• Fault-finding board (see technical note)
• Felt-tip pen (dark colour)
• Filament lamp 12V, 24W
• Filter funnel
• Filter papers, large
• Fine beam tube and stand
• Fine diffraction grating (about 300 lines/mm)
• Fine emery cloth, 1 piece
• Finely woven cloth, 2 pieces
• Fine nylon thread
• Flask, 250 ml, fitted with bung, glass tube and polythene or rubber tubing
• Flask, large (e.g. 2 litre wide neck)
• Flask with bung and glass tube, 500 ml
• Flask with bung and glass tube, 500 ml
• Flat board
• Flat board or tray
• Flat-headed nail, large
• Flat trucks, 4
• Flexible curtain rail
• Flexible curtain rail, 3 m to 4 m long
• 'Flexicam' and screen (optional)
• Flexicam or webcam linked to a projector (OPTIONAL)
• Flight of stairs, not less than 3m in height, and preferably much more
• Floodlamp (preferably with photoflood bulb)
• Floodlights (optional)
• Fluorescein solution
• Fluorescein solution, beaker of
• Fluorescein solution or methyl orange solution (see CLEAPSS Recipe Cards)
• Fluorescent tube
• Foamed polystyrene spheres (3.8 cm diameter), 55 approx
• Food colouring
• Food colouring (OPTIONAL)
• Football or other large ball (for the Sun)
• Foot pump
• Foot pump and adaptor
• Foot pump with gauge
• Foot pump with pressure-gauge
• Forcemeter
• Forcemeter, 0-10 N or masses
• Forcemeter, 0-50 N
• Forcemeter, 50 N, large size for easy class viewing
• Forcemeter, large
• Forcemeter, reading up to 10 N
• Forcemeters, selection of different ones
• Forces and energy demonstration box
• Fractional horsepower motor (or the largest dc motor available)
• Fractional horsepower motor (or the largest DC motor available)
• Fractional horsepower motor (with gear box)
• Fractional horsepower motor (with gear box)
• Fractional horsepower motor (with gear box)
• Fractional horsepower motor, with gearbox
• Frame to support multiflash equipment
• Freely swivelling pulley
• Freezing mixture of ice and salt (or solid carbon dioxide)
• Frequency cards, one set (download from technical notes)
• Frosted glass or greaseproof paper
• Funnel and glass tube
• Galvanometer
• Galvanometer, sensitive
• Galvanometer, sensitive to e.g. 3.5–0–3.5 mA, 10 ohm resistance
• Gamma GM tube if available
• Gamma source, as pure as possible e.g. Co-60 with a filter to stop βη, or Ra-226 with a thick filter
• Gas jar
• Gas jar lid
• Gas jars
• Gas jars, 2
• Gas voltameter kit (see Technical notes and illustration)
• Gas voltameter (see technical note)
• G-clamp
• G-clamp, 10 cm
• G-clamp, 5 cm
• G-clamp or other method of fixing stand to bench
• G-clamps
• G-clamps
• G-clamps, 10 cm, 2
• G-clamps, 2
• G-clamps, 2, 10 cm and 5 cm
• G-clamps, 3
• G-clamps, 4
• G-clamps, 5 cm, 2
• G-clamp to fix crank assembly to bench
• Geiger-Müller tube
• Geiger-Müller tube, thin window
• Gelatine
• Glass beaker, 500 ml
• Glass block
• Glass bottle
• Glass bottle with well-fitting rubber bung through which is a glass tube
• Glass cleaner
• Glass cutter (e.g. wheel or diamond)
• Glass funnel and tubing
• Glass plate
• Glass plate and gantry
• Glass plate approximately 250 x 250 mm
• Glass plates, 2
• Glass plate to place in ripple tank
• Glass prism
• Glass rod stirrer
• Glass sheet
• Glass sheet e.g. 6 mm thick plate glass
• Glass, small piece
• Glass trough, large round
• Glass trough, small
• Glass tube
• Glass tube (1.5 m long, 4 mm bore, 8 mm external diameter)
• Glass tube and fishing swivel, or freely swivelling pulley
• Glass tube, approximately 150 mm long x 3 mm internal diameter
• Glass tube drawn to a jet
• Glass tubing, drawn out to form a stubby jet
• Glass wool
• Glider accessories: magnetic buffers, pin and Plasticine
• Glue
• Glycerine
• Glycerine, heavy oil or liquid detergent
• Goldfish or flower bowl
• Gold leaf electroscope
• Granite specimens, with unweathered surfaces
• Granulated sugar
• Graph paper (2 mm), sheet
• Graph paper (A4 sheets)
• Graph paper - at least 100 sheets
• Graph paper, laminated if possible
• Graph showing how energy stored in stretched elastic varies with extension (see technical notes)
• Graticule, 1/2 mm or Ronchi ruling
• Greaseproof paper
• Greaseproof paper or frosted screen
• Greaseproof paper screens, small
• Greaseproof paper, small pieces
• Greaseproof paper to make a translucent screen
• Green filter
• Grid
• Grooved launching ramp with fixed bulldog clips
• Hacksaw blade
• Hacksaw blade or similar metal strip
• Hammer
• Hammer and hardwood 'anvil'
• Hammer, light
• Hammer or mallet
• Hand lens
• Hand lenses
• Hand stroboscope
• Hand stroboscopes, 2
• Hanger, 10 g mass
• Hanger with slotted masses, 100 g
• Hanger with slotted masses, 10 g
• Hanging pennants, metal or light plastic, up to 6
• Hardboard disc (to cover beaker) with holes (to take electrodes)
• Hardboard piece to take plotting compass
• Hardboard sheet, approx 3 m x 300 mm
• Hardboard sheet, approx 500 mm x 100 mm
• Head of water unit
• Heatproof gloves
• Heat-proof mats to protect the bench
• Heat-resistant mat
• Heavy iron wires
• Helmholtz coils, 2
• Helmholtz magnets, 2
• High-dispersion prism (flint or lead glass)
• Hinged platform made from two pieces of hardboard
• Hoffman clip
• Hoffman clip (optional)
• Holder for Geiger-Müller tube
• Holder for GM tube
• Holder for mirror
• Holder for radioactive source (e.g. forceps)
• Holder for radioactive sources
• Holder for slit
• Holder for slit or blocks to hold slit
• Holder for slits
• Hook for electroscope
• Horseshoe magnets, 2
• Hot filament diode tube and stand
• HT power supply (0-300 V), VERY HAZARDOUS BECAUSE OUTPUT CURRENT IS HIGH
• HT power supply, 0-350 V and 6.3V for heater
• Hydrochloric acid
• Hydrogen
• Hydrogen chloride (conc.)
• Hydrogen discharge lamp
• Hypodermic syringe
• Ice
• Icing sugar
• Illuminant (lamp, lens and power supply)
• Immersion heater
• Immersion heater, 12 V
• Immersion heater, 12 V 100 W (older, 60 W types will do)
• Immersion heater, 12 V 100 W (older, 60 W types will do)
• Immersion heater (mains powered)
• Inductor, e.g. 12 000 turn coil on laminated core
• Inertia balance
• Inertia balance ('wig-wag')
• Infra-red detector, metered output
• Infra-red receiver
• Infra-red transmitter
• Ingenhousz's apparatus, or similar
• Insulating gloves
• Insulating screens
• Insulating sheet approximately 250 x 250 mm with hole
• Insulating sheet with hole
• Insulating tape (OPTIONAL)
• Insulation/cladding for the metal block OPTIONAL
• Iron filings
• Iron filings in a pepper pot
• Iron flask for freezing
• Iron rod, approximately 50 cm long, 5 mm in diameter
• Iron wire
• Iron wire, 16 SWG in 20 cm lengths, half-class set
• Iron wire or steel wool
• Iron wire to hold piping
• Iron yoke
• Iron yokes, 2
• Jars, small, e.g. jam jars, one per student
• Jelly 'fibre' approx 22 cm long
• Jet screen
• Kettle to provide hot water
• Kilogram masses, 2, made of same substance and with same shape
• Kilogram mass made of a different material (e.g. aluminium or lead)
• Kinetic model kit, two-dimensional
• Kinetic theory model kit (transparent cylinder with small steel balls)
• Kitchen timer (either wind-up or digital)
• Knife (plastic type will be safer)
• Knife switch
• Knitting needle
• Knitting needle
• Knitting needle, long
• Knitting needle or length of glass tube
• Laboratory stools, 4
• Laboratory timers, electronic (ideally ones with different scale intervals, e.g. 0.1 s, and 0.01 s)
• Lab oven (if available)
• Lamp
• Lamp, 12 V 24 W
• Lamp, 12 V, 24 W and power supply
• Lamp, 12 V, 24 W and power supply (OPTIONAL)
• Lamp, 12 V, 24 W and power supply (OPTIONAL) [Not a modern tungsten-halogen compact lamp which emits some UV]
• Lamp (12 V 24 W) in lamp holder
• Lamp, 12 V 36 W
• Lamp, 12 V 36 W and power supply
• Lamp 12 V, 5 W in SBC holder
• Lamp 12V 6W
• Lamp, 12 V 6 W
• Lamp (12 V, 6 W) in holder
• Lamp (12 V, 6 W), mounted on base with 4 mm terminals
• Lamp, 1.5 V in lamp holder
• Lamp, 230 V 100 W
• Lamp, 240 V 100 W
• Lamp, 240 V 150 W or 100 W
• Lamp, 240 V, 15 W, in holder
• Lamp, 2.5 V in holder
• Lamp 48W 12V
• Lamp, 500 W
• Lamp and stand
• Lamp and stand, 2
• Lamp (behind screen)
• Lamp, bright (500 W) or slide projector
• 'Lamp Brightness Comparison' unit (see Technical notes)
• Lamp, bright, up to 500 W
• Lamp (e.g. compact light source, 12V)
• Lamp for translucent screen
• Lamp, holder and stand
• Lamp, holder and stands
• Lamp, holder and stand with comb slits and cylindrical lens
• Lamp holder (BC) on base
• Lamp holder for the above, mounted on a base with 4 mm terminals
• Lamp holder on base
• Lamp holder (SBC for LV use)
• Lamp holder (S.B.C.) on base
• Lamp holders (SBC) on base, 2 (Safety pattern batten lamp holders are best)
• Lamp housing
• Lamp in holder
• Lamp in holder, 12 V 36 W
• Lamp in holder, 12 V, 36 W or 24 W
• Lamp in holder, 6 V 3 W approx
• Lamp in holder, 6 V 60 mA
• Lamp in lampholder, either 1.25 V or 2.5 V, 2
• Lamps (12 V, 24 W) in lamp holders, 2
• Lamps (12 V 6 W) in holders, 2
• Lamps (12 V 6 W) in holders, 4
• Lamps (2.5 V, 0.3 A) in holders, 2
• Lamps in holders, low voltage, 4
• Lamp, stand, housing and holder
• Lamp, stand, housing (one left- and one right-handed), 2
• Lamps with holders, 2
• Lamps with holders, 3
• Lamps with holders, 6
• Lamp unit
• Lamp with compact filament
• Lamp with fine filament (12 V, 24 W)
• Lamp with holder
• Lamp with holders, 5
• Lamp with lamp holders, 3
• Lamp with lamp holders, 3 (e.g. 1.25 V, 0.5 A)
• Large alum crystal, if possible
• Large ball bearing (or large marble)
• Large card with 45 mm hole (for iris)
• Large convex lens
• Large forceps or pliers, if required
• Large glass pipe
• Large magnet (Eclipse major)
• Large mass or block of wood (tied up with string)
• Large mass or hook to anchor one end of the wire on the floor or near it
• Large pin and cork
• Large plastic container with tap
• Large reflecting surface, preferably outdoors
• Large sheet of white paper (A3)
• Large spring
• Large supply of coins (all of one denomination)
• Large transparent trough (glass or plastic)
• Latex foam block or cylinder
• Latex thin walled, small diameter tubing, (not Bunsen tubing)
• Launching platform (a drawing board or other plank of wood).
• Launching ramp
• Lead, 4 mm
• Lead acetate (ethanoate) solution
• Lead block
• Lead plates
• Leads
• Leads, 4 mm
• Leads, 4 mm, 10
• Leads, 4 mm, 12
• Leads, 4 mm, 2
• Leads, 4 mm, 3
• Leads, 4 mm, 4
• Leads, 4 mm, 5
• Leads, 4 mm, 6
• Leads, 4 mm, 6
• Leads, 4 mm, 7
• Leads, 4 mm, 8
• Leads, 4 mm, 9
• Leads, 4 mm shrouded, 6
• Leads and crocodile clips
• Lead shot, 500 g
• Leads, including shrouded leads
• Leads, one set, to motor
• Leads, plastic-covered crocodile clips attached at one end, the other end bare
• Leads (shrouded), 3
• Lead strip
• Left and right handed housing
• Length of angle iron, 2
• Length of Bunsen tubing
• Length of clear tubing (PVC or other plastic), 12 m
• Length of cord
• Length of pressure tubing
• Length of pressure tubing, 1.5 m
• Length of pressure tubing, 1 m
• Length of stout iron wire
• Length of twine
• Lengths of loose chain (at least 1 m long)
• Lengths of wood, about 5 cm x 5 cm x 50 cm, 2
• Lens (+14D)
• Lens, +6D
• Lens (+7 D)
• Lens (+7D or 150 mm focal length)
• Lens (+7D or 150 mm focal length). (The focal length should be equal to the length of the box)
• Lens holder
• Lens holder, 2
• Lever-arm balance
• Lever-arm or domestic balance (+/- 2g)
• Lever-arm or top pan balance (+/- 10g is sufficiently accurate)
• Light beam assemblies (sources and sensors), 2
• Light beam sensor assembly (source and sensor)
• Light gate, interface and computer
• Light gate, or photo-diode assembly & light source
• Light gates and electronic timer (optional extension)
• Light gates, interface and computer, 2
• Light meter (or photographic exposure meter)
• Light ring (see technical notes)
• Light rod
• Light source and appropriate power supply, OPTIONAL
• Light source, compact
• Light source, compact (100 W 12 V)
• Light-spot galvanometer
• Light spring
• Lightweight forcemeter, 0-10 N, with scale markings concealed by paper (this is to be written on)
• Lightweight forcemeter, 0-10N, with scale markings concealed by paper (this is to be written on)
• Linear air track with two gliders, each fitted with a black card
• Line shaft unit
• Liquid nitrogen (or liquid air), supply of
• Liquids (e.g. water, paraffin, brine, cooking oil and syrup)
• Loads, square and identical
• Loads to be hung from spring arm, e.g. thread
• Load with mass up to 1 kg, e.g. bag of sand, brick, heavy book, or 1 kg mass
• Logs or bags of balls (see technical note)
• Long nails or doweling to hold spring
• Long spring
• Long strip of card (to act as scale)
• Long weak spring or rubber thread
• Loop and hook, to hang load from forecemeter
• Loop of thread, about 40 cm long
• Loudspeaker
• Loudspeaker, large
• Loudspeakers, 2
• Loudspeaker, small
• Loudspeaker, small (about 4 ohms)
• Low frequency AC generator with battery – see technical note
• Low frequency AC generator with battery, see technical note 2
• Low power lamp to go behind screen
• Low-voltage lamp and power supply
• Low voltage power supplies, 2 (compact light source will need 8A low voltage power unit)
• Low voltage power supply
• Low voltage power supply (0-12 V)
• Low voltage power supply for lamp
• Low voltage power supply for ray box
• Low voltage power supply or transformer (to supply 8A)
• Low voltage supply
• L.T. supply for the timer
• L.T. variable voltage supply
• L.T. variable voltage supply (12 V 8 A)
• L.T. variable voltage supply (capable of 8 A at 12 V)
• L T voltage (8 Amp capacity)
• LV power supply rated at 6A (used on DC)
• LV power supply, variable DC
• LV variable power supply
• Lycopodium powder and dispenser
• Lycopodium powder dispensers, several (or talcum powder)
• Macro-Millikan apparatus
• Magnadur (ceramic) slab magnets, 2
• Magnadur magnets
• Magnadur magnets, 2
• Magnadur magnets, 2 (optional)
• Magnets, 2, horseshoe or flat-face ceramic (suitably mounted)
• Magnets, different types (at least 2 pairs)
• Mains extension cable fed through earth-leakage circuit-breaker (ELCB)
• Mains lamp, 230V 25W, pearl
• Mains lamp, 230V 60W, pearl
• Mains lamp (a carbon filament lamp is best, next a clear tungsten filament of 40 W) in a safety batten lamp holder
• Mains lamps and holders, gas-filled and vacuum-filled (60 watt). Please note this piece of apparatus is very difficult to find.
• Maltese cross tube and stand
• Malvern energy transfer kit (click on link to see what this includes)
• Manometer with unequal limbs, 0.75 m tall
• Marble
• Marbles, 1.5 cm diameter, 55
• Marbles, a supply of
• Marbles, coloured, 20 - 24, about 1 cm diameter
• Marbles, dried peas, sand and water
• Marbles, large, a supply of
• Marbles, large, several, about 2 cm diameter
• Marbles or 13 mm steel balls (not small steel balls)
• Marker pen
• Marker pen, black
• Masking tape
• Mass, 0.5 kg
• Mass, 100 g
• Mass, 1/2 kg
• Mass, 1 g
• Mass, 1 kg
• Mass, 200 g, pulley and string
• Mass, 2 kg
• Mass, aluminium, 1 kg
• Mass, brass or lead, 1 kg
• Masses
• Masses, 0.5 kg, 5
• Masses, 1/2 kg, 4
• Masses, 1 kg, 2
• Masses, 1 kg, 2 kg, 3 kg, 4 kg
• Masses, 1 kg to be used as 10 newton weights, 16
• Masses, 50 g, 5 or 6
• Mass Hanger, 10 x 100g
• Mass hanger and slotted masses (100 g)
• Mass hangers with slotted masses (100 g), 2
• Mass hanger with slotted masses, 100 g
• Mass hanger with slotted masses (10 g)
• Massive pendulum
• Mass, large, 1 kg or more
• Mass to use as pendulum bob, 1Kg
• Mass with hook (mass approx 25 g)
• Matches
• Matches
• Matchstick
• Materials for building tower (e.g. drinking straws, spaghetti, K'nex, sticky tape, Blu-tack, glue gun)
• Mats, heat resistant, half-class set
• Matt black background
• Means of supporting the wire coils so that they can be heated in the flame
• Measuring cylinder, 1000 ml
• Measuring cylinder, 100 ml
• Measuring cylinder, 10 ml
• Measuring cylinder, 1 litre
• Measuring cylinder (1 litre capacity would be useful)
• Measuring cylinder, 250 ml
• Measuring cylinder or tall and fairly wide glass tube, 1,000 ml, with firm stopper
• Measuring cylinder, Pyrex, 100 cm³ capacity
• Measuring cylinders, 100 ml or 250 ml, clean and dry, 2 or more
• Measuring cylinders, large, 1000 ml, 2, or several Perspex boxes, 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm
• Measuring jug
• Mechanics trolley or wind-up/pull-back toy car OPTIONAL
• Megohm resistor
• Melinex, metal-coated, 2 strips
• Melinex, plain, un-coated, 2 strips
• Mercury
• Mercury spill tray
• Mercury tray
• Mercury tray i.e. large non-metallic, smooth-surfaced tray (ideally with a small drain hole in one corner fitted with a rubber bung), 2
• Mercury trough
• Metal ball, 50-100 g (or rubber bung)
• Metal-bodied bicycle pump
• Metal container for flask, fitted with wire stirrers
• Metal foil (steel or copper), thick strip about 1 cm x 5 cm
• Metallised foil (e.g. Mylar or Melinex) strip, about 18 cm x 1 cm
• Metal 'loads', square and identical
• Metal or wood blocks to hold the pendulum cord, 2
• Metal plates with insulating handles
• Metal plates with insulating handles, 2
• Metal plate with 1.5 mm hole
• Metal plate with five parallel slits or multiple slits
• Metal plate with single slit
• Metal plate with three parallel slits
• Metal screw (1.2 cm)
• Metal strips used as jaws, 2
• Metal strips used as jaws, 5 cm, 2
• Metal tray lined with cork mat
• Meter attachment, including wheel contact, small DC dynamo, and millivoltmeter
• Methylated spirit
• Methyl orange
• Metre or half metre ruler
• Metre rule
• Metre rule
• Metre rule (OPTIONAL)
• Metre rules, 2
• Metre rule with cm and mm markings
• metre scale
• Microammeter, light spot type, optional
• Microbalance (see Technical notes)
• Micrometer
• Micrometer (OPTIONAL)
• Microphone
• Microscope cover-slip
• Microscope (e.g. Junior type, x20), optional
• Microscope, low power
• Microscope, low power (e.g. x10 objective, x10 eyepiece) and large aperture
• Microscope slide
• Microscope slides, 2
• Microscope slide with cover slip
• Microscopes, selection of
• Microscope, with illuminants and power supply
• Microscope with objective of relatively high power (x40 objective, x10 eyepiece)
• Microwave receiver
• Microwave receiver amplifier
• Microwave transmitter
• mild steel yoke
• Milliammeter, DC
• Miniature loudspeaker or earpiece
• Miniature neon lamp
• Miscellaneous materials
• Model CD (see technical notes)
• Model eye as used in the experiment Model eye demonstration with flask
• Model 'field' (see technical notes below)
• Model rail section
• Model railway track (1.5 m)
• Monochord
• Motion sensor, interface and computer
• Motor-driven stroboscope, with 5-slit disc
• Motor-driven vacuum pump
• Motor/dynamo unit
• Motor/generator unit
• Motor mounted on beam, with beam support
• Motor (or additional motor/generator unit)
• Motor unit
• Mounted lamp holder (B C)
• Mounted lamp holder (one per class)
• Mounted lamp holders
• Mounted lamp holders (safety pattern)
• Mounted pulley and shaft, plus light cord (about 1 m)
• Mounted slice of germanium, see technical note
• Mounted transformers
• Mounted U-tube, 3 m tall (see Technical note 1)
• Mounted U-tube manometer, 1.5 m tall
• Mouthpiece tubes, disposable, 2 (see Technical note 2)
• Multimeter
• Multimeters, 2 (optional)
• Multimeters, 2, or 1 ammeter and 1 voltmeter of suitable ranges
• Multimeter with probes, 2
• Multiple or triple slit
• Multiple slit
• Multi-slit screen (comb)
• Nail, 15 cm
• Nail, 15 cm or dowel rod
• Nail, large, made of iron
• Nails
• Nails, 15 cm, 2
• Nails, 15-cm, 2
• Nails, 4
• Nails, 8 cm, 2, one of them beheaded
• Naphthalene
• Needle
• Needle (e.g. darning needle or knitting needle)
• Needle (fine)
• Neon indicator lamp (230 V, 10 mm MES type with integrated resistor)
• Neon lamp
• Neon lamp (240 volt, 5 watt) in holder
• Nichrome wire
• Nichrome wire (26 SWG), reel of
• Nitrogen dioxide (toxic and corrosive)
• Non-electric soldering iron or poker
• NPN transistor (mounted if possible)
• Nuts or washers, 4
• Nylon thread, e.g. fishing line, 1 reel
• Objects, 2, larger and smaller (e.g. pair of smallish stones, or sets of keys)
• Object, small
• Objects to weigh, e.g. letter (about 50 g), parcel (about 500 g)
• Objects to weigh e.g. letter, parcel
• OHP acetate or tracing paper, clean sheets
• OHP pen
• OHP pen (soluble ink)
• Oil film kit
• Old cathode ray TV, if you have one
• Olive oil in a bottle
• Olive oil in a bottle, and some small dishes
• Onion
• Opaque, non-conducting screen
• Optical pin or similar pointed object (e.g. drawing compass)
• Ordinary bottle of clear glass with a well-fitting rubber stopper and glass tube
• or sealed radium source
• or sealed (semi-pure) alpha source, americium-241 (²⁴¹Am), 5μCi
• or sealed source of americium-241, 5 μC
• Oscilloscope
• Oscilloscope, see technical note
• Other items to be made readily available for testing e.g. distilled water (or de-ionized water), tap water, salt (NaCl), copper sulfate crystals, sugar, dilute sulfuric acid 0.1 M, and oil (any type, e.g. cooking oil)
• Other materials for testing magnetic behaviour, including small scraps of paper
• Other objects and materials (e.g. Plasticine pieces, glass beads and wood)
• Pack of paper containing a known number of sheets (e.g. 500)
• Paddle (wood block with handle)
• Paint brush
• Paintbrush, soft, 5 cm
• Pair of 5cm wood or metal blocks as jaws
• pairs of 5cm wood or metal blocks as jaws, 3
• Pale coloured filter for one lamp (optional)
• Panel pins
• Paper
• 'Paper Bourdon gauge' also known as 'party blow outs'
• Paper clips, small
• Paper, large supply of
• Paper or card, large sheets (e.g. A1)
• Paper plates
• Paper protractor (see technical notes)
• Paper 'riders'
• Paper, roll of
• Paper scale
• Paper scales, tall
• Paper, sheet of (OPTIONAL)
• Paper, small piece
• Paper, stiff
• Paper towels, large pack
• Paper, white
• Paper, white and soft carbon paper; or 2 metre rules
• Parabolic mirrors, metal-surfaced, 1 pair
• Parachute, improvised with paper or cloth
• Paraffin, coloured
• Paraffin wax
• Paraffin wax, white, 3 kg
• Party balloon, large
• Pen
• Pencil
• Pencils or wood dowels, 2
• Pendulum
• Pendulum Bobs, 3, on strings with lengths in ration 1:2:4
• Pendulum (e.g. Plasticine bob on string/thread)
• Pendulum (e.g. Plasticine bob on string/thread 1m long)
• Pendulum (larger bobs work better)
• Pennies or other coins, plentiful supply
• Penny
• Permanent bar magnet
• Permanent bar magnets
• Permanent bar magnets, 2
• Perspex boxes with internal dimensions 10 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm, 2
• Perspex box with internal dimensions 10 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm
• Perspex containers, 5 or 6, or hard plastic beakers
• Perspex containers (rectangular boxes, open at top), 2
• Perspex (insulating) rod
• Perspex rod (about 60 cm) with paper vane
• Perspex rods, 2
• Perspex rods, to hold balls, 2
• Petrol
• Petroleum ether, 40 - 60 boiling fraction
• Petroleum ether, 60-80°C boiling fraction
• Phototransistor
• Phototransistor or photodiode
• Pictures of Rutherford scattering (for example the two further down the page)
• Piece of metal and G-clamp
• Piece of pale coloured filter to fit lamp
• Piece of pale coloured filter to fit ray box
• Piece of sheet lead
• Pieces of coloured filter
• Pieces of finely woven cloth, 16
• Pile of books
• Pin
• Pin for making holes
• Pin for making holes (dress-making rather than optical)
• Ping-pong ball
• Pinhole camera box (15 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm)
• Pins, 2
• Pipe-clay triangle
• Pipe, long transparent plastic
• Pivoted table
• Plain card
• Plane mirror
• Plane mirror
• Plank, long, with one grooved edge
• Plank, short
• Plank, smooth
• Plank with screw eye (1 m x 15 cm x 1 cm), smooth
• Plank, wooden
• Plank, wooden (2 m to 3 m x 15 cm x 2 cm)
• Plano-convex lens, + 13D
• Plano-convex lens, + 13D (20D if possible)
• Plano-convex lens, + 14D
• Plano-convex lens, + 7D
• Plano-convex lens, + 7D (14D if possible)
• Plano-convex lens, approximately +7D
• Plano-convex lens, large
• Plano-convex lens, large (100 mm approx)
• Plano-convex or biconvex lens + 2.5 D or 400 mm focal length approx
• Plano-convex or biconvex lens + 7 D or 150 mm focal length approx
• Plano-cylindrical lens, approximately + 13 D
• Plano-cylindrical lens, approximately + 14 D
• Plano-cylindrical lens, approximately + 7 D
• Plastic balls, large
• Plastic buckets, 2
• Plastic bucket with lid
• Plastic container with tap (at least 30 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm)
• Plastic cup
• Plasticine
• Plasticine
• Plasticine or Blu-tack
• Plastic or cardboard cups
• Plastic syringe
• Plastic tank, rectangular
• Plastic tube to carry over to beaker
• Plastic tube to extend to the bottom of the measuring cylinder
• Plastic tubing
• Plastic tubing to connect the syringes
• Plastic tubing to fit small cylinder, one length of
• Plastic waves, 2
• Plate glass, one piece to hold objects for casting shadows
• Plate-glass plates, pairs
• Platform, wooden, approx 5 cm x 25 cm
• Pliers
• Plotting compass
• Plotting compasses
• Plotting compasses, 2
• Plotting compasses, as many as possible
• Plotting compass (optional)
• Plywood or card to act as hand, small piece
• Plywood or strong card (about 25 cm long), 2 lengths
• Pole, 2, to 3 m long
• Polystyrene ball
• Polystyrene ball (2.5 cm or suitable diameter to fit through neck)
• Polystyrene balls, metallised, approx 3 cm diameter
• Polystyrene beads, small
• Polystyrene block
• Polystyrene, expanded, piece of
• Polystyrene sphere
• Polystyrene sphere or alternative (for the Earth)
• Polystyrene spheres
• Polystyrene sphere, small
• Polythene bag or balloons, small
• Polythene for clamping wire, heavy, 2 small sheets
• Polythene or PET drink bottle or large can (5-litre size) (see Technical notes)
• Polythene rod
• Polythene rod or strip
• Polythene tile
• Polythene tubing, 15-cm lengths, 2
• Porous pots, 2
• Positive lenses (+7D), 2
• Positive lens, large
• Potassium dichromate (IV)
• Potassium iodide and starch solution (see technical note)
• Potassium manganate VII crystals
• Potassium permanganate, crystals
• Potassium sulfate and phenolphthalein solution (see technical notes)
• Power line terminal rods, 2
• Power supplies for lamp filaments
• Power supply, 0-12 V
• Power supply, 0-300 V
• Power supply, 0-350 V
• Power supply, 0-5 kV
• Power supply, 0 to 12 V, DC
• Power supply, 0 to 12 V, DC (OPTIONAL)
• Power supply, 0 to 12 V, DC (or, better, small smooth stabilized 5 V supply)
• Power supply, 0 to 12 V, DC to supply up to 4 A
• Power supply, 12 V AC
• Power supply, 240V
• Power supply, 240 V, AC
• Power supply, 2 V AC (e.g. a very low voltage power unit as used for electromagnetism)
• Power supply, 5 V DC
• Power supply, 5 V, DC or four 1.5 V cells
• Power supply, 6.3 V, AC, for the heater filament (this is often included on the HT supply)
• Power supply, 6 V, AC
• Power supply, AC, low voltage
• Power supply, AC, low voltage variable
• Power supply, EHT
• Power supply, EHT, 0-5 kV
• Power supply, EHT (0-5kV) and/or Van de Graaff generator
• Power supply, EHT, 0-5 kV (current limited to less than 5 mA)
• Power supply, EHT, 0-5 kV (with internal safety resistor)
• Power supply, EHT, 0-5 kV (with option to bypass safety resistor)
• Power supply, EHT, 0-5 kV (with option to bypass safety resistor)
• Power supply, EHT, 1 (or 2 if a second one is available)
• Power supply for lamp
• Power supply for lamps
• Power supply for light source, low voltage, variable
• Power supply for light source, variable voltage
• Power supply for light source, variable voltage, capable of supplying 8 A
• Power supply for motor, low voltage, variable
• Power supply for motor, low voltage, variable
• Power supply for ray box
• Power supply for ray box
• Power supply for ray boxes
• Power supply for ray boxes
• Power supply, HT
• Power supply, HT, 0-250 V
• Power supply, HT, 0-250 V, with special shrouded connecting leads
• Power supply, HT, 0-300 V, (current limited to less than 5 mA)
• Power supply, low-voltage
• Power supply, low voltage, 6 V
• Power supply, low-voltage, AC
• Power supply, low voltage, continuously variable
• Power supply, low voltage, DC
• Power supply, low voltage, DC, continuously variable or stepped supply with rheostat (>1 A)
• Power supply, low voltage, DC e.g. 12 V, 4 A at least
• Power supply, low voltage, variable
• Power supply, low voltage, variable
• Power supply, low voltage, variable
• Power supply, low-voltage, variable
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, 0 - 24 V
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, 0-24 V or battery pack
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, 0 - 24 V, smoothed
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, able to supply 6A
• Power supply, low voltage, variable AC, capable of delivering at least 0.5 A
• Power supply, low voltage, variable for field coils
• Power supply, low voltage, variable (for motor)
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, or rheostat (10-15 ohms) and battery, 12 V
• Power supply, low voltage, variable (to match pump)
• Power supply, low voltage, variable, to supply 8A at 12V
• Power supply, low-voltage ('Westminster pattern' very-low-voltage supplies are best)
• Power supply, L.T. variable (with AC and DC option)
• Power supply, LV
• Power supply, variable, 0-12 V
• Power supply, variable, 0-12 V, with smoothing capacitor of high ripple rating
• Pressure gauge
• Pressure tubing to connect pump to the bottle
• Prism, high-dispersion
• Prism (preferably high dispersion)
• Projection microscope
• Projection microscope or slide projector
• Proof plane
• Protactinium generator
• Protecting mat
• Protective resistor, at least 10 ohm
• Protractor
• Pulley and string
• Pulley, double
• Pulley, single
• Pulley, single, on clamp
• Pyrex beaker
• Pyrex beaker, 600 ml
• Pyrex glass test-tube, 75 mm x 12 mm or similar
• Pyrex test tube (e.g. 75 mm x 10 mm)
• Quill tube (see technical notes)
• Radiant heater
• Radiant heater, 300-watt
• Radiant heater, connected to the mains
• Radiant heater, low voltage
• Ratemeter (OPTIONAL)
• Ray box
• Ray boxes, 2
• Ray box or lamp (12 V 24 - 48 W)
• Reading lamp, with shades, to illuminate scale
• Reciprocal tables
• Rectangular Perspex box (10 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm)
• Red and green colour filter
• Red filter
• Red marble
• Red or orange safelights
• Release mechanism (may be electromagnetic)
• Resistance meter (or ammeter, voltmeter and low voltage power unit or cell)
• Resistance substitution box
• Resistance wire 22 SWG (dia 0.8 mm) Nichrome, bare
• Resistance wire 28 SWG (dia 0.376 mm) e.g. constantan
• Resistor, 220 k ohms, 1 W
• Resistor (680 ohms, 1 W)
• Resistor (about 2 ohms)
• Resistor (approx 15 ohms, 10 watt)
• Resistors of a range of values from 10 ohms to 100 ohms
• Resistors (rated for 7 W power) from 0.22 ohm to 10 ohm (e.g. Maplin L0.22 - L10R)
• Retort rods, 3
• Retort stand
• Retort stand
• Retort stand and boss
• Retort stand and boss
• Retort stand and bosses (2 if metre rule is used)
• Retort stand and bosses, tall
• Retort stand and clamp
• Retort stand base
• Retort stand bases, 2
• Retort stand bases and rods, 3
• Retort stand, boss and clamp
• Retort stand, boss, and clamp
• Retort stand, boss, and clamp or Tripod
• Retort stand rod, long
• Retort stand rods, 3
• Retort stands, 2
• Retort stands and bosses, 2
• Retort stands and bosses, 3
• Retort stands, bosses and clamps, 2
• Retort stands, bosses and clamps, 2 (one very tall)
• Retort stands, bosses and clamps, 3
• Retort stands, bosses and clamps, 4
• Retort stands, bosses, and clamps, at least 3
• Rheostat
• Rheostat (10 - 15 ohms)
• Rheostat (10 - 15 ohms) e.g from circuit teaching kit
• Rheostat, (10 - 15 ohms), rated at 4 or 5 A
• Rheostat (10-15 ohms, rated at 5A or more)
• Rheostat, 10 - 15 ohms rated at about 5 A
• Rheostat (10 - 20 ohms)
• Rheostat (10 - 20 ohms) rated at 5 A at least
• Rheostat (10 ohms, at least 1A)
• Rheostat, e.g. 200 ohms, 2 W
• Rheostat, e.g. 8 ohm rated at 5 A
• Rheostats (10 - 15 ohms), 2
• Rheostats (10 - 15 ohms), 2, rated to carry at least 1 A
• Rheostats (10-15 ohms), 3
• Rheostats (10-15 ohms), 3, rated to carry at least 1 A
• Rings, 3, 10 - 12 cm diameter
• Ripple tank and accessories
• Rivets
• Rivets, 4
• Rod and two bosses
• Rod for attaching elastic cord to trolley
• Rod, hard steel
• Rod, length 20 cm, diameter 1 cm
• Rods for stacking trolleys
• Rollers, 10
• Rollers, 1 cm diameter and 20 cm long, 10
• Rope
• Rope, 6 m (or rubber tube)
• Rope, 6 m, soft and flexible
• Rope or belt, 1.5 m
• Rotary vacuum pump
• Rotary vacuum pump (optional)
• Rotating devices, 1 (if available)
• Rotating devices, 8 (if available)
• Rotating disc, motor-driven.
• Rough cloth, piece approx 30 cm x 30 cm
• Round-bottomed flask
• Round-bottomed flask, 1 litre
• Round-bottomed flask (1 litre) or glass bottle
• Round-bottomed flask, 250 ml
• Round-bottomed flask, 2 litre
• Round nail, 5 cm long (approx)
• Rubber ball
• Rubber band
• Rubber band or driving belt
• Rubber bands
• Rubber band (s)
• Rubber bands, 2
• Rubber bands OPTIONAL
• Rubber bands, or length of elastic cord
• Rubber bung
• Rubber bung and tubing
• Rubber bung no. 25 with 11/12-mm hole, 2
• Rubber bung on the end of a string (about 1 m)
• Rubber bung, or similar, to seal one end of tube
• Rubber bung or tennis ball
• Rubber bungs, 2
• Rubber bungs, 3, (diameters of ends to take balloon necks stretched over them)
• Rubber bungs fitted with glass tubes, 2, to fit aspirator
• Rubber bungs to fit the pots, each fitted with glass tubes and connected to manometers
• Rubber bung to fit flask
• Rubber bung, with a single hole, to fit neck of bottle and tubing
• Rubber cap
• Rubber cord
• Rubber cord (or extending spring)
• Rubber disc, small
• Rubber hammer
• Rubber pressure tubing, approx 30 cm length
• Rubber sheet
• Rubber tube and bung to fit bottle or can
• Rubber tube attached to glass tube with narrow jet
• Rubber tube, heavy
• Rubber tubing
• Rubber tubing for connection to water tap
• Rubber tubing to connect syringes to burette outlets
• Rule, 15 cm, 2
• Ruler
• Ruler, 15 or 30 cm
• Ruler, 300 mm
• Ruler, 30 cm
• Ruler in clamp
• Ruler marked in centimetres (not millimetres)
• Ruler with graduations in mm (e.g. metre rule)
• Ruler with millimetre scale (e.g. a metre rule)
• Runway
• Runway, if necessary
• Runway that will allow the ball to roll all the way down
• Runway, with means to produce a uniform slope
• Sacking to burn
• Safety screen
• Safety screen holders, 2
• Safety screens
• Salol
• Sampler cards, one set (download from technical notes)
• Sand
• Sand (1 small bag) or block of wood
• Sand hourglass / egg timer
• Sand, wheat, rice or dried peas
• Sawdust, fine, small amount
• Saw-toothed knife or modelling saw, sharp (avoid a pointed type)
• SBC sockets fitted with 12 V 24 W lamps, mounted, 2
• SBC sockets fitted with 2.5 V 0.2A lamps, mounted, 2
• Scale, 10 cm, with strong contrast
• Scaler
• Scaler (if needed by Geiger-Müller tube)
• Scaler or datalogging timing system
• Scissors
• Scrap of kitchen foil
• Screen
• screen - A4 graph paper pasted on cardboard
• screen, A4 graph paper pasted on cardboard
• Screen and post
• screen - graph paper pasted on cardboard
• Screen, white
• Screw clip
• Screwdriver
• Sealed pure alpha source, plutonium-239 (²³⁹Pu), 5 μCi (if available)
• Sealed pure beta source, strontium-90, 5 μC
• Sealed pure beta source, strontium-90 (⁹⁰Sr), 5 μCi
• Sealed "pure" gamma source, cobalt-60 (⁶⁰Co), 5 μCi
• Sealed pure gamma source, cobalt-60 (⁶⁰Co), 5 μCi (semi-pure: some were sold without β filters)
• Sealed radium source, 5 μCi (if available)
• Sealed source of radium, 5 μC (if available)
• Selection of high-value resistors, see technical note
• Selection of rulers/tape measures with different scale divisions (OPTIONAL)
• Sellotape
• Sellotape, coloured
• Semicircular Perspex or glass block
• Semiconductor diode - e.g. IN 5401
• Semolina
• Sensitive laboratory balance
• Separating funnel
• Set of absorbers (e.g. paper, aluminium and lead of varying thickness)
• Set of colour filters (60 mm x 60 mm) for projector
• Set square OPTIONAL
• Set squares, 2
• Setting up Young's experiment with light
• Sharp knife
• sharp needle
• Sheet of paper
• Sheet of plain white paper
• Sheet of plastic grating replica (if available)
• Sheet of the same paper
• Sheets of paper
• Sheets of paper, 2
• Sheets of paper (A4 is suitable)
• Sheets of paper ruled in squares
• Shelves, 3
• Shielded rheostats or variacs for projectors - or alternative (see technical notes), 2
• S-hook
• Short length of rubber tubing
• Short rubber tubing with wall thin enough to close
• Short, weak spring, made from thin Manganin wire wound onto a pencil
• Shrouded leads, 4 mm, 5
• Side barriers (blocks of wood)
• Signal generator
• Signal generator, low frequency
• Signal generator, low-voltage
• Signal generator, with high current output
• Signal generator, with selectable waveform output
• Silver nitrate plating solution (see technical notes)
• Similar bottles, 3 (about 150 to 200 ml volume)
• Similar bottles, 3 (about 200 ml volume)
• Simple pendulum
• Simple pendulum bob, 1 - 2 cm lead, iron or brass
• Single-edged razor blade or sharp knife
• Single pulleys on clamps, 2
• Single pulleys on clamps, 4
• Single slit
• Skateboards or demonstration trolleys, 2
• Slab of rock salt, approximately 250 x 250 mm
• Slides for projectors (see technical notes)
• Slinky spring
• Slotted base
• Slotted bases, 2
• Slotted masses, 100 g set
• Slotted masses, 10 g set
• Slotted masses, 400 g
• Slotted masses on holder, 100 g - 400 g
• Small beakers or disposable cups, 3
• Small calorimeters (or similar metal canisters), 2
• Small cardboard box (5 cm or larger) e.g. matchbox
• Small crucible
• Small DC motor on a base plate
• Small electric motors of different powers, 2
• Small funnel
• Small object for students to drop, e.g. bag of sand
• Small piece of cork
• Small pieces of closely-woven fabric for each student
• Small pieces of colour filter (6 cm x 6 cm) red, green, true blue
• Small plastic funnel
• Small projection lanterns (35 mm slide projectors), 3
• Small projector to provide large patch of coloured light
• Small reading lamp
• Small screen (100 mm x 100 mm approx) with 10 to 20 mm diameter hole
• Small toy (e.g. Lego person) or lump of Blu-tack, mass approx 5g
• Small trough of mercury
• Smoke box
• Smoke cell, incorporating a light source and lens (Whitley Bay pattern)
• Smoke filter (see Technical notes)
• Smoke generator or bee-smoker
• Smoke source (e.g. paper drinking straw)
• Smooth pole or bamboo cane, 2 m to 3 m long
• Smooth surface with frame, e.g. mounted glass plate
• Smooth surface with frame, such as a mounted glass plate
• Snow
• Soap solution
• Soap solution, fresh
• Socket complete with wattage and current meter (see Technical notes)
• Soda glass, pieces 15 cm long, 7-12 mm diameter
• Soda glass test-tube, 75 mm x 12 mm or similar
• Sodium bicarbonate or common salt
• Sodium flame
• Sodium lamp or Bunsen burner and salt
• Sodium thiosulfate
• Sodium thiosulfate crystals
• Sodium thiosulfate solution, 500 ml 1 M (25%) or ammonia solution
• Solder, not cored
• Solid fuel tablets (metaldehyde)
• Solid state detector and pre-amplifier (if available)
• Sound sources, such as tin whistles, guitar, radio
• Source of alpha radiation (if it is not part of the cloud chamber)
• Spark counter
• Spark counter (or Geiger-Müller tube and counter)
• Sparkler
• Special lamp (see Technical note)
• Spectacle lenses
• Spectrometer
• Spectrum tube holder, with integral power supply or 5 kV EHT power supply
• Spectrum tube, hydrogen
• Spectrum tube, neon
• Spherical - 7D lens, 2
• Spherical + 7D lens, 2
• Spherical lens +7 D
• Spinthariscopes with 0.02 μCi sources, (740Bq)
• Spinthariscopes with 0.5μCi sources, (18500Bq)
• Split pins
• Split pins, 2
• Split pins (stationery variety), 3
• Spring balance, domestic or lever-arm balance
• Spring balances, 0-20 kg, 2
• Spring connectors with bulb holder, 3
• Spring, expendable
• Spring holders
• Spring holders, 20
• Springs
• Springs, 20
• Springs, 3
• Springs, large, 3
• Stand and clamp to hold the flask down
• Stand, clamp and additional boss
• Stand, clamp and boss
• Stand for box
• Stand for tube
• Stand, G-clamp and boss
• Stands, 3
• Stands, clamps and bosses
• Stands fitted with boss heads, 2
• Statistics board (see technical notes)
• Steam engine unit (A model steam engine is included in the Malvern energy conversions kit)
• Steam engine unit (A model steam engine is included in the Malvern energy transfer kit)
• Steel ball, 15 – 25 mm in diameter, polished
• Steel ball (2.5 cm in diameter is ideal)
• Steel ball bearings, small, up to 2000
• Steel ball bearings, small, up to 2,000
• Steel ball or marble rod used in the torsional pendulum must be balanced
• Steel rings, magnetized, 2
• Steel rods, hardened, 2
• Steel rollers, 10
• Steel spring
• Steel springs which can be compressed or extended
• Steel wool (wire wool), grade 2
• Steel yoke
• Stethoscope (to allow the use of the human pulse as a timer) OPTIONAL
• Sticky-backed tape, e.g. ticker-tape
• Sticky tape
• Sticky tape or glue
• Sticky tape, 'write on' variety
• Stiff card or hardboard, 35 cm x 10 cm
• Stones
• Stopclock
• Stopcocks, 8 mm large bore, 2
• Stopwatch
• Stopwatch & metre rule
• Stopwatch & metre rule
• Stopwatch or other timer
• Stopwatch or stopclock
• Stopwatch or stopclock
• Straight barrier
• Straight barrier, 2
• Strawberry, apple or cola laces (preferably not sugar-coated)
• String
• String, 1 – 2 m lengths
• String, length 1 m approx
• String, length about 50 cm
• String, length of
• String or other cord, approx 20 cm long
• String or other cord (not elastic)
• Strip of copper foil, 1 cm wide
• Strong cardboard box
• Students
• Stylus (see technical note)
• Styrocell beads
• Suction sticker, for central anchor point
• Sugar crystals, type used for coffee
• Suitable support for flask (see diagram)
• Sulfur
• Sulfur
• Sulfur, 2 g powdered roll sulfur per group
• Sun globe, large
• Sun label
• Supplies of carbon dioxide and natural gas
• Supply of ball bearings of different sizes (at least 5 of each size) OPTIONAL
• Supply of hot water and supply of cold water
• Support blocks, 2
• Support blocks or clamps, 2
• Sweets and biscuits, selection
• Swimming costume
• Swimming goggles
• Switch
• Switches, 2
• Switches, single-pole, 4
• Switch, SPDT
• Switch unit
• Switch unit (very useful to break circuit quickly)
• Syringe kit (large glass syringe, rubber cap, hypodermic syringe with short needle)
• Syringe, nylon, large
• Syringe, nylon, small
• Syringe, plastic, 20 - 25 ml, 2
• Table salt, supply
• Table-tennis ball
• Table-tennis (ping-pong) ball, coated with Aquadag
• Tall-form beaker, 2000 cm³
• Tank, large rectangular transparent
• Tape measure, 5 m
• Tape measure, long (at least 10 m) OPTIONAL
• Tape measure or metre ruler
• Tape measure OR students can create their own tape measure, using string
• Teaspoon
• Telescope mount or metre rule with Plasticine or Blu-Tack
• Telescope mount or metre rule with Plasticine or Blu-Tack
• test 1
• Testing rig (see technical notes)
• Test-tube
• Test-tube (e.g. 100 by 12 mm)
• Test-tube (hard glass)
• Test tube holder
• Test-tube holder
• Test tubes, 2
• Thermal film
• Thermistor
• Thermistor - negative temperature, coefficient, e.g. 100 ohm at 25°C (available from Rapid Electronics).
• Thermistor, see technical note
• Thermochromic film
• Thermocolour film, cut to suitable size
• Thermometer
• Thermometer (0°-100°C)
• Thermometer -10°C to 110°C
• Thermometer, 3
• Thermometer (demonstration or digital display)
• Thermopile
• The telescope as constructed in the experiment Making a telescope
• Thick card with central 50 mm hole
• Thin card, small piece
• Things to look at
• Thing wire, strong, length 3.5m
• Thin paper (up to 80 gsm), 2 sheets
• Thin string or nylon cord, length about 1.5 m
• Thin-walled rubber tubing, 15 cm length
• Thin window GM tube
• Thin wire, strong, about 3.5 m
• Thread
• Thread
• Thread, 3 metres
• Thread and rubber bands
• Thread (breaking force, approx 1 N)
• Three-dimensional kinetic model kit
• Ticker-tape
• Ticker-tape vibration generator
• Ticker-tape vibrator or vibration generator
• Ticker-timer
• Ticker-timer with power supply unit
• Tin can
• Tin can
• 'Tin’ can (about 10 cm diameter)
• Tin cans, 2 (see Technical note 1)
• Tin cans, large, 2
• Tin can with bung and tubing
• Tintacks or paper clips, supply of
• Tin with lid
• Tin with lid
• Tissue paper, scraps
• Tongs or heat-proof gloves (if using solid carbon dioxide)
• Top balance capable of reading ± 0.01 g
• Top pan balance
• Top-pan chemical balance with a sensitivity of no less than 0.01 g
• Toy car
• Toy 'hot' wheels kit (OPTIONAL)
• Toy shop marbles, steel balls or lead shot
• T-piece
• T-piece or Y-piece and rubber tubing
• Track circuit relay and signals unit
• Transformer
• Transformer coil, 600 turn
• Transformer or low-voltage AC supply
• Transistor
• Translucent screen
• Translucent screen and lamp
• Translucent screen and lamp or projector
• Translucent screen and lamp (see Technical note 2)
• Transparent plastic cup (e.g. Perspex picnic cup)
• Transparent plastic hemispherical bowl
• Transparent plastic sheet
• Transparent trough
• Trap (to prevent the water being 'sucked' into the mouth)
• Trap (to prevent the water being 'sucked' into the vacuum pump)
• Trap (to prevent the water getting into the gas supply)
• travelling microscope
• Tray, deep, or lots of books
• Tray to hold the bottle filled with mercury
• Triangle of card (to act as pointer)
• Triple slit
• Tripod
• Tripod, gauze and heat-resistant mat
• Tripod, or other means of holding camera still during exposure
• Tripods, gauzes and heat-resistant mats, 2
• Tripod with round top
• Trip switch (hinged flap)
• Trolley
• Trolley, demonstration (or skateboard)
• Trough
• Trough, filled with water
• Truck attachment (see Technical notes and the diagram below)
• Tube at least 1 m long and about 8 cm diameter
• Tube, transparent plastic or glass (1.0 m to 1.5 m long)
• Tubing adaptor to connect to constant head apparatus
• Tubing, Perspex or glass, approximately 5 cm in diameter, 60 cm long
• Tuning fork
• Tuning fork and rubber hammer
• Turbine/Pump unit
• Turntable
• Turntable, with rotating sphere attachment (see diagrams)
• Tweezers
• Two-dimensional kinetic model kit
• Two-way switch
• Ultraviolet lamp
• Ultraviolet lamp (a 'blacklight' UV lamp will not do - use one with a clear quartz envelope)
• Umbrella
• Umbrella, plain black
• Umbrellas, 2
• Umbrellas, 2, black expandable
• Unknown masses of between 0.5 and 1.0 kg
• ‘Unknown’ object (a covered or painted regular object made of the same material as one of those used above OPTIONAL)
• Unused car-engine oil
• U-tube, 1.5 m tall, mounted on a board (see technical note 2)
• U-tube manometer, 0.5 m tall
• U-tube of water
• Vacuum flask for liquid nitrogen
• Vacuum pump
• Vacuum pump, electronically operated rotary type
• Valve rubber tubing, 2 pieces, each about 2 cm long
• Van de Graaff generator
• Van de Graaff generator accessories
• Variable focus eye
• Variable low-voltage power supply
• Variable resistor, 20 ohm, 3 W
• Variable resistor, optional
• Variable resistor or rheostat
• Variable resistor or rheostat e.g. 3 W 25 ohms
• Variable voltage supply
• Variable voltage supply, 0-12 V
• Variable voltage supply, 0-12 V, 8 A
• Variable voltage supply (0-12 V, AC or DC as required by pump)
• Variable voltage supply (0-12 V, or as required by pump)
• Various other components
• Vaseline
• Vegetable black
• Vegetable black, 250 g
• Vernier callipers
• Vibration generator
• Vibration generator
• Vibration generator to generate continuous waves
• Video camera OPTIONAL
• Violin bow
• Voltage supply
• Voltage supply for lamp
• Voltage supply, low, (typically 12 V at 6 A)
• Voltameter
• Voltmeter, 0-10 V
• Voltmeter, 0-15 V
• Voltmeter, (0-15 V), DC
• Voltmeter, 0-15 volt (see discussion below)
• Voltmeter, 0-5 V
• Voltmeter, 0-5 V
• Voltmeter, 0 to 10 V, DC
• Voltmeter, 0 to 15 V, AC
• Voltmeter, 0 to 5 V, DC
• Voltmeter, 10 V
• Voltmeter, 300 V, DC
• Voltmeter (± 5 V), DC
• Voltmeter (5 volt), DC
• Voltmeter, AC
• Volumetric flask, one-litre
• Wall clock
• Wall, paper or card to form a screen
• Washing-up bowls with hot and cold water from taps
• Water
• Water circuit board
• Water dropper
• Waterproof scale, marked in millimetres, preferably glass
• Water, tank of
• Water trough
• Water with 2% acid XXXXX
• Wave receiver, 3 cm
• Wave transmitter and modulator, 3 cm
• Wax
• Wax, hard, to attach objects to plate
• Weak spring (OPTIONAL)
• Wedges, 4
• Weighted card
• Weight hanger with slotted weights
• Weight hanger with slotted weights, 10 g
• Wetting agent (or liquid detergent)
• Wheel with band brake
• White paper
• White Screen
• White screen (500 mm x 300 mm approx)
• White screen or blank wall
• Wig-wag, with 3 removable masses
• Wire available for class use (see technical notes)
• Wire, bendable
• Wire, Eureka, 26 SWG, effective length 50 cm
• Wire mesh
• Wire stirrer to fit inside the tall beaker and go round the measuring cylinder
• Wire stirrup (for supporting a rod)
• Wire strippers
• Wire-wound resistor e.g. 3.9 ohm 3 W or 5 W
• Wooden base with ridges
• Wooden block (4 cm x 4 cm x 2 cm)
• Wooden block, about 6 cm x 4 cm x 12 cm
• Wooden block and clamp
• Wooden blocks, 2
• Wooden board, about 20 cm x 8 cm x 2 cm
• Wooden burette stand (optional)
• Wooden lath, 1 m
• Wooden prism block
• Wooden rod
• Wooden rods fitted with 4 mm terminal, 2
• Wooden stands, 2
• wooden stand with clamp, 2
• Wooden strip (15 cm x 2 cm, for example, a medical tongue depressor)
• Wooden strip or tongue depressor
• Wooden 'washer' (about 25 mm diameter)
• Wood pole or beam, rigid, at least 2 m long
• Woven cloth, many pieces
• Wrist watch
• Wrist watch (to allow the use of the human pulse as a timer)
• Xenon flasher
• Xenon strobe and camera
• Xenon stroboscope
• Yellow Sun disk
• Zinc-plate attachment
• Zinc sheet approx 0.5 cm x 2 cm

Updated 27 Jul 2004

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