| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 1C10.00 | Velocity | | |
| 1C10.10 | bulldozer on moving sheet/2D | PIRA 200 | A bulldozer runs at constant speed on a moving paper to show how velocities add and subtract. |
| 1C10.10 | bulldozer on moving sheet | 1C10.10 | The bulldozer on a moving sheet moves in the same or opposite direction as the moving sheet, not at a angle, to show addition and subtraction of velocities. |
| 1C10.10 | bulldozer on moving sheet | Disc 01-09 | Identical bulldozers run at constant speed, one on a moving paper, to show how velocities add and subtract. |
| 1C10.20 | PASCO dynamics cart | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1C10.20 | PASCO dynamics cart | 1C10.20 | |
| 1C10.21 | measuring constant velocity | M-2a | Time a toy truck with a stop clock as it is pulled across the table at constant velocity in front of a meter stick. |
| 1C10.22 | photographing uniform motion | 7-1.1 | Take an open shutter photo of a toy tractor moving a blinky. |
| 1C10.25 | air track and glider | PIRA 500 | |
| 1C10.25 | air track and glider | 1C10.25 | |
| 1C10.25 | constant velocity (airtrack) | Disc 01-08 | Dots are superimposed on the screen every half second to mark the position of the air glider. |
| 1C10.26 | velocity -air track and glider | 11-1.4 | Measuring air track cart velocity: stopwatch and meter stick, spark recorder, photo interrupt. |
| 1C10.27 | velocity -air track and glider | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1C10.27 | velocity -air track and glider | 1C10.27 | Level air track with the Pasco photogate timer system. Use one or two timers. |
| 1C10.30 | approaching instantaneous velocity | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1C10.30 | approaching instantaneous velocity | 1C10.30 | An air cart is given a reproducible velocity by a solenoid kicker. Flags of decreasing length interrupt a photo timer. |
| 1C10.30 | approaching instantaneous velocity | 7-1.16 | A ball breaks two foils to start and stop a timer. Change spacing of gates to approach instantaneous velocity. |
| 1C10.32 | strobed disc | Mb-10 | Look at a fluorescent spot on a 1725 RPM disc with a stroboscope at multiples of the frequency to demonstrate the limiting process. |
| 1C10.33 | speed at a point | 7-2.1 | Take a picture of a light bulb pendulum with a strobed camera. |
| 1C10.51 | terminal velocity | TPT 16(3),160 | A mechanical device rolls down an incline with a terminal velocity. |
| 1C10.55 | terminal velocity tube | TPT 1(2),82 | A marble rolling down a tube of water at a slight incline reaches terminal velocity allowing slow constant velocity to be measured. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | AJP 44(7),711 | Graphite rods are broken to switch an oscillator in and out of a counter circuit. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | AJP 45(9),882 | Use the circuit in AJP 44(9),85 with the breaking foil method of measuring muzzle velocity. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | AJP 45(9),882 | Using the apparatus by Blackburn and Koenig, AJP 44,855(1976), to measure the muzzle velocity of a rifle. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | TPT 20(3),184 | The bullet passes through two aluminum foil strips. The signal is shown on an oscilloscope. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | Mb-21 | Bullet breaks two metal foils triggering a timer. |
| 1C10.60 | muzzle velocity - foil | 7-1.2 | Aluminum foil triggers 1 m apart start and stop an electronic timer. Construction details. |
| 1C10.61 | muzzle velocity - photogate timer | AJP 55(9),856 | Measure the speed of a bullet with eight crisscrossing LED beams with the detectors connected to an eight input OR gate. |
| 1C10.61 | muzzle velocity - photogate | 7-1.19 | Details of a photoelectric triggering circuit good to a few microseconds. |
| 1C10.62 | time of flight | AJP 47(5),426 | An inexpensive circuit useful in time-of-flight velocity measurements for bullet velocity with the ballistic pendulum demonstration of momentum conservation. Mechanical construction considerations are outlined. |
| 1C10.62 | time of flight | AJP 51(7),602 | An apparatus measures the time of flight of the projectile fired from the Blackwood pendulum apparatus by timing signals from two microphones. Circuits are included. |
| 1C10.63 | RC bullet timer | E-264 | A capacitor is discharged to a ballistic galvanometer during the time the bullet passes between two gates. Diagrams and theory. |
| 1C10.65 | muzzle velocity - disc | PIRA 1000 | |
| 1C10.65 | muzzle velocity - disk | Mb-22 | An air gun is fired through two rotating cardboard discs separated by some distance. |
| 1C10.65 | muzzle velocity - disk | 7-1.3 | Shooting a bullet through two rotation discs. |
| 1C10.65 | muzzle velocity - disk | M-70 | Fire a bullet through two discs rotating on the same shaft. |
| 1C10.66 | muzzle velocity - strobe photo | AJP 31(7),548 | Sets of contacts two meters apart trigger a strobe which illuminates a spinning wheel marked with a radial line. Measure the angle on the photograph. |
| 1C10.71 | low velocity | M-71 | Project the minute hand of a clock. |
| 1C10.72 | velocity table | M-72 | A table of velocities ranging from continental drift to the speed of light. |