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Description: Show that the momentum of the steam is countered by the spinning of the Hero's Engine. Instructions: Place a small amount of water in the bottom of the flask. Suspend it over a flame. When the water begins to boild, the steam will be driven out of the arms giving the apparatus a torque. Hazards: This demo WILL BURN YOU if you are not careful. It shoots steam out in all directions. You should try this demonstration in the demoroom before using it for the first time in a classroom. Parts: hero's engine, burner, water Purchased/Built: purchased Quant. in Demo Room: 1 Demo References Hilton H-5a.1 A suspended round bottom flask with two nozzles. The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations Disc 15-07 The flask rotates on a horizontal axis. Sutton M-183 Cylindrical boiler pivots on a vertical axis with tangential pressure relief nozzles. Freier and Anderson Hn-5 A model of Hero's engine. Meiners 13-7.11 A simple Hero's engine made of a tin can. The American Journal of Physics AJP 46(7),773 Plans for a machine shop built Hero's engine.
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