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List Of Science Demonstrations
This is a list of scientific demonstrations used in educational demonstrations and popular science lectures. Physics * Balsa wood bridge — demonstrates compressive strength and tensile strength, teaches engineering thinking * Egg drop competition — demonstrates compressive strength, teaches engineering thinking * Hand boiler — demonstrates vapour-liquid equilibrium and simple heat engine principles * Newton's cradle — demonstrates elastic collision, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy * Gauss gun * Plate trick or Dirac belt trick — demonstrates spinors and the double cover of SO(3) by SU(2) * Prince Rupert's Drop — demonstrates supercooling and tensile stress * Self-siphoning beads — demonstrates momentum, energy and inertia * Water rocket — demonstrates conservation of momentum, conservation of energy The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scientific Demonstrations
A scientific demonstration is a procedure carried out for the purposes of demonstrating scientific principles, rather than for hypothesis testing or knowledge gathering (although they may originally have been carried out for these purposes). Most scientific demonstrations are simple laboratory demonstrations intended to demonstrate physical principles, often in a surprising or entertaining way. They are carried out in schools and universities, and sometimes in public demonstrations in popular science lectures and TV programs aimed at the public. Many scientific demonstrations are chosen for their combination of educational merit and entertainment value, which is often provided by dramatic phenomena such as explosions. Public scientific demonstrations were a common occurrence in the Age of Enlightenment, and have long been a feature of the British Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which date back to 1825. In the television era, scientific demonstrations have featured in scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |