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Pressure Nicole demonstrates atmospheric pressure keeping water in an upside down jar. Jim pushes a large needle throuh air-filled balloons and not a one pops! Nicole pushes a pencil through a water-filled baggie and not a drop is spilled! Curt demonstrates atmospheric pressure crushing a can that has had hot steam quickly cooled. Curt demonstrates atmospheric pressure pushing an egg inside a flask that has been heated then allowed to cool. |
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Pressure, Inertia and The Bed-of_Nails Jim takes a sledge hammer to Leah who puts her trust in her knowledge of Physics. |
Sound Leah demonstrates how sound travels in a medium by putting a loud alarm in a vacuum jar. |
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Angular Momentum Conservation of angular momentum is demonstrated using a bycycle wheel and rotating chair. |
Bernoulli Nicole demonstrates Bernoulli's principle using a hair dryer and two ping pong balls. John explains Bernoulli's principle by (with the help of Nicole and Nick) spraying toilet paper out over the audience using a leaf blower. |
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Pendulum Jim and Robert Demonstrate energy principles using a pendulum. |
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Inertia Leah uses a broom to quickly knock a tray out from under 4 eggs resulting in the eggs falling into containers that were under the tray. |
Jim does several demos on sound, including interference, beats and the doppler effect as is shown here. |
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Resonace Nicole shows how beatuiful musics can be made by cutting copper pipes to the right length. |
Momentum Jim rides the Rocket Cart. Notice the plume emitted from the fire extinguisher as he takes off. In the second picture...well...sometimes things don't go according to plan. |
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Hovercraft After the show the kids take turns getting rides on the hovercraft. |
Waves Kids get to observe the wave machine up close after the show. |
