Experiments and hands-on lab stuff were always my favorite part of learning physics in school. I didn't try bending light with magnets, though. That's a super villain origin story in the making!
True. It would be way more sinister if I could have bent the beams with my mind instead, though. I feel like that's next-level comic book character evil.
That’s a really good and ambitious science project. I took an easier road and went with a known phenomenon—the Doppler Effect—and demonstrated it with my current infatuation (model trains). I didn’t win any prizes but I loved building it. Then, I worked with my daughter on hers and we did phase transformations of H2O, solid, liquid, gas. Again not pushing the edge of science here but building a thing brings concepts home moreso than reading about them. We even did a field trip to the mountains and tried to bring snow home (it did not survive the trip). Either my son was more interested in baseball or 5 years later they weren’t doing the science fair anymore.
I love this. The Doppler effect is really cool too, and of course it was instrumental in determining that the universe is expanding, and just how shockingly damn big it is.
Phase transformations are really incredible too, and those area also important in understanding the very early universe. It's really cool how even the everyday phenomena are universal and fascinating, and I think I just bit off way more than I could chew back then. I was really smart in some spots, but way too dumb in lots of others.
Experiments and hands-on lab stuff were always my favorite part of learning physics in school. I didn't try bending light with magnets, though. That's a super villain origin story in the making!
True. It would be way more sinister if I could have bent the beams with my mind instead, though. I feel like that's next-level comic book character evil.
That’s a really good and ambitious science project. I took an easier road and went with a known phenomenon—the Doppler Effect—and demonstrated it with my current infatuation (model trains). I didn’t win any prizes but I loved building it. Then, I worked with my daughter on hers and we did phase transformations of H2O, solid, liquid, gas. Again not pushing the edge of science here but building a thing brings concepts home moreso than reading about them. We even did a field trip to the mountains and tried to bring snow home (it did not survive the trip). Either my son was more interested in baseball or 5 years later they weren’t doing the science fair anymore.
I love this. The Doppler effect is really cool too, and of course it was instrumental in determining that the universe is expanding, and just how shockingly damn big it is.
Phase transformations are really incredible too, and those area also important in understanding the very early universe. It's really cool how even the everyday phenomena are universal and fascinating, and I think I just bit off way more than I could chew back then. I was really smart in some spots, but way too dumb in lots of others.