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Inverse Square Law: How Does Distance Affect the Spreading of Light?

You’re sitting under a tree on a sunny day. There are bright circles of light of light from the sun making chaotic patterns on the grass. Where do you suppose they come from? How does distance affect ...

Changing the Period of a Pendulum

Imagine that your plane has crash landed on a desert island. You don’t have a working clock, so you can’t tell when afternoon teatime is! You set out to make yourself a clock. The plane was carrying a ...

How to Make a PVC Pipe Instrument

Sound is a neat thing. It’s really just vibrations in the air, but with it you can hear music, speech, movements, actions, trains, planes, and cars. Sound is often measured by its frequency. Frequency ...

What Direction Should Solar Panels Face?

Imagine you’re installing a new array of solar panels for an energy-conscious company in California. You want the largest amount of sunlight possible to reach the panels. The panels are fixed, so you ...

Wave-Particle Duality of Light

Quantum Mechanics. Something that scientists in movies and prestigious universities investigate, right? Not necessarily! Do this experiment and you’ll be able to see quantum mechanics in action by exp ...

Lenz's Law: Magnet Through a Copper Tube

It is 1834, and you have just heard of this marvelous new phenomenon called eddy currents. Some fellow named Lenz discovered them, and you’re curious if you can find out something special about them y ...

How Do Different Search Engines Work?

The Internet is big. To give an example, 3 exabytes (one exabyte is 1,073,741,824 gigabytes) of data are generated every day.Recent estimates of the total amount of data in the world put it at 300 or ...

How Does a Compass Work?

You are lost in the wilderness. You know there is a highway several miles north of you, but you don’t know which direction north is. Luckily, you have a magnet with you! How can you find your way usin ...

How to use Colored Filters to Send Secret Messages

Have you ever wondered why objects have different colors? Have you also ever wondered what it would be like to work as a secret agent and send secret messages to people? Conduct this experiment to fin ...

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