by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In one of the puzzles, you had to let a small plate of a certain material float across a train track to hit a sensor. This only worked for precisely one of the the plates, namely the one made of graphite. Some may have already guessed that magnets were at work, which...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In another puzzle, a secret message on the inside of a bottle only became visible upon tilting the bottle and thus displacing the liquid. The core of this effect is the index of refraction. The secret number, which is made of glass is only visible under normal...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
When you put different plates into the lamp, the spacing between the light points changed. This has to do with interference. Light propagates through space like a wave and can therefore interfere like a wave. When two waves interfere constructively, they result in a...
by Nico Aegerter | Jul 25, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In this puzzle, you could observe that when the speaker was only emitting at small frequencies, all beads jumped from one side to the next. This has very much to do with the interaction between the beads. While initially distributed nearly evenly, one side will always...
