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Oil Bottle

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...

Diffraction Pattern

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...

Spectrometer

Version refraction:The next scientific experiment also depends of the wave nature of light. It too depends on refraction. What was neglected in the explanation for the oil bottle is that different wavelengths of light, which corresponds to different colours of light,...

Phase transitions with jumping beads

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...