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LEDs

Throughout this escape room, small LEDs were used, particularly in the lip stick torches. As with any light sources, the basic origin of the photons is an excited electron emits some of its energy in the form of light. This is also indicated by the name as LED is...

Scattering

In another puzzle, you had to use either balls or water to determine the amount of slits in a certain box. It should have been visible that the interaction with the slits works differently for water waves when compared to normal balls. The normal scattering with balls...

Floating Graphite

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...

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,...