Demonstration

A Wee Bit of Science

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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How much water do you need to drink?
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Centripetal Force

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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A bucket of water upside-down over your head. Not the smartest thing ever? Keep watching…
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Sound

  • 22 Jun, 2011
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The principles of sound, explained and demonstrated.
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Ice Lift

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Lifting an ice cube using string and… salt?
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A Bit of Light Relief

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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A group of refraction demonstrations involving glasses of water.
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Magic Pencil…. or not?

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Why a pencil appears to bend when partly-immersed in water.
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Bang! - Chemistry in Everyday Life

  • 21 Jun, 2011
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Metals reacting with hydrochloric acid, and a fizzy explosion.
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Circuit Breakers

  • 15 Jun, 2011
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Chickens! Electricity! Less unpleasant than it sounds!
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Under Pressure!

  • 15 Jun, 2011
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Energy transfer, pressure, and the classic egg-in-a-bottle trick.
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The Great Cheddar Cheese Mystery

  • 14 Jun, 2011
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Is Cheddar Gorge really made of cheese? Ignoring the fact that nobody thinks it is, this team investigate anyway!
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Newton’s Laws

  • 14 Jun, 2011
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One rocket, three laws of motion, one tripod only slightly damaged. Result!
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The X Statics

  • 14 Jun, 2011
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Electrostatics, talent-show style.
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Balloonium Experimento 2

  • 10 Jun, 2011
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So you’ve got a *giant* balloon, what are you going to do with it? Wallop people with it, in the name of physics. Obviously.
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Potty Putty

  • 10 Jun, 2011
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What’s going on in the structure of silly putty that makes it behave the way it does?
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Alkali Metals and Reactivity

  • 10 Jun, 2011
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Reactivity — demonstrations with lithium (meh) and sodium (woah!)
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Cool Beans — Digestion

  • 10 Jun, 2011
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Bananas, mushy peas, rice pudding — it can only be an horrifically messy digestion demo.
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Fireworks

  • 10 Jun, 2011
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A presentation about the chemistry of flame colours.
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The pH Scale According to Gordon and Simon

  • 07 Jun, 2011
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Acid and alkali react together and make… a foaming mess.
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Modelling Electricity

  • 07 Jun, 2011
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A classroom model of an electrical circuit, captured on film for your viewing delight.
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Methane

  • 07 Jun, 2011
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What happens when methane burns, in theory and practice.
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