Science
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- How Electricity Works
- Features detailed information on the subject such as basic concepts, units, circuits, generators, and uses.
- 482
- How Electromagnets Work
- Information about what makes this key part of motors, tape decks, VCRs and other devices.
- 483
- How Metal Detectors Work
- Explains their uses and the electromagnetic properties that allow these units pinpoint and identify their target.
- 484
- Science Snacks About Electricity
- A set of very simple experiments, each one with details on materials, assembly, how to do ,and explanation of the key principles featured by Exploratorium.
- 485
- Science Snacks About Magnetism
- A set of very simple experiments, featured by Exploratorium, each one with details on materials, assembly, how to do, and an explanation of the physical laws involved.
- 489
- Iso/Thixotropy
- This experiment demonstrates iso- and thixo-tropy properties of certain emulsions (fluid mixtures).
- 490
- Newton's Law
- Offers a discussion in simple language. Includes jokes as well as explanation of gravitational formula.
- 491
- Your Weight on Other Worlds
- From the Exploratorium, an interactive calculator that will determine a person's weight on another planet.
- 492
- Color and Color Vision
- Explains additive and subtractive colour mixing, the mixing of wavelengths, Newton's dispersion of white light to show the colours of the rainbow.
- 493
- Exploring the Atmosphere With Lidars
- Learn about this type of laser, which is similar to radar but uses light instead of radio waves. Features descriptions of applications in measuring short and long term climate change indicators such as temperature, ozone, and ocean waves. Includes charts.
- 495
- Light and Optics: Online Meteorology Guide
- Introduces optical effects resulting from light interaction with air, dust and haze particles, ice crystals and water droplets.
- 496
- Science Snacks About Light
- A set of very simple experiments featured by Exploratorium, each one with details on materials, assembly, how can be done, and an explanation of the physical laws involved.
- 497
- Skytopia - Colour and Light Trivia
- Amusing guide lists various oddities about colour and light. Find trivia on 3D, mirrors, light bulbs, and contradictions about the perception of colour.
- 498
- The Reflection and Refraction of Light
- Uses geometry to predict reflection from plane and spherical mirrors, and looks at how speed and wavelength varies with different media.