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Yet another cool experiment inspired by Physics Girl. Simon tries stacking balls to increase the bounce of the top ball (that gets extra energy from the bottom ball/balls). Simon’s second … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Ball Stacking
Simon learned about this experiment from Physics Girl and tried several variations with a number of plastic plates and frisbees. He even got kicked out of a fashionable pool in … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Vortices
Although vacation is a vague notion in our family, where days are devoted to doing favourite things 365 days a year. For Simon, that means that his days are filled … Continue reading Looking back at the vacation
Simon, let’s go to the beach, let’s get your shoes on! What’s that on your foot? – Oh, I was just building the Standard Model of Elementary Particles. Simon is … Continue reading The Standard Model
Simon created three optical illusions in Processing (Java) playing with color. For better effect, you can download Simon’s code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/colorIllusions The Part 1 video is about the first … Continue reading Optical Illusions in Processing (Java)
Simon in seventh heaven programming an optical illusion in Processing (Java) and watching Physics Girl, what more can you ask for?
Inspired by the Veritasium channel, Simon tests throwing a Slinky nd watching it collapse together and only then fall to the ground. He then ties a tennis ball to the … Continue reading The Slinky Experiment
Simon having fun making antibubbles – bubbles that have water inside them instead of air. Learned this from a Physics Girl video and this online instruction: https://www.antibubble.org/page2.html
Simon took a cylinder and put a chalk inside. When the cylinder rolls, what will the chalk do? Will it move and how will it move? And more importantly, why? … Continue reading Object inside rolling cylinder
Here Simon placed the primary colors in the next to the secondary ones (that he mixed using only the three primary colors) so that the colors that are absolute opposites … Continue reading Color Opposites
If you put a cereal flake in a bowl of water you can steer it with a strong magnet. The magnets above aren’t strong enough, but the really powerful ones … Continue reading How much iron is there in your favorite cereal?
Here Simon tried to induce a magnetic field by allowing electric current to go through a conductor that is normally not magnetic (copper wire). The green stick is a magnet … Continue reading Experimenting with electromagnetism
Geeks out of the box 