Outreach

Some of our outreach activities are showcased on this page. The experiments were all designed by our group to let the audience experience the natural phenomenon and physical principles that govern our everyday lives by letting them touch and feel these processes.

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Fire Tornado

A fire tornado, also known as firenado, is a phenomenon that occurs in nature when wind and fire meet under specific conditions.
Luckily, in an educational setting the conditions can be mimicked. The fire tornado can demonstrate the effects of local wind/weather (the fire visualizing the invisible air), for example in the formation of tornados, as the fire creates a local low pressure cell. 

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Coriolis Carousel

The Coriolis Carousel let's its riders experience motion in a circular/rotating frame of reference while showcases the limitations of observation within such a system. This will help the audience answer questions such as why the longest straight path of the ocean looks curved?. 

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Sticky Situations

Interactions of molecules are what define almost every possible aspect of our daily lives. Sometimes, these molecular interactions can create spectacular visual effects. The "Sticky Situations" series of experiments show and let the audience experience non-Newtonian fluids (Oobleck), liquids that mix or cannot mix, and liquids that are self-siphoning. 

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