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/sci/, I need a fucking amazing physics experiment.
I really want to encourage these kids.
What would you recommend? It should be damn impressive. It's due tomorrow, though.
Also, it has to be made with things I have lying around the house, so it's quite problematic.
I have like 50 balloons, if it works for you.
Sorry for being such a humongous, ungrateful and late faggot. I love you faggots.

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bakingsoda vinegar volcano
egg into a bottle
freezing water in a glass bottle
aluminum foil into draino (you can use your ballons for this)

>> No.5755291

>>5755282
potato cannon!

>> No.5755308

Wouldn't the first and last experiments qualify as chemistry experiments?

>> No.5755309

>>5755308
Directed to
>>5755284


>>5755291
Much too complex to make at 10 45 pm, haha.

>> No.5755310

>>5755282
put some aluminum foil in the microwave and talk about waves

>> No.5755315

>/sci/, I need a fucking amazing physics experiment.
>I really want to encourage these kids.

There are websites with lists of easy "experiments" to do. All you need to do is try to find them. You say you want to encourage people, you can start by encouraging yourself to try harder.

>> No.5755316

build a background radiation detector out of a glassy box, isopropanol alcohol and dry ice

>> No.5755317

Ethanol bottle rocket?

>> No.5755318

>>5755315
>>5755315
I have, but they all seem so incredibly simple and kiddish.
These faggots need to love science, son.

>> No.5755357

>>5755318
they'll love science if you can teach it well enough so that they understand it. not if you pull stupid gimmicks to try and "motivate" them. Physics is inherently awesome, it's just difficult to understand and people get frustrated and discouraged because shit teachers can't explain the concepts well to them.

>> No.5755361

How about that shit with tinfoil and ammonia or bleach or whatever in a soda bottle?
Everyone loves explosions.

>> No.5755378

>>5755361
I had one of those building pressure up for awhile in a milk jug, it blew and popped the maintenance man for my apartment complex in the thigh, scared the shit out of him.

>> No.5755385

Measuring the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave?

>> No.5755522

Double slit experiment. This one can be interactive, do the interference calculations for them and predict the interference pattern. They can go up to a wall and measure the distance between constructive peaks.

You just need two slits on something dark and a laser pointer mounted on something. One way to do it is to spray paint a piece of glass black and then scratch thin slits in it. There are many ways to make the slits though.

The math is really simple
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/slits.html

>> No.5755525

Speaker and corn starch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU

>> No.5755528

>>5755525
You don't need a frequency generator, just use dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoB0pM2VASg

>> No.5755534

Blow up a trash can full of ping pong balls with liquid nitrogen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldgp3Ton7R4

>> No.5755550

>>5755528
It's like i'm watching an 80s goo monster horror film

>> No.5755552

Schrodingers Cat, let them bet on whether the cat lives or dies

>> No.5755555

>>5755282
Corn syrup, sunlight, and two polarized lenses

Not amazing, but certainly neat

>> No.5755557

Neodymium magnet in a copper pipe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-A3RryOC8