Author Archives: Arbor Scientific

 
Teaching the spectra of visible light can be an engaging classroom activity. But, it’s always been challenging to find ways to go beyond simple passive demonstrations.
 
Hand-held diffraction “rainbow” foil (sometimes mounted in cardboard glasses) can be fun. But students often have difficulty even spotting the spectrum. “I can’t see it!” is the common complaint. And [...]

Happy 306^th Birthday to Leonhard Euler, Swiss Mathematician with two numbers named after him. Think our Euler’s Disk will spin 306 times? There’s only one way to find out!

 

Join us for the 60th annual MSTA Conference this Friday and Saturday at Eastern Michigan University. Stop by booth #204 to test out our newest products or attend a cool tools session presented by some of the best physics teachers from around the state.

Students often underestimate the force of friction despite friction stopping their school buses and cars everyday. In this video 2 phone books are interwoven page by page and the friction between these thin peaces of paper are put to the ultimate test.

Neulog has released software updates for the Mac and Windows machines. Visit our neulog page for download links as well as more info about all 40+ probes available.

Funny Physics cartoon, the swing set Newtonian Demonstrator!

We are exhibiting at the American Association of Physics Teachers winter meeting in New Orleans, LA Jan 6-8. Stop by and see us at Booth # 201.

Andrew Gray, an electrical and computer engineering student at the University of Florida, demonstrates the computer-operated cart he made for his pet parrot. Complete with a four-direction joy stick, infrared sensors to prevent collisions, and bump sensors that automatically reverse the cart if it does hit something, this video is a fun and example of [...]

Paul Falstad's popular ripple tank simulation is now available for your iPhone/iPad and it's free. Now make virtual waves with your finger!

Check out the app here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ripple-tank-free/id453342553?ls=1&mt=8

For non iPhone/iPad owners the ripple tank java applet is also available here:

http://www.falstad.com/ripple/

 

 

 

Here is an article we thought was too good not to share. Mitir Krioukov, physicist based at the University of California San Diego, recently pleaded his way out of a fine for rolling through a stop sign by using the power of mathematics.
Read the article on physicscentral.com to see how he used physics to show the [...]