Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Electric Circuits are an essential topic that cover the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, the flow of current and the concept of voltage. In...
Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Explore the science of car crashes at classroom.iihs.org Featured Products Newton’s Cradle is a popular device that shows the energy transfer between moving spheres and a...
Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Explore the science of car crashes at classroom.iihs.org The swinging bucket of water has been a teacher favorite for centuries. Teachers typically swing the bucket in...
A Better way of Demonstrating Rotational Inertia
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Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction & Interference...That's COOL!
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Principia Mathematica: Let's Revisit Newton's Laws
Calories From a Heat Pack
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Five Demonstrations for the First Day of Class!
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Three Right Hand Rules of Electromagnetism
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Demonstration of The Photoelectric Effect!
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Featured Products Demonstration of The Photoelectric Effect! In 1905 Albert Einstein had his miracle year, publishing 5 papers, including the Special Theory of Relativity, the Mathematical...
Powering Imagination and Creativity OneCar at a Time
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Cool Stuff Demos with Violet Lasers
If you are talking about optics in the classroom and students are learning about how light waves behave, take a look at the blue-violet laser, which produces wavelengths at 405 nm. Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when...