Physics Experiments

DIY Photovoltaic Solar cell

Find out how to build your own solar cell, it may not solve the world's energy problem, but it is made from recycled components.

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Water Pressure

Do a classic experiment to show why dams have to be so high and submarines so strong.

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Pepper's Ghost

Confuse your friends with ghostly candles, and find out how it is related to Victorian theater and fighter aircraft

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Exploding Film Canisters

Find out how to make a mini-explosion using a film canister, and how your explosion relates to real explosives, like gunpowder.

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Swapping Sounds

Completely confuse your sense of direction using a couple of hose pipes and some funnels...

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Cycle Centrifuge

Use a bike and some salad dressing to find out how blood is separated and how nuclear fuel is made.

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Build your own airbrush - Applying Bernoulli

Find out how to build an airbrush to produce beautifully smooth paint finishes, and what it has to do with a car engine.

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Margarine Planets

Use a tub of ordinary margarine to model how a planet forms, and to explain why we get different types of meteorite.

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Root vegetable cannon - DIY potato gun

Build yourself a root vegetable based cannon using just a biro, a hacksaw and a potato.

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Echolocation

Build your own primitive sonar with a computer and a microphone, and find out how it relates to medical ultrasound.

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Flying Protractors - the power of ground effect

Make stationery glide serenely across a tabletop and find out how it relates to some of the largest aircraft ever built.

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Bendy and Brittle Bones

Bone is an incredible material as for its weight it can be stronger than steel. Find out why it is so strong with this kitchen science.

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Weighing Buoyancy

Does a glass get heavier if you put your finger in the water? Find out in this experiment.

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Falling Mugs

Scare all your friends by dropping a mug with seemingly nothing to stop it hitting the floor, and find out what it has to do with ice skating.

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Recycling Paper

Take some of those old bits of paper and recycle them to make some new. It is far more fun than buying recycled paper in a shop.

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