Breadcrumbs
Simulation of the greenhouse effect with silvered and unsilvered glass bottles.
Heat energy readily escapes from a clear glass flask, but is trapped inside a silvered flask which rapidly heats up.
Two 2L flat bottom Florence...
Nitrogen dioxide is produced by an electric discharge in air and, when sprayed with a water mist, produces acid rain.
Some of the most irritating and dangerous pollutants in our atmosphere are gases such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen...
Hot fluid rises, cool fluid sinks. Here is a desktop convection cell modeling the processes in the atmosphere, oceans or stellar interiors.
The currents are set up in rheoscopic fluid[1] (basically minute aluminum flakes in...
Simulation of atmospheric scattering and polarization of sunlight using slide projector and aquarium containing milky water.
Video of our demo in action https://youtu.be/y0dhFCsKomk
Unpolarized light passing through a fluid is scattered...
With an air pressure of 105 Nm-2 at sea level, even a heavy duty oil drum will be crushed if it has nothing inside to balance the pressure.
Video of our demo in action https://youtu.be/VOSgHIklv6w
The screw cap on the drum is...
A model of molecular motion and pressure using practice golf balls.
The kinetic energy of gas molecules bouncing off a surface causes pressure.
Increasing the molecules' speeds increases the pressure and the volume of the gas.
Pla...
