Quarknet teachers on the bridge.
Quarknet KSU July 2017
Spacetime
This powerpoint explores using spandex and embroidery hoops to model spacetime.
Modeling Spacetime
Stretching...
PD's Stretching Light handout
Stretching space using a balloon
Expanding balloon Universe
Interferometer 'Make and Take' info
Interferometer info
Pendulums & Wave Machines
Using string and tape you can make a quick and easy pendulum snake, where the different swing rates of the pendulums makes a neat pattern.
Using straws and tape you make a simple wave machine.
Straw waves and Energy Transfer
'Coupled' Pendulums handouts
Coupled Resonant Straws
Beat Frequencies
Magnetism
Hanging magnet faces...
'Microscopic' magnetic domains
Making a Temporary Magnet worksheet
Magnetic field lines
Magnetic Field lines worksheets
Magnetic Shielding device
Magnetic Spinning Pencil
Visual instructions for the Magnetic Spinning Pencil activity
Lights, Colors, and Shadows
Not all Shadows are Black!
2 handouts (Colored Shadows and After Images) for Quarknet 2017
Subtractive Colors
Learn for yourself what the primary colors of pigment should be (and are).
The Pinhole Theater
Create a basic model of the eye, then get into it and use it as a pinhole theater. Learn more about your detector - they eye - by modeling it
Exploratorium's worksheet on the same idea: http://www.exo.net/~emuller/activities/personal_pinhole.pdf
The Pinhole-Viewer
A classroom activity on detector characteristics - specifically how the eye works!
Homopolar motor
A very simple motor!
