Thursday, February 18, 2010

Steve Spangler teaches how to make square bubbles

Square bubbles sounds impossible, ours brains connect the word bubble with the spherical shape. However this video shows how to produce square bubbles using a science trick.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Flutter Effect - Dynamic Aeroelasticity


Flutter Effect is a self-feeding mechanism in which aerodynamic forces on a object (This case an airplane wing) are coupled with the natural mode of vibration of this object to produce a periodic and, sometimes, destructive motion.
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Lets pump...pumpkins


This video shows a pumpkins cannon. It uses compressed air to accelerates the pumpkins through out a long pipe. As bigger the pipe, more time the pumpkin is accelerated, so higher is the inicial velocity. At a 45 degress angle the pumpkin reach the maximum horizontal distance.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Drop a egg from 2 meter high without break it


This video shows how to do it and how it is possible

Nitrocellulose - the gun cotton


Nitrocellulose, an explosive similar to nitroglicerin but, instead of glicerin, it has cellulosis on its composition. It is not sensitive to impact just to heat.
It burns so fast that there is no time to exchange heat with the hand

Pascal Principle bracks the bottle


This tick uses the pascal principle to break up the bottom of a bottle! You'll need some practice to do that. Warning, the broken glass can be very dangerous!

Make ferrofluid using household materials


This video shows how to make ferrofluid using household materials

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