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Miscellaneous: Slow-Motion Medley (Clip)
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See the subtle, mesmeric effects revealed by slow-motion observation of three iconic exhibits: Circling Wave Umbrella, in which spinning fabric forms pockets of swirling air; Rift Zone, a miniature geothermal landscape created by air bubbling through fine sand; and Vortex, a swirling vortex of water in a hydrodynamic dance with gravity.
Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All
Date: August 30, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, General Science
Keywords: waves, vortex, geothermal, slow motion, rift zone, circling wave umbrella
Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All
Date: August 30, 2011
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, General Science
Keywords: waves, vortex, geothermal, slow motion, rift zone, circling wave umbrella
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Driven: My New Wilderness (Slideshow)
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The Wave Organ is a wave-activated sound sculpture located at the end of a jetty in the San Francisco Bay. It was created by artist Peter Richards and master stonemason George Gonzalez in 1986.
The installation is an unlikely sight: a collection of curbstones and cemetery stones that appear in the Bay like an ancient ruin or a strange dream. In this unusual place of discovery and contemplation, the musical phenomenon is only part of the point.
In this audio slideshow, Peter Richards, now a senior artist at the Exploratorium, shares his inspiration for creating this piece and explores its function as a theater in which many different kinds of human experiences unfold.
Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All
Date: July 16, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art
Keywords: wave organ, peter richards, bay, tides
| Links: | Visit The Wave Organ |
Science Teaching Tips: Seeing the Light (Podcast)
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Newton wasn’t really ready to believe that light was a wave, and so he didn’t see what was in front of his eyes. Staff physicist Paul Doherty tells how to do the same experiment that Newton did back in the 1650s to see the wave nature of light.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: light, wave, newton
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: February 24, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: light, wave, newton
| Links: | Paul Doherty’s Web site |
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AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit 2 (Webcast)
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In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit, as explained by a guest physicist Leon Lederman.
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, rope squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, rope squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,
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AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit (Webcast)
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In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit
as explained by physicist and Nobel laureate Leon Lederman
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, string squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, string squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,
| Real: 35K |
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