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Tom Tompkins
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Avalanche
Does the sand all pile up in the same way?
Bicycle Wheel Gyro
Tilt a spinning bicycle wheel while you’re sitting in a swivel chair and—surprise—you’ll start spinning in circles, too. You can also witness the same phenomenon here by hanging a spinning wheel from its axle.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Diffraction Shadows
Shadows made with laser light have light and dark bands.
Downhill Race
Believe it or not, when objects roll downhill, it’s not their weight or size that determines their speed—it’s how their weight is distributed.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Newton's Prism
Prisms separate white light into colors, then recombine these colors back into white light.
