List of scientific demonstrations

Physics

Balsa wood bridge — demonstrates compressive strength and tensile strength, teaches engineering thinking
Egg drop competition — demonstrates compressive strength, teaches engineering thinking
Hand boiler — demonstrates vapour-liquid equilibrium and simple heat engine principles
Newton's cradle — demonstrates elastic collision, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy
Plate trick or Dirac belt trick — demonstrates spinors and the double cover of SO(3) by SU(2)
Prince Rupert's Drop — demonstrates supercooling and tensile stress
Self-siphoning beads — demonstrates momentum, energy and inertia
Water rocket — demonstrates conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, the gas laws and basic rocketry
Franklin bells — demonstrate electric charges
Oxford Electric Bell — an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since
Wimshurst machine — an electrostatic generator

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