100 Award-Winning Science Fair ProjectsScience is at work everywhere - in the kitchen, up in the sky down in the ground, and all around us in plants, animals, machines, even the mind. Here are 100 ways to show how it works and come out tops at school project time. - Stir up chemical magic - Turn a copper pot green with oxidation - Prove that computers emit radio waves - Show off medieval ballistics - - Create virtual 3-D with a polarised lens - Simulate rock abrasion - - Chemists & Cooks - Earth & Sky - Mechanics & Motion - Sparks & Waves - - Light & Sound - Eye & Mind - Plants & Animals - Stars & Planets - * Serious learning about real science is hidden in this away-from-school entertainment for 8-12 year olds. Impress your science teacher! |
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... magnetic material . A magnetic domain is a molecular " neighbor- hood " where all the molecules point in the same direction . You can think of a magnetic domain as a tiny magnet that exists inside materials that are either magnets ...
... magnetic material . A magnetic domain is a molecular " neighbor- hood " where all the molecules point in the same direction . You can think of a magnetic domain as a tiny magnet that exists inside materials that are either magnets ...
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... magnets . But is a magnet's attrac- tive power its only useful feature , or could it be that what a magnet doesn't attract can be equally important ? This project explores weak magnetic attraction . In creating a simple eddy - current ...
... magnets . But is a magnet's attrac- tive power its only useful feature , or could it be that what a magnet doesn't attract can be equally important ? This project explores weak magnetic attraction . In creating a simple eddy - current ...
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... magnetic materials . This is why you froze the aluminum overnight . As the horseshoe magnet spins , it creates magnetic eddy currents above the aluminum pan . In turn , these currents produce a cyclonic magnetic field above the aluminum ...
... magnetic materials . This is why you froze the aluminum overnight . As the horseshoe magnet spins , it creates magnetic eddy currents above the aluminum pan . In turn , these currents produce a cyclonic magnetic field above the aluminum ...
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