Stations-ID: A007

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Stations-ID: A001

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Stations-ID: D084

🇬🇧 English instruction:

If you put the pieces together in the right order, the arch will be so stable that you can stand on it.

Which point of the arch can carry the most weight?

• Can you construct the arch without using a template?

• Which part is only present once?

• After constructing the arch, try pushing the pieces inwards slowly. With which parts is this possible, with which impossible?

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Stations-ID: D091

🇬🇧 English instruction:

Two people sit across from each other in the carousel, tossing a ball back and forth between them.

The rest of the group sets the carousel in motion. Try tossing the ball back and forth again.

• Where does the ball fly when the carousel is turning?

• Where does the ball fly if the carousel is turning in the opposite direction?

• Which flight path would an observer see, looking at the carousel from the top?

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Stations-ID: D005

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Stations-ID: D081

🇬🇧 English instruction:

Sit on the chair and turn.

Spread your arms or pull them in close to your body.

To amplify the effect, use the weights.

• What happens when you pull your arms in close while the chair is rotating?

• What happens when you spread them?

• Ask a partner to sit in the chair and hold the weights.

Set the chair in motion. Repeat the experiment, this time your partner spreads his arms.

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Stations-ID: D065

Stations-ID: D032

Stations-ID: D007

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Stations-ID: D066

🇬🇧 English instruction:

How can you build a bridge over a river, using only planks that are too short to
reach the other side? Without tools or any other help, a bridge, able to carry
weight, is to be constructed.
• Build a bridge of six planks.
• Expand this bridge by four planks.
• How big can your bridge become?
• Can you make a bridge using exactly eight planks?
• Is an expansion with three boards also possible?
• Which structural element do all bridges have in common?

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Stations-ID: D061

Stations-ID: D064

🇬🇧 English instruction:

The ring is spun on the dish. How long will it spin?

• How does the ring move?
• Which different movements can you observe?
• What do you hear?
• What do you think how heavy the ring is?

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Stations-ID: D071

Stations-ID: D067

🇬🇧 English instruction:

You can find different discs of wood and aluminium in front of you.

• Take one of the discs and let it fall from above through the tower. What can you observe?
• Do the discs fall differently?
• Are the discs magnetic?
• What are the properties of aluminium and copper?

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Stations-ID: D072

🇬🇧 English instruction:

The inflatable ball foats in an airstream.

What happens, when the source of the airstream is slowly tilted to one side and brought back to it’s original position?

• How does the ball move in the airstream?
• Try pushing the ball out of the airstream carefully, what do you fee?
• What do you feel when you hold the ball next to the airstream?

The Bernoulli family produced a line of important mathematicians in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of them was Swiss-born Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782). Aside from his work on gambling strategies, he founded the field of fluid mechanics by describing the behaviour of flowing liquids and gasses. Because of the importance of his findings, the phenomenon of the ‘Floating Sphere’ is also called ‘the Bernoulli Effect“.

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Stations-ID: D062

🇬🇧 English instruction:

The Vortex Cannon makes beautiful smoke-rings that drift through the entire hall.

• What do you feel, when you stand right in front of the ‘Cannon’?

• Observe the smoke-rings drifting through the air. Is their shape and speed always the same?

• What happens, when a quarter of the opening of the Vortex Cannon is closed, what happens, when it is half closed?

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Stations-ID: D086

🇬🇧 English instruction:

Start and endpoint are the same for both spheres.

One of the spheres rolls along an inclined plane, the other takes a longer way.

• Which will reach it’s goal first?

• Which sphere arrives at it’s destination first, which arrives quicker?

• What would happen, if the spheres were of different sizes?

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