Stations-ID: A002

General Instructions:

• Can you stand straight? Check yourself and the others, in what angle are you standing to the floor?
• Walk slowly in a circle. Pay attention to how it feels! Is it the same that your eyes see?

Marble scale:

• Position the moveable wooden channel straightly. You can check if you’re right by placing a marble on it.

Perpencicular pendulum:

• The pendulum points straight down after being taken out of it’s holder.
• Using a wooden marble, give a guess as to which one of the boxes the tip of the pendulum will point at.

Marble Track:

• Where does the marble have to start to be able to traverse the whole marble track?

Not only in Jena can you find leaning houses. A timbred house in Ulm dating from the 14th century is advertized as the most crooked hotel in the world. The Oberhafenkantine in Hamburg, the old fulling mill in Wernigenrode and the ‘leaning houses’ in Idstein and Großbottwar are also clearly out of balance.

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Stations-ID: A008

Instruction:

Two people stand in the opposite corner of the room. The others watch from outside the house. Which of the two people inside the house seem taller?
• Examine the shape of the room. What angles and surfaces can you see?
• Which of the two people is standing closer to you? Which one looks bigger?
This construction is based on the work of the American optician Adelbert Ames who probably built on Hermann Helmholtz’s ideas. This optical illusion finds a very practical use in the film industry; In the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films, the scenes involving hobbits and humans where shot in trapeze-shaped, distorted sets to create the illusion of difference in size.

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