Stations-ID: A014

English instruction:

Press your hands on the different boards. Compare the different surfaces. What do you notice? Which boards are warmer, which are cooler? Is it a sunny day?

Stations-ID: D002

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A normal pendulum swings back and forth Steadily and predictably.

But what happens when you attatch a second pendulum to it?

• What do you think, will both double pendulums move in the same way?

• Hold the longer pendulum and set the short one in motion.

Now let the longer pendulum go. What happens?

Based on his calculations in the field of astronomy, the French physician and mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) posed the question if all physical phenomena are predictable. In his bestseller “Science and Method” (1912) he gave the following answer: „It is possible, that small differences in the initial circumstances lead to big differences in the results (…) prediction becomes impossible and we are left with a random phenomenon.“

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Stations-ID: D007

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Stations-ID: D087

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Stations-ID: D098

English instruction:

Light-machine: Turn the red crank wheel. Now press the three red buttons in turn. What happens? What difference is there between the 3 lamps? Do you also notice a difference when cranking?

Stations-ID: D089

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Wooden channels adhere to a metal wall with magnets.
• Who will build the most clever, the fastest or the slowest marble track?

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Stations-ID: D097

English instruction:

Pumping heat :
Turn the red crank wheel for a while. Now grasp the two copper coils with one hand each. Do you notice a difference? Where do you think it comes from?

Stations-ID: D086

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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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