Re: Junior High Electrical Demonstration

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

Dan,

I seems to just depend on the school and the area. Where I live, I have been
welcomed at every school. So keep trying different schools, it's really fun
doing demos.

Jonathan

www.madlabs.info

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Subject: RE: Junior High Electrical Demonstration


 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > I was going to do a small demo for a school in my area for a friend of
mine
 > who is a science teacher, but the school immediately shot it down due to
 > liability reasons.
 > Sign of the times I guess . . .
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >
 >  > Hi everybody,
 >  > I just got done with doing a demonstration for the 8th grade science
 >  > classes at my local junior high school. I got to get out of
 >  > my classes at
 >  > my school (yes!) and bring a couple of my things over. I
 >  > brought my 6 inch
 >  > coil (it now shoots about 3ft sparks!) my mini coil (awww... cute!) a
 >  > jacobs ladder, and a small electromagnetic ring launcher. I
 >  > had a lot of
 >  > fun showing them some basics such as conductors and
 >  > insulators ("Here kid,
 >  > take this yardstick and wave it through the sparks of this
 >  > small coil.
 >  > Don't feel anything? That's called an insulator. Now try this
 >  > copper rod...
 >  > he he he) we also played around with electromagnetics, we lit up some
 >  > florescent tubes, showed resistance by heating up an aluminum
 >  > ring and
 >  > tossing it to someone, then watching them drop it when the! y
 >  > realize how
 >  > much it had heated up. =D Then, at the end of the demo, I
 >  > lined the whole
 >  > class (those who were brave enough!) had them all hold hands,
 >  > one end of
 >  > the line was holding on to a metal door frame, the other end
 >  > was holding
 >  > the copper rod and moved it in to the mini coil sparks... it
 >  > was enough to
 >  > make them jump a little. =D It was a blast. The best part was
 >  > waiting for
 >  > the next class between periods, and watching people walk by,
 >  > stop, then
 >  > take a second look at all of the bizarre looking stuff
 >  > sitting in there. =D
 >  > I just thought I'd share what I've been doing these past
 >  > days... By the
 >  > way, if any of you ever get the chance to do some demo for a
 >  > school or
 >  > whatever, be sure to do it. It's great fun for you and
 >  > whoever participates
 >  > in it. See ya!
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > -Chris
 >  >
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