Speaker
Ms
Stefanie Sandbacka
Description
The Åbo Akademi Physics show, began in the mid 90's (although sporadic student initiatives occurred already in the 70's-80's), when the idea of visiting upper secondary schools giving them a well organized lecture on physics studies and interesting demonstrations. During the years the backbone of the show has been experiments with liquid nitrogen (including e.g. the Meissner effect and freezing of roses, rubber gloves and a bell made of lead etc. etc.), various discharge experiments using a Whimshurst's machine and the classic bike wheel gyroscope.At the same time we have tried to look into experiments which initially look very simple, almost trivial, but which in the end displays some fundamental property of nature. The idea is to show that science is all around us, and things can be explored for those with a curious mind. This works perhaps for some in the audience and gives a nice contrast to the "big science" that e.g. superconductivity represents. This "science using everyday tools", is what we would like to discuss in our presentation.
