2013年3月3日日曜日

Make a coin run in the balloon!

Let's make a coin run in the balloon.

Firstly, you need a balloon and a coin.
The light coin is desired as shown here.
Next, the coin is put into the balloon.
Inflate the balloon and fasten an entrance of it.
Lastly, make the coin run in the balloon as shown in the video.

This fantastic moving is caused by Gyro effect.
Did you know why the coin runs stably?

Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam.

2013年2月24日日曜日

Let’s make a telescope with your kids!

A telescope is expensive tool to observe moon, the stars, and etc.
However we can easily make the telescope. 

At first, we should prepare two magnifying glasses (A, B). 
Glass (A) can attach to the distal position. 
Larger lens (A) is desirable. 


Glass (B) can attach to the proximal position. 
On the other hand, smaller lens (B) is desirable. 


Attach these lenses to rectangle or circled pasteboards as shown in the photo. 



Assemble a telescope as shown here. 


Be in a focus adjusting the difference between two lenses. 
Although you can see it is upside down through the hand-made telescope, I think you are surprised at the ability of it. 
















What did you see through these lenses?

Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam.

Let’s make a couple of coins shine!

Japanese 10-yen makes of copper. 
Old 10-yen coins are often oxidized, and the color is dark blown. 
In this photo, left is new coin in 2012, middle one is in 1974, and right one is in 1966. 

Let’s make these coins shine. 

We prepared two liquids. 
One is squeezed juice of a lemon. 
Other one is vinegar. 


After these coins are sunk in two liquids, wait 3 minutes. 

You can observe the clean coin which was sunk in the lemon juice.
However, the coin in vinegar is unchanged. 

8 hours later 
You can observe the efficacy of vinegar.

24 hours later
Right black blown is a non-sunk coin.
The effect of deoxidization is fantastic.

Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam.

2013年2月20日水曜日

Let’s dissolve an eggshell

Let’s dissolve an eggshell in vinegar water.


















It takes a couple of days until the unshelled egg.
Can you see the air bubble around the egg?


1 day later, the eggshell is dissolved a little.

5 day later, the eggshell is dissolved completely.


Awesome result! The eggshell was dissolved completely.We can observe the beautiful transparent semipermeable membrane.

Look the photo which compared with a raw egg.
The transparent egg was bigger.
When we observe it through the light, the beauty was the best!


Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam!

2013年2月14日木曜日

Let’s attach the inflated balloons on the ceiling

In winter, you can enjoy the electrostatic study with your children. 

Firstly, two balloons were inflated without helium gas. 
Secondly, the balloons rubbed on the carpet to generate static electricity. 

Thirdly, the balloons were attached on the ceiling. 


















 Look! Our exam was succeeded easily, and we had fun. 

 After the exam, a humidifier was turned on. 
 A short time later, two balloons came down. 

 Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam. 

2013年2月13日水曜日

Non-leakage nylon bag?

Impale water filled nylon bag on a sharp pencil! 
However, do not leak the water. 

Can you succeed the exam? 

To tell the truth, it’s easy exam. 

Impale water filled nylon bag on a sharp pencil. 
The pencil can easily pierce the nylon bag, however, the water does not leak at all. 

Why? It’s marvelous. If you pull the pencil out, the water leaks with great force. 
Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam.

2013年2月9日土曜日

Let’s observe an infrared light in your living room

We human can’t observe the infrared light through our eyes.
However, it’s easy to solve this problem.

Let’s use digital camera and a remote controller for TV, DVD player or air conditioner.
The remote controller irradiates the infrared light to send the signals.
At first, when the switch is off, the infrared light is NOT observed.

Secondly, when the switch is ON, your eyes do NOT catch the light.

Thirdly, when the switch is ON, digital camera can detect the light, and you can observe it.

It's very interesting.
There is the invisible light in our world.

Hope you and your kids enjoy the exam