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Atomic and quantum physics

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Chance Happenings

Capturing randomness – with dice. Four faces of these dice are white. The other two faces show a red circle. After each roll, the dice with the red circle…

10433 Haupt

Cloud Chamber

Particle Zoo: Ever seen a muon? Electrically charged particles are not directly visible, even in the diffusion cloud chamber. However, alpha and beta…

11036 Phänomen

Multi-Color Luminglas

Glowing spider webs to lightning storms. "Multi-Color Luminglas™️" is a sandwich of glass plates filled with glass beads coated with phosphor. The interior…

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Particle or Wave

Particle or wave? Both are correct. As an electromagnetic wave, light spreads out with all the typical characteristics of a wave. At the same time, it behaves…

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Plasma columns

Influence the clouds of mist. A red glowing plasma is generated in two glass columns by an electric field. If you touch the column, you change the electric…

11904 Haupt

Seeing atoms

Ion Trap: One of a kind worldwide! Invisible particles, which we otherwise know only from textbook illustrations, become visible here. In an ion trap,…

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Spectra

Elements and their colors. Distinguishing individual hues from a color impression: it’s as challenging as identifying individual instruments in an orchestra.…

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White Plasma Plume

Art with the fourth state of matter. Beautiful, this work by Wayne Strattman. Elegant, the glowing white plumes in “White Plasma Plumes” as they move.…

Workshop-Links
Sprunghaft

Erratic nature – excitation of atoms

Physics lessons in mainstream school education were extremely limited during the 20th century – especially when it came to expensive and complex experiments.…

Atome sehen 2

Have you ever seen an atom? – Atomic dimensions

Physics lessons in mainstream school education were extremely limited during the 20th century – especially when it came to expensive and complex experiments.…

Strahlende Einsichten

Radiant insights – radioactivity

CERN in Geneva, the catastrophe in Fukushima, new radiotherapies for treating cancer – atomic and nuclear physics are constantly discovering new findings that…

Natürliche Strahlung

Radioactivity in everyday life – natural radiation

Radioactivity is not only in nuclear power plants, but also in common foods like mushrooms and dietary salt, in normal fertilizer for roses and, naturally,…

Magnetfelder

Tracking atoms – composition of matter

Physics lessons in mainstream school education were extremely limited during the 20th century – especially when it came to expensive and complex experiments.…

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Acoustics

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Aggregate states

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Algorithms

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Animals, plants, habitats

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Atomic structure

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Automats

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Biology

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Buoyancy

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Chaos

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Characteristics of life

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Chemical Reactions

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Chemistry

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Colors

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Computer science

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Cryptology

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Currents

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Data and information

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Design elements

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Earth sciences

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Electricity

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Electricity and energy

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Electricity and magnetism

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Elektromagnetismus

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Encryption