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2. Magic kits that help kids understand the science of illusion

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   It features 25 tricks that include an optical illusion (a nice segway to talking about our brains), special contraptions (like a box and drawer that makes crayons vanish and reappear), and of ...

3. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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   The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

4. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia

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   Gilbert cloud chamber, assembled An alternative view of kit contents. The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles per second (19,000,000 m/s), a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.

5. Pinwheel (toy) - Wikipedia

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   The design for example is typical of a japanese origami folding technique for a pinwheel. [citation needed] During the nineteenth century in the United States, any wind-driven toy held aloft by a running child was characterized as a whirligig, including pinwheels. Pinwheels provided many children with numerous minutes of enjoyment and amusement ...

6. Watch Your Kids Experiment and Learn With These Editor ... - AOL

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   Teach kids ages 8 and up about the laws of physics with this comprehensive science kit featuring six different projects, including a rubber band car, sharpening wheel, and rocket launcher.

7. Here’s How to Make Pinwheels with Your Kids - AOL

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8. WHEE-LO - Wikipedia

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   Box for a WHEE-LO toy The Schylling "magnetic gyro toy" has a design that is very similar to the original WHEE-LO toy.. WHEE-LO is a trademark for a handheld toy that propels a plastic wheel along both sides of a metal track with magnets built into the wheel.

9. Euler's Disk - Wikipedia

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   The quest to achieve longer and longer spin times led him to invite MIT professor Peter Fisher onto the show to experiment with the problem. Spinning the ring in a vacuum had no identifiable effect, while a Teflon spinning support surface gave a record time of 51 seconds, corroborating the claim that rolling friction is the primary mechanism ...