Last week was\u00a0National Science and Engineering Week. So to celebrate Trevithick Library hosted\u00a0a\u00a0fun event during Friday lunch time where students showed off their science skills.<\/p>\n
A few students from the Physics Department kindly gave up their lunch break to come and perform some “Science Busking”. For those of you unfamiliar with the term it involves\u00a0the kinds of scientific tricks that they do on the streets in programmes such as BBC’s “Bang goes the Theory”, effectively a scientific trick to hopefully wow and amaze!<\/p>\n
Tricks that wowed and amazed included, the piercing of a balloon and subsequent balancing of a cork and two forks as can be seen in the photo above!<\/p>\n
Two students also demonstrated the strength of\u00a0paper by interweaving the\u00a0pages of two\u00a0magazines together and then using all their might and failing to pull them apart:<\/p>\n
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Perhaps the most impressive trick for the scifi geeks among us was the recreation of the sound of a laser from\u00a0Star Wars. For this you take one metal slinky and one styrofoam cup. Place the cup in the end of the slinky and then bounce the slinky up and down. Hey presto you have\u00a0that amazing\u00a0Star Wars sound effect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week was\u00a0National Science and Engineering Week. So to celebrate Trevithick Library hosted\u00a0a\u00a0fun event during Friday lunch time where students showed off their science skills. A few students from the […]","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trevithick-library","tag-physics"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}