List of scientific demonstrations

This is a list of scientific demonstrations used in educational demonstrations and popular science lectures.

Physics

 * Balsa wood bridge &mdash; demonstrates compressive strength and tensile strength, teaches engineering thinking
 * Egg drop competition &mdash; demonstrates compressive strength, teaches engineering thinking
 * Hand boiler &mdash; demonstrates vapour-liquid equilibrium and simple heat engine principles
 * Newton's cradle &mdash; demonstrates elastic collision, conservation of momentum, and conservation of energy
 * Gauss gun
 * Plate trick or Dirac belt trick &mdash; demonstrates spinors and the double cover of SO(3) by SU(2)
 * Prince Rupert's Drop &mdash; demonstrates supercooling and tensile stress
 * Self-siphoning beads &mdash; demonstrates momentum, energy and inertia
 * Water rocket &mdash; demonstrates conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, the gas laws and basic rocketry
 * Franklin bells &mdash; demonstrate electric charges
 * Oxford Electric Bell &mdash; an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since
 * Wimshurst machine &mdash; an electrostatic generator
 * Shooting a candle through a plank
 * Foucault pendulum &mdash; demonstrates the rotation of Earth

Chemistry

 * Ammonia fountain &mdash; introduces concepts like solubility and the gas laws at entry level.
 * Barking dog reaction &mdash; demonstrates rapid exothermic chemical reaction
 * Blue bottle (chemical reaction) &mdash; demonstrates reduction and oxidation reactions, and chemical colour change
 * Chemical garden
 * Diet Coke and Mentos eruption &mdash; demonstrates bubble nucleation
 * Dry ice color show
 * Elephant toothpaste
 * Fizz keeper
 * Flame test
 * Magic sand &mdash; demonstrates hydrophobic substances
 * Mercury beating heart &mdash; demonstrates electrochemical redox reaction. and an effect of a non-homogeneous electrical double layer
 * Screaming jelly babies &mdash; demonstrates the energy within candy
 * Using liquid nitrogen to shatter a rose
 * Detonating a cloud of flour