A simple pocket-size, battery operated Geiger counter is here described. It may be used in classroom to test low emission radioactive sources, or to detect background radiation. […]
A simple low cost homemade device that converts radio wave energy from a mobile phone signal to electricity for lighting an LED is described. No battery or complex circuitry is required. The device allows a range of interesting experiments on the physics and technology of mobile phones. […]
By making paper balls with crumpled sheets of paper and studying the functional relationship between their mean diameters versus their mass it is possible to introduce the concept of fractional dimensions to students. […]
Measuring light spectra with a simple homemade grating spectroscope. […]
This note describes a system based on photogates and interfaced to a PC that can be particularly useful in physics experiments in which the description of objects’ motion is relevant. The PC role is twofold: on one side it is the system timer, […]
A simple to make but not so simple to explain experiment on polarized light is described and explained. […]