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Fidget Spinner
These handheld spinning devices feature high-quality bearings
at the center for a long, smooth spin. Use these spinners to
study gyroscopic motion, forces and kinetic energy or just use
them as a fun way to de-stress!
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP9568 Fidget Spinner $10.76
Hand Boiler
Amaze your students by having liquid boil with the touch of your hand.
You can even perform a fractional distillation (instructions included).
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP9293 Hand Boiler $8.96
Pulse Glass
Dramatic demonstration with only the heat from your hand.
Two glass bulbs are connected with a glass tube and contain
a colored, volatile liquid. Holding one of the bulbs in your hand
causes the liquid to boil and the vapor to move into the other
bulb where it bubbles rapidly. Caution: Never use with any
heat source warmer than body temperature.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP5713 Pulse Glass $18.92
Magnetic Spin Wheel
The perfect “toy” to teach concepts of resonance.
Tilt the wand from side to side and watch as
the wheel spins faster and faster. Students will
become resonance enthusiasts as they attempt
to get the wheel spinning as fast as possible. Relate the motion to that of a swing,
or to the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapse. This versatile toy can also be
used to demonstrate concepts such as energy, momentum, and rotational motion.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP6431 Magnetic Spin Wheel $7.79
Tornado Tube
Create a tornado using two empty plastic soft drink bottles. This unique
toy employs hydraulic principles to create the vortex of a tornado. The
Tornado Tube can be used over and over again.
See free video at flinnsci.com.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP1930 Tornado Tube $4.94
The Two-Potato Clock
Operate a clock for months at a time using nothing but two
potatoes as an energy source. Or you can try limes, lemons,
plants, soda and more. Besides providing you with a clock
that keeps great time, we also explain the chemistry of how
and why the Potato Clock works. Fun!
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP1939 The Two-Potato Clock $30.80
Make Your Own
Soap Bubble Solution
To make one liter of soap bubble solution, mix 100 mL of dishwashing liquid
with 50 mL of glycerin. Add this to 850 mL of distilled water. The mixture should
be stirred, not shaken, otherwise excessive amounts of suds will be produced.
For producing large, long-lasting soap bubbles, increase the amount of the
detergent to 200 mL, the glycerin to 100 mL, and then add to 700 mL of distilled
water. Again, stir the solution. You may have to experiment with your soap
mixture to get very large bubbles.
Distilled or deionized water is important to prevent interference from
dissolved metal ions. If the solution does not seem to work well, let it sit for a few
days to a week. Aging seems to improve the characteristics of soap solutions.
The bubbles break with a fair amount of force; keep them away from your face.
Also, a floor wet from a lot of broken bubbles will be very slippery. Be careful to
avoid falling. With a group or class, it is best to work with these solutions outdoors.
Physics of Toys
Airzooka
Ready, Aim—Fire! This powerful air cannon will blow out a
candle at 10 paces. Perform the “William Tell” demonstration
as you knock a foam cup off a student’s head from across
the classroom with a blast of air. Have fun as you teach
about air pressure, Bernoulli’s principle and fluids. Rugged
plastic design. Color may vary. Safety note: No physical
projectiles fire from the Airzooka. Only a soft “ball” of air, in
the form of an air vortex, shoots from the end of the air cannon.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP6657 Airzooka $24.94
Bernoulli Demonstrator
What lifts a jet airplane off the runway? What
makes a baseball curve? Why does your shower
curtain cave in on you when you turn the shower
on? Discuss these and other phenomena as
explained by scientist Daniel Bernoulli with this
easy-to-use, hands-on demonstrator. Get a class
set so each student can feel the “pressure” and
experience Bernoulli’s principle first hand! Flinn instructions provided.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each Price/12 or more
AP5933 Bernoulli Demonstrator $ .54 $ .48
Balancing Bird
How does this bird defy the laws of gravity? Because of
two well-placed weights at the end of its colorful wings, its
center of gravity is located at the very tip of its beak. Spin
it on its stand or balance it on a finger. Wingspan of 61/2".
Flinn instruction sheet provided.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP9301 Balancing Bird $5.91
Giant Bubble Wand Kit
By: Mike Shaw and Greg Smith,
Chestnut Grove Middle School, King, NC
For this kit, Flinn provides the directions and the complicated
hardware. You provide five feet of inexpensive PVC pipe, a hula
hoop and a wading pool. Your students will love the excitement of
being completely enclosed in a bubble. You can even enclose two
students in a single bubble! The instructions contain all the information
you need to get started plus they offer you help in teaching
qualitative and quantitative observation skills.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP9304 Giant Bubble Wand Kit $13.44
Chemistry of Toys See pages 320–324.
Drinking Bird
Truly a classic demonstration. Your students will be fascinated by the
drinking bird that doesn’t know when to stop. Teach thermodynamics
and pressure, and have fun at the same time. Instruction sheet
provided.
See free video at flinnsci.com.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP9292 Drinking Bird $11.72
Energy Stick
Students become human electrical conductors!
Completely safe to touch and handle, the Energy
Stick features electrodes on each end of its 71/2" tube.
When these electrodes are touched simultaneously, long-lasting LED lights inside
the tube flash and the tube makes a noise. Release one or both of the electrodes and
the flashing lights and noise stop. Also works with an entire circle of people holding
hands. 11/4" diameter.
Catalog No. Description Price/Each
AP7598 Energy Stick $9.60
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