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Revisiting the Science Fair

For our first assignment, we were to revisit science fair projects. Most of the projects I remember to be pretty lame, so I started scouring chemistry videos on MIT open course ware and youtube.

Some of my more interesting finds were mirroring glass with silver nitrate, making glow-stick chemicals and making sodium metal from lye and magnesium. The time constraints meant I wouldn’t have time to order the chemicals online. I remembered the videos of non-newtonian fluids that I’d seen.

Pete Esveld and I found some cornstarch at the grocery store and mixed up a batch of the curious fluid to play around with. Result = lots of fun.

Making Non-Newtonian Fluid from Peter Esveld on Vimeo.

Non-Newtonian Fluid – Act 1 from Peter Esveld on Vimeo.

Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker 2 from Peter Esveld on Vimeo.

Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker from Peter Esveld on Vimeo.

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