Over 350 people attended the event. From the 280
who signed in, we found 7 physics professors, 19 physics
students, 66 who identified as UCLA students, 7 from the Art Deptartment,
32 8th grade physical science students from Paul Revere, 22 honor
students and 8 parents and teachers from Cals Early College High School,
5 other high schoolers, 10 other middle schoolers, 5 elementary
schoolers, 6 from the Boy Scouts and 6 from the Cub scouts. The rest were
from other universities or undetermined.
John and Craig smooth the bed of coals.
David measures the temperature with an infrared thermometer
that goes up to 900 degrees F. It went up off the scale,
above 900 degrees. It was hot.
After walking across the coals, Walter explains the physics behind it.
Pierre walks across the coals.
Marvin walks across the coals into the pan of water at the end.
The audience is astounded at the foolishness they see.
One of Harry's two handmade fire barrels.
11 people walked across the coals and survived with minor burns. Some
audience members wanted to walk and were disappointed to learn that only
faculty and staff could walk.
Click here to see a movie of one firewalk.
Fights almost broke out over Pluto.
Shadows on the phosphorescent wall. People also enjoyed
writing on the wall with LED's. They quickly found that the red and green
LED's didn't work for writing. They needed to excite the phosphor with
a blue LED, higher in frequency than the green phosphor emission.
Total internal reflection in various plastic
ligth pipes.
Laser light inside a water stream, showing
total internal reflection.
Water stream with light bouncing inside hits a hand.
The light portal was really a 3-Dimensional illusion. You can only get some idea of
what it was like to walk through it from this 2-D picture.
Video of the portal.
Dancing in the portal.
Black light tent.
A stereo viewer sculpture by Franklin Londin held 3-D images
of Tesla coils and skulls.
Art wears electroluminescent (el) wire. El spider.
Sodium Light.
The human electroshock machine.
Tesla coil.
Mystery gas seen through a diffraction grating to identify it.
More images and video to come. If you have good images or video, please
send them or contact me at
msimon at physics.ucla.edu
Day of the Dead 3-D Teslath
on
Friday November 2, 2007 6:30 -- 9 pm
UCLA Knudsen Hall Outdoor Patio 2-222
light sabers, costumes, day glo, light art encouraged
Complete Schedule of Events
- 4:30 pm Graduate Student Social outside on PAB 3rd Floor patio
- 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm, 8 pm "The Life of Tesla" and Tesla Theater, with our large Tesla Coil
and 90 minute video
about Nikola Tesla. The SI unit of magnetic flux density is called
the tesla, to honor the contributions of Nikola Tesla, among them the first
x-ray picture, radio, the tuned transmitters and receivers still used today,
the radio telescope, remote control, wireless communication, RADAR, AC motors
and generators, the electrical system we still use today.
Location: Kinsey Pavilion 1-220 (Outside Entrance)
- 6:30 pm or so-- The illusion portal to the outdoor patio will open when darkness
falls.
Don't miss the Society of Physics Students altar to our scientific ancestors, the magnetically
controlled photonic crystal, Meteor Man in 3-D, the Perfectly-Safe Human Electroshock
Machine.
Location: 2nd Floor Kinsey Hall 2-222
- 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 pm Start of 3-D shows in the Visualization Portal, Math Sciences.
See a show on the current use of 3-D in the NASA solar STEREO
mission. A second show will transport you to a reconstruction of the Roman
Coliseum, the Temple Mount, and a virtual reality tour of the UCLA
campus.
9:00 pm 3-D slideshow, Art in the Black Rock Desert
Location: 5th Floor (Ground Level) Math Sciences Building 5-308
Visualization Portal
Parking
The best parking lot is Lot 2 at Hilgard and Westholme.
Parking in the lot costs $8. There are new metered spaces in Lot 2.
There is metered parking along Charles Young Dr. near the
parking kiosk at $0.25 per 15 minutes with a 2 hour max. Bring quarters.
Maps
Here is a clickable map Click on Knudsen Hall or inverted fountain. There will probably be signs pointing
the way.
Here is a printable map
Here is a printable POSTER