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Unusual Physics

Unusual Physics

Fire Pendulum This fire pendulum demonstrates Newton's third law, pendulum motion, and driven resonant motion.

Failure of a 500 kV opening switch which leads to a very large arc.

High voltage "lifter" demonstration. Lifters have become popular in the last decade along with claims that they are somehow antigravity machines and violate known laws of physics. This movie shows lifters have been around for a long time. The thrust is completely accounted for by the "ion wind". There is an example of an ion engine in our electrostatics Van de Graaff area.

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