{"id":494,"date":"2025-06-27T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/asiciliaaguilar\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:55:42","slug":"vii-physics-students-science-fair-at-the-mills-observatory-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/asiciliaaguilar\/vii-physics-students-science-fair-at-the-mills-observatory-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"VII Physics Students’ Science Fair at the Mills Observatory 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year the weather was not as nice as in 2024, but we still managed to run a nice fair and had many visitors and to celebrate our 7th Science Fair, bringing every year new activities and physics-based fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that stars, at the end of their lives, may end up just as big as a small planet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When a star dies, it falls onto itself and rebounds: Ready, steady? Supernova!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other Supernovae happen in binary stars. We also tested how you could orbit around such a double system. With a bit of practice, your “planet” will make a very nice 8-shape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light can create amazing patterns, but did you know that sounds can, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Changing the pitch changes the pattern!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, if you looked very carefully, you could see similar patterns in wine glasses, drums, and other musical instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other students created a magn-ificent maze for our magnets to drag a bunch of iron fillings around and learn new things about physics on every corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this was not the only thing you could do with magnets, we also saw the shape of the magnetic field lines with ferrofluids, and tried to place as many magnets as possible on our board… without them clumping together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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