Physics experiments

An Arabic proverb says: “One experiment is worth a thousand words”. Taking that very just saying as our starting point, we offer a wide variety of physics experiments for children up to the age of 12. The experiments we propose will help you to see, to remember and, most important of all, to understand the substance of the physical laws and principles by which our world is built. Theory, as everyone knows, is dead without practice, and without practical confirmation all the formulas and theorems of physics belong to the realm of supposition, conjecture and theoretical speculation. Theory gives knowledge; practice gives confidence in that knowledge, and that confidence is in its turn the foundation on which a view of the world rests.
 
From infancy a person comes to know the reality around him only through direct dealings with it. In time words take the place of practical experience. And so, relying more and more on words, a person draws away from reality.
 
Physics experiments are a chance to look more thoroughly into how one's own world is made.
Read it first! Before starting an experiment, read carefully how it is to be done.
Gather all the materials you need!
Experiment!
Observe!

• The click
• What moves which way?
• The electric comb
• The magnet draws
• A magnet from a nail
• The steel barrier
• The balance upset
• Bubbles to the rescue
• Strength and shape
• The pendulum
• Balance
• On the edge
• Flight
• The bending sheet
• The spray
• Why does it not fall?
• The amazing loop
• The swing
• Stronger than two
• How much strength is in your fingers?
• The ball that stays put
• Flick!
• By inertia

• The water plug
• A race between pendulums
• The balloon rocket
• The helicopter
• Right or left
• A hand on the screen
• Which way the boat goes
• Polarised light
• The rainbow film
• The reversed name
• The hot rubber band
• A tiny explosion
• Hippity-hop
• The sounding cup
• Experiments on the wave theory of light

Working on their own or with friends, and sometimes with a parent's help, children can take their first steps in physics through these simple but absorbing experiments. Clear instructions with drawings come with each of them. All the physics experiments presented here are safe and call for no special equipment or materials.