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Offers 47 experiments of varied difficulty on topics ranging from buoyancy to simple machines.
Science Fair Projects About the Properties of Matter: Using Marbles, Water, Ballons, and More
Sports Science Projects: The Physics of Balls in Motion
Forces and Motion Science Fair Projects: Using Water Balloons, Pulleys, and Other Stuff
Science Fair Success Using Newton's Laws of Motion
Light, Sound, and Waves Science Fair Projects: Using Sunglasses, Guitars, Cds, and Other Stuff
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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Flow - Flowability Tests of Various Liquids
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Find out whether the capillary rise is the same in all liquids.
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Repeat the Pitch Drop Experiment
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Build a Motorboat Powered by Surface Tension
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Keep Your Candy Cool With the Power of Evaporation
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Demonstrate by an experiment what an antibubble is.
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How hydraulics work?
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Investigate whether salt water allows heavier objects to float than tap water and whether liquid density plays any role.
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Viscosity, Thixotropy and Dilatancy of Petroleum-Based Materials
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How much salt does it take to make an object float?
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Water Physics Science Fair Projects & Experiments
Liquids & Fluids (Chemistry) Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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Control of a Ferrofluid Surface by Varying Magnetic Fields
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Effect of temperature on the freezing time of different liquids
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Use a Calorimeter to Measure the Heat Capacity of Water
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Determining the Temperature Dependence of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluid Viscosities
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Can the 10th Century Chinese Justice Cup be used as a simple viscometer, a device used to measure viscosity or the amount of resistance to fluid flow.
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Measuring the Surface Tension of Water
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Test the Density of Various Soap Products
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Race Your Marbles to Discover a Liquid's Viscosity
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Determine the Density of an Object
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How Does a Liquid's Density Affect Its Heat Retention?
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What liquid detergent best reduces surface tension?
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Do Denser Liquids Always Refract More?
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Surface tension: its dependence on material composition, and how it can produce uniquely shaped surfaces.
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Alternative classifications of viscosity for representative fluids and xperimentally measuring the viscosities against these classifications.
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Viscosity's Effect on Liquid Droplets
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Determine how temperature affects the viscosity of corn syrup and glycerin. Try to figure out, using your experimental method and data, if Stokes Law can be computed to determine the viscosity of glycerin.
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Demonstrate Archimedes' principle
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Build your own barometer
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Will liquids with higher viscosities form longer necks on their drops than the liquids with lower viscosities.
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Compare the Adhesion of liquids on different shapes
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Which shape of boat holds the most weight?
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Compare Newtonian with non-Newtonian liquids.
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Water Physics Science Fair Projects & Experiments
Liquids & Fluids (Chemistry) Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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