Table of Contents Lab 1 William Gilbert 1534-1603 Electricity Build a versorium electroscope Lab 2 Galileo 1564 -1642 Pendulums Play with a pendulum Lab 3 Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Gravity and Laws of Motion Balance forks on a toothpick and throw eggs at a blanket Lab 4 Laura Bassi 1711-1778 Gases Make water boil at room temperature Lab 5 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) 1753-1814 Thermodynamics Create a friction heat drill Lab 6 Thomas Young 1773 -1829 Wave Theory Reproduce Young's double-slit experiment Lab 7 Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827) - Light and Color Blow giant bubbles to study reflected light Lab 8 Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Electromagnetic Induction Magnetize a paper clip Lab 9 Pierre Curie 1859-1906 Piezoelectricity Crush a mint to create a flash of light Lab 10 Lisa Meitner 1878 -1968 Nuclear Fission Visualize Meitner's water droplet model using bread dough Lab 11 Albert Einstein 1879 -1955 Relativity Learn about relativity using a blanket and some balls. Lab 12 Katharine Burr Blodgett, 1898-1979 Films Coat glass with gelatin Lab 13 Cecilia Payne 1900-1979 Star Material Make hydrogen gas bubble from a battery Lab 14 Mary Golda Ross 1908 - 2008 Aerospace Design Make a water rocket Lab 15 Luis Walter Alvarez 1911-1988 Bubble Chamber Build a cloud chamber Lab 16 Ruby Payne Scott 1912-1981 Radio Bursts Create radio interference using an electrical appliance Lab 17 Chein Shiung Wu 1912 -1997 Symmetry Play with mirror images Lab 18 Warren M Washington 1936 Atmospheric Pressure Use atmospheric pressure to push an egg into a bottle Lab 19 Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018 Black Holes Use toothpaste to model a black hole Lab 20 Christine Darder 1942 NASA Wing Design Engineer a perfect paper airplane Lab 21 Joselyn Ball Burnell born 1943 Pulsars Squeeze a foam ball to see how stars collapse Lab 22 Valerie L. Thomas 1943 Illusion Transmitter Make illusion transmitter using concave mirror and glowsticks Lab 23 Nadya Mason Conductivity/ Carbon Draw a graphite circuit on paper and light an LED Lab 24 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Cosmology Use a balloon to visualize the expansion of the universe. Lab 25 Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil Galaxies Play a golf ball game to learn how galaxies rotate.