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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coil at Lowell High School

UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coil at Lowell High School. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coil at Lowell High School. Your guests are from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC):. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) Professor Hartmut Sadrozinski Professor Terry Schalk Department of Physics

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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coil at Lowell High School

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  1. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

  2. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Your guests are from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC): Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) • Professor Hartmut Sadrozinski • Professor Terry Schalk Department of Physics • Daniel Greenhouse, Inventor • Dr. Charlie Crummer • Dr. James Dann, currently a Physics Teacher at Saint Ignatius High in SF

  3. Here’s Daniel…he’s the inventor. He’s an undergrad at ucsc

  4. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Program • Jacob's Ladder • Corona • Zorro’s Revenge • Intro on lightning • Knight in Armor • Intro on Tesla Coil • Lighting to the face • Lights with no wires • Jumping Jacks

  5. UC Santa Cruz Tesla at Lowell High School

  6. UC Santa Cruz Tesla at Lowell High School

  7. UC Santa Cruz Tesla at Lowell High School

  8. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Thanks to our hosts • Lowell Physics Students • Richard Shapiro (Physics Teacher) • Lowell Science Dept. • Gabriel Hanover (Tech) • Paul Cheng (Principal)

  9. 1 Million Volts! DANGER • Normally you can't see, hear or smell electricity, but the Tesla Coil makes • Bright sparks • Loud crackling noise • The air smells bad (Ozone) BRACE YOURSELF! UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School SAFETY FIRST! • Distance at least 20 ft. • Computers, Gameboys, CD players, telephones to the back of the room – unplugged, switched off! • Hearing aids off, pacemakers out of room

  10. Something about Jacob’s Ladder

  11. Something about corona

  12. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Before the show begins there are two concepts we must understand • Lightning • The Faraday Cage

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  14. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + – – – – – – – – – – – – – + + + + + Safest place during a lightning storm is in a plane or car because it is a Faraday Cage UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School The Faraday Cage Why aren't air planes in grave danger being so close to the clouds and all? Answer: They form a Faraday Cage i.e., they are surrounded by metal; if you are surrounded by metal you are safe. The electricity flows around the outside of the metal

  15. Faraday cage demo with radio

  16. Zorro

  17. Mystery Knight… Lowell Physics Student in Armor

  18. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Why does Thomas (“Mr. Electricity”) Edison look so grim? • Is it because he preferred DC current?

  19. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Why does Mr. Nicola (“Sparky”) Tesla look so dapper? • Is it because he preferred AC current?

  20. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Tesla’s Power Plant at Niagara

  21. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Nicola Tesla as a Daredevil? • Long Time Exposure makes it safe!

  22. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

  23. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

  24. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

  25. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Let’s get to know the Tesla Coil

  26. 120 volt Outlet 14,000 volt Transformer 1 million volt Resonance circuit UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Ask your teachers about details! Voltage starts at 120 ends up at 1 million!

  27. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Transformer Power out = Power in Power = Volt  Current Power out Where have you seen this before? Power in Later on in class you will see a Transformer demonstration.

  28. Invisible current Visible sparks UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School The armored suit is safe! • It's a Faraday Cage – no electric field allowed inside Electrical current flows on the OUTSIDE of a metal! Ground In a thunderstorm stay in the car!

  29. Amplitude = Force M (f2natural – f2force) UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Resonance circuit A kick at the right frequency builds up and gets you sky-high!

  30. Lightning Boxing

  31. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School UCSC • Teaching • Research • Outreach

  32. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • 10 Residential Colleges

  33. Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology • Teaching, Research, Outreach • Condensed Matter Physics & Wave Propagation • Elementary Particle Physics UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

  34. UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School • Teaching and Student Research

  35. SLAC • Similar to the Tesla Coil, accelerators convert Energy into new forms • Visit the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC): Electricity  New particles • SCIPP works on BaBar : why we are made out of matter GLAST • In Space in black holes: • Matter  Light, x-rays, “jets” • SCIPP works on GLAST Mission: • discover the most powerful accelerators in the universe UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School Transformation of Energy

  36. Galaxy DNA Cell Atom Nucleus Electron microscope Accelerator UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School The world is full of mysteries, from the tiny to the gigantic There is plenty to learn and discover!

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