PHYSICS

Would you believe us if we told you that you could hammer a nail with a banana? What if we told you that you could defy gravity by making your own simple magnets? Or what if we told you that you could turn the oxygen you breathe into a liquid? We’ll explore the answers to these questions by dropping the temperature in a big way.

Temperature affects everything around us; it changes the way materials look and how they feel, the way they behave in response to forces and pressure, and even the way they interact with magnets! To explore the effects of extreme temperature, we’ll use one of the coldest things we can get our hands on, liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen exists at a balmy -320 degrees Fahrenheit; as you might imagine, cooling objects with liquid nitrogen can lead to some bizarre phenomena as well as some really fun experiments.

At our booth you can explore the relationship between extreme temperature and various forces to see what happens when bananas, balloons, superconductors, marshmallows, magnets, and even the air itself experience the frigid cold. Prepare to be amazed!

Check out the Physics department's webpage here!