Star Wars Slinky | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2016-12-24

Hi! My name is Rick Hall. I am the founder of a company called IGNITE, based in Nottingham, England. We try to get more creativity in science lessons in schools. I have been doing some experiment at the IUCAA Science Center in Pune, India. This experiment is all about how sound reaches our ears. Today I am going to show you the Slinky Experiment in Sound. Some of you will be familiar with the slinky. It’s a science toy many people play with. But did you know that we can make it sound like a science fiction film? I will show you how to do that. Tie two short strings to the top loop of the slinky. Make loops on the free end of the strings. The loops should be just big enough to get your index fingers in. Now I am going to place both my index fingers inside the string loops and put my fingers in my ears. Now on rocking the slinky I hear the most amazing sounds!! Well, you will not be able to hear the sounds but I will just show you how much the children will enjoy it.
You can tie four strings to the top loop of the slinky. Then two children can have a go at it at the same time. They place the thread loops on their index finger and then put them in their ears. On rocking the slinky they will hear the most amazing sounds! The same game can be played by several children at one go.

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Rick Hall