Your everyday world from a physicist's perspective
About this site
"All of you have looked at rainbows, but very few of you have ever seen one." - Walter Lewin
This citation clearly outlines the idea of this website: to show how exciting the physical world is once you start actively observing it.
About me
My name is Sander Wildeman and I've studied applied physics at the University of Twente. I love physics and I want to tell people about it all the time. But most of the times I find it quite impossible to really convey some of the ideas from this beautiful area to friends and family (especially at birthday parties). That's why I often try to invent interesting and exciting demonstrations with "tools" everyone has at home (and have tons of fun in doing so).
For me, this website is a way of keeping track of some of the neatest tricks Nature and I have up our sleeve. And the good thing about physics tricks (as opposed to magic tricks) is that they become more impressive once you know how they are done.
Disclaimer
It might be hard to digest some of the explanations on this website without a proper training in mathematics and some basic understanding of physics (and I don't intent to make it easy to digest), but at least you can learn some nice new tricks to show your friends in the pub.
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Contact
If you happen to know a good experiment that you want to share, feel free to mail me.
