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  •  Welcome to the CHaOS Demonstrators Page  

    CHaOS is a student-run society at the University of Cambridge. We organise hands-on science events throughout the year at schools and public events, visiting venues in the Cambridge area and across the country. We have almost a decade of experience in inspiring children and families about science.

    All our events are staffed by enthusiastic student volunteers who demonstrate the experiments. If you'd like to know more about helping then email us at contact@chaosscience.org.uk to be added to our news email list. Over 1000 volunteers are on the list and we send a few emails each term advertising our events. Just reply if you'd like to help!

    Our largest event is Crash Bang Squelch! at the end of Lent term, as part of National Science Week and the Cambridge Science Festival. This popular event normally attracts over 2000 visitors and involves over 150 student demonstrators. We also tour the country for several weeks over the summer. Read about our Summer Roadshow.

    This website is for our student demonstrators. We also have a website for the general public which can be found at www.chaosscience.org.uk. Find out how to do and explain lots of our Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medical experiments. These are not instructions just examples to get you thinking. You may be interested in some general things we have learnt about demonstrating.

    The idea of this site is to try and communicate ideas between demonstrators, so please make comments, write explanations of any experiments you have demonstrated, or suggest new experiments.


     Psychadelic milk RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:30 GMTrosy  
    Psychadelic milk  
     

     Psychadelic milk Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:24 GMTrosy  
    Physics ExpsMake beautiful moving psychedelic patterns in a bowl of milk with just some food colouring and washing up liquid.

    Required
    Some milk
    A few colours of food colouring
    A few drops of washing up liquid
    A bowl
     
     

     Cornflour monster RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:12 GMTrosy  
    Vibrating cornflour with a loudspeaker to make it grow tendrils  
     

     Cornflour monster Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 10:06 GMTrosy  
    Physics Exps

    Description taken from Dave's write-up on the Naked Scientists website:

    A cornflour monster

    This is a really strange effect only discovered about 6 years ago. Basically it involves shaking cornflour mixture very hard and it starts to grow tendrils, in a very 1950's B-movie way.

     
     

     Anti-bubbles RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 09:50 GMTrosy  
    Anti-bubbles - dropping salty water into  
     

     Anti-bubbles Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    13/03/09 @ 09:44 GMTrosy  
    Physics ExpsDescription taken from Dave's Naked Scientist write-up:
    http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/bubbles-that-sink-antibubbles/

    Make fascinating bubbles which rather than floating on water actually sink.

    Required
    A small transparent tank or a large clear bowl
    Some washing up liquid
    A wash bottle or a washing up liquid bottle
    Salt

     
     

     Cells Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    02/03/09 @ 15:57 GMTlgp  
    Biology ExpsUsing a model of a cell and various slides to explain what a cell is, about how different cells are specialized for their function, and how bacterial cells are different.  
     

     Near IR Webcam RA Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    23/02/09 @ 21:47 GMTMarkD  
    Using a webcam sensitive to near infrared light to look at various objects.  
     

     Plants R.A. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    04/02/09 @ 13:25 GMTlgp  
    DESCRIPTION:
    Looking at seeds, seedlings and plants
    Looking at slides down a microscope
     
     

     Plants Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    04/02/09 @ 13:13 GMTlgp  
    Biology ExpsPlants - looking at germination, their structure and how they produce energy by photosynthesis