UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coil at Lowell High School

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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School
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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

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Heres Danielhes the inventor. Hes an
undergrad at ucsc
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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

• Program
• Jacob's Ladder
• Corona
• Zorros Revenge
• Intro on lightning
• Knight in Armor
• Intro on Tesla Coil
• Lighting to the face
• Lights with no wires
• Jumping Jacks

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UC Santa Cruz Tesla at Lowell High School
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UC Santa Cruz Tesla at Lowell High School
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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)

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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

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• Something about Jacobs Ladder

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• Something about corona

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Before the show begins there are two concepts we
must understand

• Lightning
• The Faraday Cage

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How lightning works
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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
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Faraday cage demo with radio
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Zorro
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Mystery Knight Lowell Physics Student in Armor
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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

• Why does Thomas (Mr. Electricity) Edison look
  so grim?

• Is it because he preferred DC current?

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• Why does Mr. Nicola (Sparky) Tesla look so
  dapper?

• Is it because he preferred AC current?

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• Teslas Power Plant at Niagara

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• Nicola Tesla as a Daredevil?

• Long Time Exposure makes it safe!

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UC Santa Cruz Tesla Coilat Lowell High School

• Lets get to know the Tesla Coil

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Ask your teachers about details!
Voltage starts at 120 ends up at 1 million!
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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.
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• 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!
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Resonance circuit
A kick at the right frequency builds up and gets
you sky-high!
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Lightning Boxing
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• UCSC
• Teaching
• Research
• Outreach

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• 10 Residential Colleges

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• Teaching and Student Research

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• Transformation of Energy

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The world is full of mysteries, from the tiny to
the gigantic
There is plenty to learn and discover!