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[O07-06] The Challenge of the Science Club in "Teijisei" High School
--Our Apparatuses Now Voyage Around the Universe--
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Keywords:The Science Club in "Teijisei" High School, Microgravity Generator, Variable Gravity Apparatus, Magnetic Separation, Diamagnetism, Mars
The activities of the “Teijisei” Science Club begin after 9:00 pm. The activity time is only one hour. The members of the Science Club work in the morning, take classes in the evening, and only after that do they have time for activities. They must be getting tired of it.But they come together because they are motivated by the desire to see what no one has seen before.
If an experiment is successful on the day they accidentally take a day off, they will be shocked and fall asleep. Therefore, they don't miss school even when they are tired.
Since we are trying to do an experiment that no one has ever done before, we have no choice but to build our own experimental apparatus.There is no way such a thing is commercially available. The student council has little money, so there is not much money for research. Therefore, we go to Do-It-Yourself store and 100-yen stores to find what we can use. We don't have research funds, so we have to use our wits. The students and teachers will gather their knowledge and wisdom to devise and build our own experimental apparatuses.
When new members join the club, the first thing that confuses them is, "I joined the science club, but am I in the woodworking club or the architecture club? Or is this the building department?" I thought I joined the Science Club. Research using computers and mechanical devices is a long way off in the future. At first, they learn how to pull a saw and turn a screwdriver. As is typical of today's children, most of them cannot do this. Because we are building an experimental apparatus for precision experiments, the slightest distortion of the apparatus will affect the results of the experiment. Clumsy students grow up being scolded. As is often the case, the “Teijisei” course sometimes enrolls veteran grandfathers and active craftsmen. They build their apparatus while teaching carpentry to members of the Science Club, who are about the age of their grandchildren.
The students, who at first are pulling the saw without understanding what it is, begin to understand "why this distortion affects the apparatus" and "what is the purpose of drilling this hole". In this way, they understand what kind of apparatus they work with and for what purpose. They learn by methods that do not involve paper and pencil. Through this process, they become attached to the apparatuses they have built and take pride in their experiments. When the experiment is started, it naturally does not produce the desired results. We all gather our wits together again. By gathering everyone's wisdom and knowledge, we can see the physical phenomena we were trying to see. Even if the students do not have sufficient basic academic skills, they will be able to grasp the image of the experiment in this way.
Our experimental territories are gravity-related and magnetism-related experiments. For gravity-related experiments, a microgravity generator and a variable gravity apparatus were fabricated. In order to create an environment for conducting the desired precision experiments, it is necessary to suppress the vibration of the apparatus. We have made every possible effort to achieve this. In the experiments on magnetism, we studied materials that are not considered to react to magnets: diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials. In order to detect the very weak forces acting on these materials, we combined microgravity experimental apparatuses and devised new measurement methods. We have achieved our research goals while suffering and having fun at the same time. We will introduce our handmade experimental apparatuses that we have devised.
If an experiment is successful on the day they accidentally take a day off, they will be shocked and fall asleep. Therefore, they don't miss school even when they are tired.
Since we are trying to do an experiment that no one has ever done before, we have no choice but to build our own experimental apparatus.There is no way such a thing is commercially available. The student council has little money, so there is not much money for research. Therefore, we go to Do-It-Yourself store and 100-yen stores to find what we can use. We don't have research funds, so we have to use our wits. The students and teachers will gather their knowledge and wisdom to devise and build our own experimental apparatuses.
When new members join the club, the first thing that confuses them is, "I joined the science club, but am I in the woodworking club or the architecture club? Or is this the building department?" I thought I joined the Science Club. Research using computers and mechanical devices is a long way off in the future. At first, they learn how to pull a saw and turn a screwdriver. As is typical of today's children, most of them cannot do this. Because we are building an experimental apparatus for precision experiments, the slightest distortion of the apparatus will affect the results of the experiment. Clumsy students grow up being scolded. As is often the case, the “Teijisei” course sometimes enrolls veteran grandfathers and active craftsmen. They build their apparatus while teaching carpentry to members of the Science Club, who are about the age of their grandchildren.
The students, who at first are pulling the saw without understanding what it is, begin to understand "why this distortion affects the apparatus" and "what is the purpose of drilling this hole". In this way, they understand what kind of apparatus they work with and for what purpose. They learn by methods that do not involve paper and pencil. Through this process, they become attached to the apparatuses they have built and take pride in their experiments. When the experiment is started, it naturally does not produce the desired results. We all gather our wits together again. By gathering everyone's wisdom and knowledge, we can see the physical phenomena we were trying to see. Even if the students do not have sufficient basic academic skills, they will be able to grasp the image of the experiment in this way.
Our experimental territories are gravity-related and magnetism-related experiments. For gravity-related experiments, a microgravity generator and a variable gravity apparatus were fabricated. In order to create an environment for conducting the desired precision experiments, it is necessary to suppress the vibration of the apparatus. We have made every possible effort to achieve this. In the experiments on magnetism, we studied materials that are not considered to react to magnets: diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials. In order to detect the very weak forces acting on these materials, we combined microgravity experimental apparatuses and devised new measurement methods. We have achieved our research goals while suffering and having fun at the same time. We will introduce our handmade experimental apparatuses that we have devised.