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ICES Research Colloquium 2019 Listen 21.03. - 06.06.2019 ; Thursdays 17:15 - 18:45 in RIGA 601 The colloquium is intended to provide an opportunity for all ICES members to present research projects, w
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Newtonian Prisms Listen In 1672, Isaac Newton published an article on the composition of the sun's light. He put forward the opinion, that the spectral colours were inherent properties of the white li
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Camera Obscura Listen A Camera Obscura is an darkened room or volume into which light can shine through a pin hole, sometimes a pin hole combined with a lens. On the wall opposite to the entrance hole
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Electrical Sportsman Listen The Electrical Sportman is operated with the help of an electrostatic generator that charges the Leyden Jar on the base plate of the setup. The ‘Birds’ are electrically con
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Voltaic Crown of Cups Listen The Crown of Cups is a modification of the Voltaic Pile. A rectangular plate of copper and zinc are connected by a wire soldered to both plates and thus an "electric eleme
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Geiger Müller counter tube Listen The Geiger Müller counter tube is one of the earliest measurement devices for the field of radioactivity. Walter Müller developed it under the auspices of his thesis
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Sextant Listen The sextant was and still is a navigational instrument. It evolved from the ancient octant (eigth part of the circumference of a circle) and is used to measure the angular difference be
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Optical Experiments Listen Camera Lucida Camera Obscura Reading Stone Leeuwenhoek Microscope Newtonian Prisms Water Prism handheld Brewster type stereoscope table top stereoscopic viewer
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Experimental History of Science Listen The historical laboratory ("HistoLab") is the central place for our focus history of physics. Besides to a number of historically precise reconstructions of meas
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Identity & Culture Listen Europe as a continent and political entity is home to multiple identities and cultures with distinct expressions and histories. Academic as well as political and societal dis