Haiku of interest to visitors this summer are two views that I recommend to do this summer, and that you can suggest to your parents and mothers. I delighted both for its spectacular and for your interest:
- The first visit in Motril Foucault's Pendulum
Motril already has a Foucault pendulum-like the Park Science-in Yacht Club. It is the first in Spain to outdoors. Miguel Cabrerizo ball has donated this invention is used to demonstrate the Earth's rotation and the effect 'Coriolis'. Cabrerizo is professor and teaches physics "a creative and different from these inventions made in giant size. The teaching that he uses is something unique in the world and, therefore, has been awarded the First European Prize Physics in 2002.
Foucault's invention, a spherical pendulum can swing freely in any vertical plane and is able to oscillate for a long time, is used to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and the effect 'Coriolis' and takes its name in honor of its creator, Leon Foucault.
is based on a physical principle enunciated and Galileo, who claimed that the plane in which the pendulum swings does not change, as well as the Earth rotates, and we with it, "when we observe a Foucault pendulum seems to be the plane of oscillation that changes, when in fact the Earth that is spinning, "says Miguel Cabrerizo .
is constructed of 316 stainless steel, has a triangular base pyramid structure about six feet high by two side at the base, on which rests a circular black granite table, the ball hangs from a cable shroud also stainless steel. The swing pendulum is maintained by an electromagnetic system that supplies the energy lost through friction.
- The second visit in Granada: the Alhambra lions
12 lions The most emblematic in the history of art can be seen again yesterday, once they have completed for restoration work that have kept them in the workshops of the board since 2007. Part of an exhibition at the crypt Carlos V Palace of the Alhambra, remain there until the end of the year. This is a historic moment. Finally everybody can see lions as they really were. Are not yet completely finished, but interventions that are going to perform in front of the visitors some days.
The famous felines, which were built between 1362 and 1391 by order of Muhammad V, who commissioned a workshop area where marble was used Macael (Almería), also kept other secrets that have been disclosed. Since they began work three years ago, the number you mentioned each of them has been replaced by a name given by the restorers. Felix, Melanie, Olivia, King Gudu, Calimero ... None are alike. The exhibition will
open until January 2011 when the Lions return to the courtyard fountain that bears his name. Besides the twelve cats, the crypt of the Palace of Charles V takes advantage of cells to show several videos that explain the process of restoration and history of the monument, as well as an audiovisual displays an image file that starts with the source Drawings of 1668 and reaches more recent digital photos.
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And finally, news that has filled me with joy. Do you remember the painter and mathematician, Escher? (We met and discussed some of his work throughout this course), then
The Alhambra and the Science Park have teamed up to bring a sample of 135 works of Escher , which will take place from April 2011
Dutch artist visited the Alhambra twice, in 1922 and 1936, and was one of the generous artists who was able to design the monument throughout the world. To complete the project the museum, in collaboration with eight other planetary Spain, will produce a planetarium program formats "full dome", which will reflect the expressive power of Escher's work on which has a large presence in astronomy , geometry, physics and mathematics.
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