Professor Sparky explores electricity from the tiny impulses that power our heart to the massive jolts of lightning storms.

Demonstrations include:

• millivolts that keep our hearts beating in rhythm and allow us to play music on a theramin
• tens of volts that can power tiny robots and powerful electromagnets and ignite steel wool
• hundred volt glowing pickles
• thousand volt plasma balls
• ten thousand volts powering a Jacobs ladder
• one hundred thousand volts in a hair raising van de Graff generator that make pie rice crispies and pans fly
• million volts of mini- lightning from a Tesla coil to light a fluorescent lamp and a sample of frozen lightning

This demonstration can be tailored for classrooms or assemblies and timed to fit you schedule. To arrange for a visit, contact Rick McMaster through texeweek@us.ibm.com