Science & Technology Hall

Exhibition Guide

1F Basic Science·Chemistry·life and science Map
Basic Science·Chemistry·life and science

This corner is to help you realize through interactive experiences that science is not difficult but rather fun and easy. It offers an opportunity for you to logically understand the scientific phenomena you may encounter in your everyday life and helps develop the ability objects in-depth. The Climate Change and Countermeasures section focuses on the environmental impacts of climate change. The Mathematics corner displays hands-on exhibits to help children understand mathematics with ease. The Basic Science corner also exhibits items on energy preservation, light and sound. It displays hands-on installations such as Energy Conservation, Motion Sickness Room and Infrared Light Exploration so that visitors can understand scientific principles directly by operating the exhibits themselves.

Basic Science

Featured Exhibit

  • 1. Motion Sickness Room

    The entire room is slanted by 15 degrees and causes a discordance in signals transmitted from the eyes and semicircular canals. As a result, visitors experience neural confusion that causes dizziness and nausea.

  • 2. Centrifugal Bicycle

    By stepping on the pedal of the centrifugal bicycle, you will go upward following its circular rail, stop, and move backward as you fall. With more force, you will go higher. In this phenomenon, a created kinetic energy(speed) is converted to potential energy(height) and converted back again to kinetic energy in a repetitive manner. The forces exerted on the rider and the bicycle are a pull on the bicycle(centripetal force) and a push(centrifugal force) on the rider.

  • 3. Plasma Glass Sphere

    A plasma sphere filled with inert gases (helium, neon, krypton, xenon, and other mixed gases) is placed inside a glass environment with a low atmospheric pressure of 0.01, and becomes momentarily discharged by sending voltage to the central electrode. The phenomenon is created when a strong electric field is placed on an object that does not have an electric current, such as a gas. The difference in voltage creates an electric current and a spark is created. The spark rapidly increases the temperature of the surrounding air, thus a plasma, a temporarily ionized gas is formed. As the temporarily separated electrons and ions try to return to their normal state, in the process, the electrons emit the absorbed energy in the form of light which can produce different colours depending on the gas type. When an object that carries electricity such as a hand hits the surface of the sphere, electrons moves toward the hand, thus creating thicker streams of light. The separation of an ion from a molecule or atom when heated is an everyday phenomenon. However, it is very unstable and quickly reverts back to the normal state. But at the right temperature, protons and electrons can co-exist, this is a plasma.

  • 4. Air Cannon

    This is an example of energy conservation as an iron ball drops from top to bottom creating kinetic energy. The water trapped in the reservoir falls repeatedly and produces electricity.

  • 5. Corioli’s Room

    The entire room is slanted by 15 degrees and causes a discordance in signals transmitted from the eyes and semicircular canals. As a result, visitors experience neural confusion that causes dizziness and nausea.

  • 6. Pulley

    By stepping on the pedal of the centrifugal bicycle, you will go upward following its circular rail, stop, and move backward as you fall. With more force, you will go higher. In this phenomenon, a created kinetic energy(speed) is converted to potential energy(height) and converted back again to kinetic energy in a repetitive manner. The forces exerted on the rider and the bicycle are a pull on the bicycle(centripetal force) and a push(centrifugal force) on the rider.

  • 7. Large Kaleidoscope

    This is an example of energy conservation as an iron ball drops from top to bottom creating kinetic energy. The water trapped in the reservoir falls repeatedly and produces electricity.

Let’s Play with Chemistry

Featured Exhibit

  • 1. 118 Chemical Elements

    Check out an enlarged periodic table with elements’ cards in them. The periodic table has been advanced with tons of chemists’s countless efforts since it was first released by Mendeleev 150 years ago.

  • 2. Let’s Go Inside Nanometer

    Nanometer is a super small size unit, equivalent to one billionth of a meter. Go inside nano-sized fullerene and take a picture together.

  • 3. Metal Fireworks Shinning the Night Sky

    Fireworks inside exhibition hall!!
    Make fireworks with your own chosen color and shape, presenting a good memory to others.

  • 4. Chemical Experiments

    You can see many lab equipments here. Let’s find out each of their roles. Welcome to our marvelous lab!

Biology

Featured Exhibit

  • 1. Beginning of Life

    You can watch a video here that explains the development process and vision of biology as well as the beginning of life

  • 2. Basics of Life

    Cell is the basic unit of living creatures. The structure, evolution process of cells and various types of cells are displayed.

  • 3. Blueprint of Living Creatures

    DNA contains all information involved in the making of living creatures. Here displayed are the characteristics of DNA, how it works and how it is transmitted from one generation to the other.

  • 4. Dynamic Equilibrium of Life

    Substances constantly come in and out of living creatures. The process of living creatures absorbing, dissolving and re-sythesizing substances as part of themselves is displayed.

  • 5. Research of Biology

    Here we display new issues of bio-research and research cases of life extension.

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