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Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes

In this activity, learners use a flexible magnet as a model for a scanning probe microscope.

DESCRIPTION

"Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes" is a hands-on activity in which visitors use a flexible magnet as a model for a scanning probe microscope. They learn that SPMs are an example of a special tool that scientists use to work on the nanoscale.

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  • Image of the green Small Feel Nano magnet sheets
  • A micrograph of a the tip of a scanning probe microscope
  • A diagram showing how a atomic force microscope works
  • An image of salt from an atomic force microscope
  • Image of the green Small Feel Nano magnet sheets
  • A micrograph of a the tip of a scanning probe microscope
  • A diagram showing how a atomic force microscope works
  • An image of salt from an atomic force microscope

DESCRIPTION

"Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes" is a hands-on activity in which visitors use a flexible magnet as a model for a scanning probe microscope. They learn that SPMs are an example of a special tool that scientists use to work on the nanoscale.

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OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

Scientists use special tools and equipment to work on the nanoscale.

LEARNING GOALS

  • Scientists use special tools and equipment to work on the nanoscale.

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Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Scientists and engineers have formed the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology by investigating properties and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2008
OWNING INSTITUTION

Sciencenter

FUNDING

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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