ROUGH SCIENCE III
(first shown 2003 BBC2)

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Prog. 1 -
Find gold in a river; build a metal detector and an accurate weighing device.

Prog. 2 -
Devise an automated gold-extracting machine; make lanolin hand cream; work out the date of the last major earthquake.

Prog. 3 -
Find and mine a gold-bearing rock; make a waterproof tent and create and record an 'eathquake' with a DIY seismograph.

Prog. 4 -
Build an ice lens; create chemical heat, and measure the speed and melt of a glacier.

Prog. 5 -
Extract gold from rock and sand; build an altimeter and use it to find buried gold from a treasure map.

Prog. 6 -
Build a furnace and bellows, and smelt and form gold to make souvenirs.



THE CREATIVE SCIENCE CENTRE

Dr Jonathan Hare, Physics Dept., The University of Sussex
Brighton, East Sussex. BN1 9QJ

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