A Chocolate Fountain Can Introduce Kids To Complex Physics
Chocolate Fountain Author Adam Townsend with a chocolate fountain. Adam Townsend/Helen Wilson Chocolate fountains are magical. They are mini-Wonka factories that sit on a table and transform already delicious marshmallows, strawberries, and pretzels into marshmallows, strawberries, and pretzels with chocolate on them. Magic. But a new study published today in the European Journal of Physics goes beyond the culinary gloriousness and focuses on how a chocolate fountain can be used to teach students about fluid dynamics, or how fluids move. A chocolate fountain is ideal for explaining how fluids move because it sends the same fluid (melted chocolate) through a series of different conditions. The chocolate is piped up to the top, runs over a dome, and falls down from the dome towards the next layer in...