Spectrum Scientifics Blog

Here’s is Spectrum’s first made-in-house product: The Spectrum Gaussian Gun kit! Four steel balls sit on a track touching a magnet, another ball slowly rolls in on the opposite side of the magnet and gently hits it, which amazingly sends last ball on the other side shooting off at surprising speed!

Like a high-power magnetic version of Newton’s Cradles, this set amazes with its counterintuitive reaction. You can spend hours shooting the ‘gun’ and figuring it out. Includes track, 5 1/2″ steel balls, 2 high-power neodymium magnets and instruction sheet!

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Filed under: Magnets, Physics