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STRANGE CASE OF THE COSMIC RAYS video work sheet - part 1

1. What three famous authors are portrayed by puppets in this 1957 made-for-television science film?

2. What was the name of the instrument which consists of two gold leaves hanging in a glass jar?

3. In the cartoon scene, who stole electrons from the "ELECTROSCOPE BANK"?
(4 answers)

4. How did the Jesuit physicist, Theodore Wolff, prove that phantom radiation DID NOT come from the Earth?

5. How high did Viktor Francis Hess travel in a balloon?

6. What did Hess find out about electroscope discharge while flying in his balloon?

7. Where were the rays coming from?

8. What device was used to prove whether the rays were waves or particles?

9. Did the cosmic rays turn out to be waves or particles?

10. What does "Fagin" from "OLIVER TWIST" represent in the film?

11. What is Fagin's method-of-operation?

12. What is a cloud chamber?

13. What does alcohol vapor show in a cloud chamber?

14. What happens if a cloud chamber is put in the middle of a powerful magnetic field?

15. Who did the henchmen turn out to be? (3 answers)

16. How did they "put the finger" on Fagin?

1. What does the magnetic field of the Earth do to charged particles from outer space?

2. In the film, did more charged particles or less charged particles hit the Earth at the poles than at the equator?

3. Could Fagin be a neutron?

4. Was Fagin's charge positive or negative?

5. What is a positron?

6. What was Fagin's fourth henchman?

7. According to the film, what are the 3 kinds of force?

8. What was wrong with the mu-meson?

9. What unit of nuclear force holds the "heart of the atom" together?

10. By 1957 (when this film was made), how many types of particles had been discovered?

11. What did Fagin turn out to be?

12. What did University of Minnesota physicists discover?

13. Where do "cosmic Fagins" come from?

14. What are galactic clouds made from?

15. Why are the atoms naked?

16. Compared to the Earth, what are stars made of?