Me magical physics Stick!

This past Friday after the robotics team demonstrated their bot for the PSA, we started fixing up the robot to prepare it for family fair demonstrations. AS we combed the bosch for miscellaneous loose or broken parts we stumbled upon a stick. Now this "stick" was a decorative neon light that was placed near the front of the bot.



As you can see the inside of the neon light was broken, but it still demonstrates many properties on why it is the magical physics stick. First off notice that the wire forms a spring. The spring was created from wrapping the wire tightly around the tube and then untangling it to form a thing of harmonic motion. Next is the solenoid properties of a spring made of wire. A solenoid is a tightly wrapped coil carrying a current in one direction. If one was to run a current in one direction through these wires a magnetic field could be created flowing in one direction on the inside. Now this couldn't possibly happen in real life due to the duel nature of the wire carrying the "in" and "out" current

The last property of the magical physics stick is the refraction caused by the glass all around the tube. As light passes through a material of higher index it causes the light to bend as well as diffract. One example ids how the wire hole from inside of the glass seems to be higher then where the wires actually come out. Another observation is how the inside of the cube end forms total internal refraction by reflecting the light off its inside and preventing it from being completely transparent. So these are the properties of me magical physics stick.