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Egg-cellent Landing
Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at BoulderAdd to list DetailsLearners recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and learners perform several velocity calculations....
Weightless Water
COSIAdd to list DetailsIn this physics activity (page 5 of the PDF), learners will witness the effects of free fall by observing falling water, and will gain a better understanding of the concept of weightlessness....
Newton's Laws Demonstrations
The ExploratoriumAdd to list DetailsIn this collection of demonstrations, learners explore Newton's Laws of Motion. These seventeen quick activities investigate air resistance, acceleration, terminal velocity, inertia, action...
Falling Feather
The ExploratoriumAdd to list DetailsIn this physics activity, learners recreate Galileo's famous experiment, in which he dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both...
Parabola Basketball
Community Science Workshop NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners build mini-basketball courts and explore the laws of physics. Learners discover that everything you throw or shoot on earth travels in a parabola. Note: a drill is used...
Why do Raindrops Sometimes Land Gently and Sometimes Land with a Splat?
Colorado State UniversityAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners examine raindrop bottles (prepared ahead of time) to observe in slow motion the behavior of falling droplets and explore concepts such as drag and terminal velocity. As...
Atmospheric Collisions
NOAAAdd to list DetailsIn this activity/demonstration, learners observe what happens when two ping pong balls are suspended in the air by a hair dryer. Use this activity to demonstrate how rain drops grow by coalescence....