2. Step 1
Fill the large drinking glass about three-quarters full with water and center the pie
pan on top of the glass. Place the cardboard tube on the plate, positioning it
directly over the water. Carefully set the egg (or practice ball) on top of the
cardboard tube.
Step 2
With your writing hand, smack the edge of the pie pan
When you push the
horizontally. Make sure you follow-through (tennis,
anyone?). It’s important that you use a pretty solid hit, so plate and the tub
the egg wont go
plan on chasing the plate and tube.
Step 3 with them, instead Susana Gonzalez #14
Your astonished guests will watch the egg plop
nicely into the water. It’s even more fun to watch
the egg will stay in Maria Laura Guerra #15
someone else try to drop the egg. Science is so
place and drop to
cool!
Alana Gonzales #11
the glass
Isabella Campa #3
The Egg Drop is a classic
science demonstration that
illustrates Newton's Laws of
Motion, namely inertia. The The law of
challenge sounds so newton called
simple... just get the egg inertia is
into the glass of water, but
there are a few obstacles.
proved by the
The egg is perched high egg falling to
above the water on a the glass filled
cardboard tube, and a pie with water
plate sits between the tube
and the water. Still think it's
easy? Sir Isaac Newton
does.
