Eggs And Pizza Pan

Eggs balanced on toilet paper rolls on a pizza pan sitting on top of three beakers of water
PIRA: 
1F20.35
Area: 
1 Mechanics
Topic: 
1F Newton's First Law
Concept: 
Inertia of Rest

 

Knock out the pizza pan, and the wooden eggs drop into three beakers of water.

This demo requires practice! The pizza pan is knocked out best with a broomstick, providing you don't shatter the beakers.

 

Demo Contact

Scott Thomas
Demonstration Manager
828-262-2435
thomassa@appstate.edu