This video shows a demonstration of two scientist testing Newtons First Laws: objects at rest stay at rest, unless an outside force acts upon it. They placed a glass of water with a baking pan with a toilet paper roll holding an egg on top on a table. The point of the experiment was to hit the pan and have the egg fall in the water directly below it. Because the egg was not in motion, when the pan was hit the egg jumped straight up and fell straight down into the water. They then repeated the experiment but this time with more eggs and glasses. The experiment succeeded again. Thus proving that an object in motion will stay at motion without any outside forces influencing it. The interesting aspect about this specific experiment was that the egg was placed up higher and was not originally inside the glass like in the class example with Ms Lawrence. This pushed the boundaries of the Law and proved more worth. I learned that no matter where the object is, if it is at rest it will stay at rest unless pushed by other resources.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Inertia
This video shows a demonstration of two scientist testing Newtons First Laws: objects at rest stay at rest, unless an outside force acts upon it. They placed a glass of water with a baking pan with a toilet paper roll holding an egg on top on a table. The point of the experiment was to hit the pan and have the egg fall in the water directly below it. Because the egg was not in motion, when the pan was hit the egg jumped straight up and fell straight down into the water. They then repeated the experiment but this time with more eggs and glasses. The experiment succeeded again. Thus proving that an object in motion will stay at motion without any outside forces influencing it. The interesting aspect about this specific experiment was that the egg was placed up higher and was not originally inside the glass like in the class example with Ms Lawrence. This pushed the boundaries of the Law and proved more worth. I learned that no matter where the object is, if it is at rest it will stay at rest unless pushed by other resources.
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First off, loved the video. Your wording is pretty clear and concise about the experiment in the video and I understand what you were trying to say completely. The only critique I have on this post is if you are going to reference Mrs. Lawrence's example in class, I would describe very briefly about what that experiment was and how the two demonstrations were different as well as how they were alike.
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