| For this science project your will need | | | | What you are going to do is quickly |
| to following items: | | | | smack the pie plate with the palm of |
| 1 egg | | | | your hand and when you do the pie plate |
| 1 pie plate (preferably aluminum or | | | | will go flying and the tube will topple |
| metal. Do not get a glass pie plate. | | | | over and the egg should fall straight |
| 1 cardboard tube from a roll of toilet | | | | down into the glass of water. You will |
| paper. | | | | need to make sure to hit the pie plate |
| 1 glass of water. Make sure it is a real | | | | hard enough and fast enough to do this |
| glass cup and is a larger glass that is | | | | but you want to stop your hand after the |
| wider on top. | | | | smack so that you do not hit the glass |
| You are going to test the Newton law of | | | | of water and make it fall over and |
| motion with this and it is almost like a | | | | spill. |
| magic trick because of the quickness of | | | | What happens is that the egg is not |
| your hand in making this science project | | | | moving. Of course, nothing is, but the |
| work well or correctly. This is like the | | | | egg is stationary and you are using |
| trick where someone pulls out the table | | | | physics and applying force to the plate |
| cloth from under all the place settings | | | | while allowing the egg to still remain |
| above while leaving the dishes intact on | | | | motionless so that you quickly just |
| the table. Here you will not necessarily | | | | removed the cardboard tube like it |
| leave something intact but it should not | | | | vanished and left the egg still |
| go flying away. You are going to prove | | | | motionless all by itself in the air. The |
| that the egg remains motionless and | | | | only thing left is that it cannot stay |
| simply when left without support falls | | | | up by itself so gravity pulls it |
| straight down only due to the force of | | | | downward. No friction is applied to the |
| gravity. | | | | plate just plain force and the edge of |
| Get a glass and fill 2/3 full of water. | | | | the pie plate grabs the tube and forces |
| Make sure the glass is tall enough and | | | | out from under the egg. For a brief |
| wide enough and is made of glass. You | | | | millisecond the egg was suspended in the |
| will be setting a pie plate on it and | | | | air. Once the egg started moving |
| you want the glass to be stable so it | | | | downward it will not want to stop but |
| does not get knocked over easily. | | | | now was interrupted by the water which |
| Place an aluminum pie plate centered on | | | | provided a haven for the egg to once |
| top of the glass of water. Then get a | | | | again become motionless. You could test |
| cardboard tube from a roll of toilet | | | | taller glasses and more or less water to |
| paper and place in the middle of the pie | | | | see if the splash is less. You could |
| plate standing straight up and down. Now | | | | also try using a different fluid in the |
| place your egg on top of the cardboard | | | | glass to see what happens and record |
| tube. | | | | your results. This is too cool. |