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