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