Jul 28, 2013

Experiment 3: Inertia

Find out about inertia with an orange, card, and a mug. (This idea comes from 50 Science Things to Make & Do by Usborne.)
Inertia measures how hard it is for a force to move an object. The orange has high inertia, because it's heavier (so it drops instead of being jerked aside), and the column has low inertia, because it's lighter (so it's easily thrown aside). 

What about a bus and a feather? Which has more inertia?

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