Student Experiments

She went on to explain that the egg is at rest and since she doesn't touch the egg itself, it stays in place. When she knocked away the toilet paper roll, with the pie pan, the egg stayed in it's place (in the air). Since nothing was holding it up any longer, the egg dropped straight down into the cup. (if her teacher hadn't accidentally turned off the camera you would have heard that part. - oops)

These girls used a penny to demonstrate Newton's first law of motion (Inertia). It was hard to line the penny up exactly over the opening of the bottle, but they finally got it!!!