By inertia
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To show how friction affects inertia.
Mechanics
Kinematics, dynamics and statics, Newton's laws, gravitation, friction, the motion of liquids and gases.
Material on this topic
The water plug
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To find out how large an opening has to be for water to pour out of a can.
A race between pendulums
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To show how energy is exchanged between two coupled pendulums.
The balloon rocket
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To demonstrate jet propulsion.
The helicopter
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To find out how the weight of a paper helicopter affects its speed of rotation.
Right or left
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To determine how the position of the wings decides which way the helicopter turns.
Which way the boat goes
AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To demonstrate Newton's law of action and reaction.
7 substances that break the rules of physics
There are many surprising things and unusual materials in the world, but these can fairly claim a place in the category of “the most surprising of those thought up by people”.
Amontons, Guillaume
Guillaume Amontons (31.08.1663 - 11.10.1705) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699).
Archimedes
Archimedes (about 287-212 BC) was an ancient Greek scientist.
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista
Giovanni Battista Benedetti (14.08.1530-20.1.1590) was an Italian scientist.
Boyle, Robert
Robert Boyle (25.01.1627-30.12.1691) was an English chemist, physicist and philosopher and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1663).
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Ludwig Boltzmann (20.02.1844 - 5.09.1906) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the founders of classical statistical physics and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1895).
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Percy Williams Bridgman (21.04.1882-20.08.1961) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Van 't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (30.08.1852—1.03.1911) was a Dutch physical chemist and one of the founders of physical chemistry and stereochemistry.
Vereshchagin, Leonid Fedorovich
Leonid Fedorovich Vereshchagin (29.04.1909—20.02.1977) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1966; corresponding member 1960).
Galilei, Galileo
Galileo Galilei (15.02.1564-8.01.1642) was an outstanding Italian physicist and astronomer, one of the founders of exact natural science and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1611).
Hooke, Robert
Robert Hooke (18.07.1635-3.03.1703) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1663) and its secretary in 1677 — 83.
Huygens, Christiaan
Christiaan Huygens (14.04.1629-8.07.1695) was a Dutch physicist, mechanician, mathematician and astronomer.
Descartes, René
René Descartes (Latinised name Cartesius) (31.03.1596-11.02.1650) was a French philosopher, physicist, mathematician and physiologist.