Science Gizmo: NEWTONS FLYING BEADS

Science Gizmo: NEWTONS FLYING BEADS

• This Newtons Flying Beads science gizmo demonstrates Newton's First Law when an object in motion will remain in motion until an external force acts on it.
• This hard to demonstrate when you live on planet Earth but is much easier in space.
• A 13-metre string of beads ‘lifts’ itself from the glass showing low friction is attained and the beads accelerate as the motion continues.
• The beads will seem to be suspended in air above the rim of the glass due to inertia.
• Price is for one.
  (Note: Image is for reference only. The beads we have are multi-coloured and comes in a plastic cup as displayed)

Science Gizmos are fun way to demonstrate and show the properties, mechanics and applications used and taught in Physics and Chemistry laboratories.
By using simple easy-to-use apparatus specific to the target theme or topic, understand the scientific reasons why a particular thing works the way it does and enjoy the excitement of discovering how it works.
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(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."...A gizmo is a gadget, especially one whose real name is unknown or forgotten.... A gadget is a mechanical device or any ingenious article.[2] Gadgets are sometimes referred to as gizmos. ...The etymology of the word is disputed. The word first appears as reference to an 18th-century tool in glassmaking that was developed as a spring pontil.[3] As stated in the glass dictionary published by the Corning Museum of Glass, a gadget is a metal rod with a spring clip that grips the foot of a vessel and so avoids the use of a pontil".

Gadgets were first used in the late 18th century.[4] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print.[5]...")

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