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New Demo: 7 Inertia Demos

Published by sciencefix August 23rd, 2005 in Demos, Video and Lessons.

This video clip shows 7 demonstrations of Newton’s first law of motion–the law of inertia. Newton’s law of inertia states that objects moving at constant velocity will continue moving at constant velocity, unless acted upon by an outside unbalanced force. Six of these demonstrations (excluding demo 6) are from Tik Liem’s book Invitations to Science Inquiry. I have students volunteer to do all demos, except demo 5. All of the students in class receive a handout that they must fill in so that they understand how inertia is demonstrated and all the forces that are involved.

9 Responses to “New Demo: 7 Inertia Demos”

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  1. 1 dj holmes Jun 27th, 2006 at 6:03 am

    sick experiments!

  2. 2 Bárbara Dec 28th, 2006 at 10:50 am

    Very interesting.

    Can I use this in my Physics lessons?

    Thanks! :)

    Happy New Year!

  3. 3 sciencefix Dec 28th, 2006 at 3:31 pm

    Please use it, that is what it for.

  4. 4 Andy Jones Jan 26th, 2007 at 12:15 am

    I am a science teacher and would like to show some of your demonstrations to my class. (specifically the 7 inertia demos at the moment) but my school blocks video websites. Are these files available for stand alone download?

  5. 5 sciencefix Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Thanks for your comments. You can download all the videos at Google Video at http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=sciencefix&so=1&start=0. Click on one of the videos and there will be a “download” for window/mac button to the right. You will need to have the Google Video Player (http://video.google.com/playerdownload) downloaded onto your computer to play it back.

  6. 6 gabrielle Dec 19th, 2007 at 1:11 am

    thank you for this it really helped me understand interia also i used the one with a beaker and a penny and paper foe my project!

  7. 7 sciencefix Dec 19th, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you were able to learn from the demo and use it!

  8. 8 Brian Oct 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 am

    This is awesome! One question though. I like the other teacher, cannot access this video online via google video as it is blocked. I tried using the links you provided above - and there is no download button. Is there another way to access or download this video?

    Also, I clicked on the link for the paper you use for the demos - and the link takes me to a non-link, document not found page.

    Please help! Ahh!

    Thanks in advance,

    Brian

  9. 9 sciencefix Oct 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 am

    Thanks for the comment. The link below will send you to the new (slightly different) quicktime movie video of the demos (which you can download to your computer).
    http://blip.tv/file/428283?filename=Sciencefix-InertiaDemos393.mov

    This link will send you to the word document handout
    http://sciencefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/inertia_demos.doc

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