Balancing Sculptures - At home science - ExpeRimental #10

Make an incredible gravity-defying balancing structure and investigate the science of stability.
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Gail Cardew and her daughters, Xanthe, Roxana and Evanthia do science at home. In this experiment, they build increasingly complicated balancing structures to investigate the science of stability and balance. They discover how lowering an object’s centre of mass can affect its balance. Using kebab sticks, sweets, and fruits they get a taste for how important balance is when building everything from sports cars to skyscrapers. By tweaking and developing their designs they perfect their beautiful creations and create increasingly ambitious structures.
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[@gainiq1384]

The demonstration with the tape is so simple and clear, it was the first time I truly grasped it.

[@kimiediaries]

THANK YOU FOR THIS. such a great help for teaching my kids

[@abhisheksuri5618]

This is how school should be, like Magic

[@bander544]

9.8 THANK YOU

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

In the last instalment of the first series of ExpeRimental, Gail and her daughters investigate the science of stability by building amazing balancing sculptures. Another great activity to try at home with your children.

[@martoantoniuk]

This videos are great. Thank you so much for the ideas. I will try them :)

[@DaBBoSaH]

really nice vid, first time I learn the science of this, sad but oh well...

[@TechDude3000]

"At home science" They predicted Covid-19!

[@timmy9138]

Public school? Never heard of it 😩🙏

[@brickyboy5101]

Why

[@shawniscoolerthanyou]

Cute! "Now we're going to explore free-body diagrams!"

[@nootkpr]

"so children, now I've briefly shown you some sculptures, work out the torque that the marshmallow is producing with relation to the washing up liquid and the angular acceleration that the sculpture would undergo if I removed the jelly bean."

[@shawniscoolerthanyou]

nootkpr Ha ha! A 3 gram steel paper clip has been placed on a skewer of radius r. A uniform magnetic field of .06 T is directed downward. The structure is balanced. Calculate the mass of the little skeleton guy if he is a radius 3r/4 in the opposite direction of the paper clip.

[@AnthonyTon]

Will there be a series 3 soon? I really enjoyed doing some of the experiments with the pupils I teach in school.

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

AnthonyTon Great to hear you're doing the experiments! We're not currently making any more ExpeRimental films, but watch this space in the future - we'd like to do more when we can.

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I call some ballenc hacks XD

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[@winstonchurchill8300]

These women were cheating. They didn't figure it out themselves, the older one told them how to do it!

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