Chapter: Learning Science through Activities and Toys. SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS & AMUSEMENTS FOR CHILDREN BY CHARLES VIVIAN. Simple Technical Steped Practical Projects for school and college students.
String and Sticky Tape Experiments
String and Sticky Tape Experiments
We live in a vicarious age.
We often experience the world through TV rather than doing the touching and
feeling ourselves. Physics is an experimental science and only by doing
"hands-on" experiments, messing around with equipment will you get a
feel of it. Most physics gear sold to schools is too expensive to allow
students to work with it alone, and to have the teacher hovering by is
inhibiting. To avoid this the equipment must either be very strong,
unbreakable, in fact, so cheap it can be replaced at little cost. The
String and Sticky Tape Experiments column was introduced in the magazine The Physics Teacher in the early 80's. It showed experiments using
the simplest, least expensive materials. The materials could be purchased at
the nearest store - you did not anything expensive - not even need a stopwatch.
All you needed were common rubber bands, cello tape, Styrofoam or paper cups,
string, drinking straws, glass marbles, plastic ruler, coins, pencil, paper and
scissors.
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