Set includes:
- Hammer and steel slug attached to vertical tubes.
- Happy/sad balls
- Astro blaster
- Bag of sand
- Spring loaded hopper thingy
- Dropper Popper
- Marbles
Explore the physical properties that contribute to an object’s bounciness.
bounce
Dropper Popper
- The “Dropper Popper” bounces about 2 meters high, no matter what height it is released from.
- The rubber half-sphere (as seen on left, in above image), can be turned inside out (as seen on right). Stored energy is instantly released when popper turns right-side-out; and, if resting on a flat surface, will launch about 2 meters high. To trigger this, popper must be dropped, flat, onto a hard surface.
- Hold and release popper as shown in top image, away from body.
- If having difficulty dropping it perfectly flat, spin it like a frisbee while releasing.
- Located in L02, section B4.
Marble Bounce
- Glass has a very high coefficient of restitution. This makes glass marbles very bouncy, if dropped on very hard surfaces. When a marble is dropped onto the head of a hardened steel hammer (as shown on the left in the above photo) the marble bounces almost back up to the height of release. If dropped onto the surface of non-hardened steel (as shown on the right) the marble only bounces about 2/3 of the way back up.
- Located in L02, section B4