{"id":3539,"date":"2015-06-16T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/falling-slinky\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:11:01","slug":"falling-slinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/falling-slinky\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Slinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rIebiUiZak&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/falling-slinky-video.png\" alt=\"Falling Slinky Demo Picture\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bottom of slinky in free fall remains motionless until slinky is totally contracted.<\/li>\n<li>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rIebiUiZak&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Slow motion video of Jonathan dropping slinky<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tdh_R7po6Dw\">slow-mo video<\/a>. Until fully contracted, the bottom of the slinky seems\u00a0oblivious to the fact that it has been dropped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Slinky located in L02, section C-2 (in plastic tub with other springs, and ropes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bottom of slinky in free fall remains motionless until slinky is totally contracted. See: Slow motion video of Jonathan dropping slinky. Here&#8217;s another slow-mo video. Until fully contracted, the bottom of the slinky seems\u00a0oblivious to the fact that it has been dropped. Slinky located in L02, section C-2 (in plastic tub with other springs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/falling-slinky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falling Slinky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,6,65],"tags":[228,451,470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}