61 Funky Physics Experiments

You will need: Balloon Kebab stick What happens when you puncture a balloon?It bursts. What if we told you there was a wayto skewer balloons without bursting them?Ask your friends to try. When they cannotfigure out, show them this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Before performing this in front of your friends, practise it for a few times […]

You will need: Cardboard roll (foundunder kitchen tissueroll) 2-3 metres of thin elastic(or elastic drawstring) Strong tape A table Learn the physics behind the flying tubes, by competing with your friends to see whose tube flies the farthest. INSTRUCTIONS Place the table outdoors so that you may not break anything while conducting this experiment indoors.

You will need: Deck of Card Here’s a new twist to a card game. After many experiments which also serve as neat magic tricks, it’s time to go back to the age-old card trick. But this one has a twist. INSTRUCTIONS Before you begin ask your friends which the fastest and straightestway for a card

You will need: Spaghetti Challenge a friend to do this simple game. No matterhow many times he tries, he will never get it right. INSTRUCTIONS Try it yourself, or ask a friend, to snap a piece of spaghetti with his hands. The trick is not to break it in more than 2 pieces. RESULT Try

You will need: 6-7 large round balloons Small objects (like coinswith smooth steel nuts,etc.) Blindfold Understand physics and play a game at the same time. As a party game try this experiment and learn something new. Who says games cannot teach us anything? INSTRUCTIONS Before you begin the game make sure that the balloons are

You will need: Cotton thread Small bottle of water orany drink (filled) Scissors Understand the laws of shock loading by carrying out a simple project with your household items. Do be careful not to hurt yourself though. INSTRUCTIONS Cut out 2-3 large pieces of thread(about 40 cm in length). Tie one end each of both

You will need: An empty small plasticbottle Large coin Freezer Tissue paper Launch a coin into the air with nothing morethan an empty bottle, some tissue paper andphysics. Follow the experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Place an empty plastic bottle into the freezer for anhour with the lid on. After an hour, without removing the bottle from thefreezer,

You will need: A smooth, non-slipperyfloor Super bouncy ball Low table with a smoothunderside Open place Try yet another trick with your bouncing ball and watch the ball bounce back at you. INSTRUCTIONS Perform this experiment in a room with no delicate/breakable objects around, or in the open place. Take your super bouncy ball and

You will need: Large uncooked, rawpotato Simple drinking straw For your next party, try this trick. Ask your friends to push a straw through an uncooked, raw potato. When they try and fail (which they will), show them the right way to pierce a potato. INSTRUCTIONS Practise this experiment a few times before you perform

You will need: Oil (preferably baby oil) Water 2 large transparent glassbowls or beakers 2 measuring rods or anyother small clear glassobjects Try this science experiment to make glass disappear and befool everyone with simple physics. INSTRUCTIONS Take 2 large transparent glass bowls or beakers. Fill one with water and the other with baby oil

You will need: Large plastic bottle Something to makeholes in the bottle A flashlight or torch Water Fibre optics is all the rage in today’s day and age. But how does fibre optics work, and how does it emit light only at the very end of the long fibre? Understand the science behind fibre optics

You will need: Sugar lumps Pliers Plate We use sugar every day in our food. But do you know that something as simple as sugar can also glow in the dark? Try out this simple experiment to find out how and why. INSTRUCTIONS Take sugar lumps on a plate and along with your friends find

You will need: 2 identical drinkingglasses (preferablyplastic, so they don’tbreak in case they fall) Tissue paper Hot water Simply stick two drinking glasses together with nothing else but hot air. Follow the instructions. INSTRUCTIONS Take some hot water and pour it into each of the two plastic glasses, until the glasses are half full. Swish

You will need: A large piece of cardboard String Marker Pen cap (or something ofthat weight) Plastic mug Small piece of wire (or theplastic-bag tie) Create your own medieval war in your backyard by constructing these trebuchets to plough down the ‘enemy’ forts. INSTRUCTIONS The trebuchet works on the same principlesas those of the see-saw.

You will need: A large plastic bottle Scissors A few eggs (in case yourpractice egg breaks!) Cello tape Water Salt We all have at some point or the other triedthis experiment. And we all have also at somepoint or the other failed this experiment. Butfollow the steps below and you will find afullproof way of