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Pencils Bounced Into Cups

By Janice VanCleave

Pencils Bounced into cups

A pencil can be bounced so that it traces out the path of a projectile resulting in the pencil landing in a glass as shown in the video below. In the video, pencils are bounced by dropping them on their eraser end. Depending on how the pencils are dropped, the trajectory path of some of […]

Filed Under: Force and Motion, Physics Tagged With: pencil projectile, projectiles

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