Sunday, February 26, 2012

Physics Illusion

While observing a high school physics class two days ago, a student asked if he could perform a physics experiment.  The teacher said sure and he then went about gathering a 12" ruler, a string, and a hammer.  Before I knew it the hammer was dangling from a ruler.  The tricky part was only an inch of the ruler was touching the table.  This is hard to explain, so I went home and decided to do the experiment myself and it worked!

 




This experiment is kind of hard to picture in a photograph.  Check out this video.