Experiment Mc-03

Inertia Block

Description: A string is looped around a heavy block which is free to slide along the table.  When the string is pulled gently and uniformly, the block is easily pulled along the table.  When the string is jerked, however, it will always break.

 

Block being pulled along table.

 

Stationary block and broken string.

 

 

Materials: block on rollers, string

 

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