Both will hit the ground at the same time! 4. Fill one to the top with water and leave the other empty. Take two water empty water bottles that are the same size. This means the air resistance is the same for both objects, so the only difference is the weight. While you won’t be able to replicate a hammer or heavy ball and feather falling, you can investigate with two objects that are the same size but different weights. You should end up with a colourful stack of liquids! Carefully pour a small amount of each into a tall jar or glass starting with the most dense. Choose a selection of liquids and place them in density order, from the most dense to the least dense.

One fun way to demonstrate density is to make a density column. He realised that the volume of water displaced was equal to the volume of his body in the water.Īrchimedes placed the crown in water to work out its density and realised the goldsmith had cheated the king! Density Experiment According to the story, Archimedes was having a bath one day when he realised that the water level rose as he lowered himself into the bathtub. Archimedes realised that if he could measure the volume of the crown, he could work out its density, but calculating the volume of a crown shape was a tough challenge. The crown weighed the same as the gold the King had given the goldsmith, but gold is more dense than silver, so if there was silver in the crown its density would be less than if it was pure gold. Archimedes needed to work out if the goldsmith had cheated without damaging the crown. The story behind Archimedes’ discovery of density is that he was asked by the King of Sicily to work out whether a goldsmith had replaced some gold from a crown with silver. This list of 5 physics experiments you can try at home is a great starting point for understanding physics and, hopefully a source of inspiration for little scientists everywhere! Physics experiments you can do at home 1. While some aspects may seem tricky to understand, many fundamental physics concepts can be broken down into simple concepts, some of which can be demonstrated using basic equipment at home. Physics is key to understanding the world around us.

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