61 Funky Physics Experiments

You will need: Thin wooden ruler (notmore than 1/8th of aninch) Newspaper Smooth table, withplenty of open spacearound Would you believe it if someone told you that they could break a ruler with nothing else but some newspaper and air? If you thought they were joking, then think again. Conduct this experiment to find out

You will need: An empty soda can Hot water Gas stove Shallow dish Iced chilled water Tongs We all have seen explosions take place in movies. What if you could try creating your very own implosion using basic household items? INSTRUCTIONS Fill 1-2 inches of an empty soda can with hot water. Ask an adult

You will need: Sturdy paper plate Plastic glass Water 6 feet of string Try this fun experiment to learn all aboutcentripetal force, but trust in physics; otherwise,you are going to get water all over yourself. INSTRUCTIONS Try this experiment outdoors. Take a sturdy paper plate and make three holes around the circumference, equidistant to one

You will need: Glass Water Soap (any brand of ivorysoap works best) Microwave Paper plate or a shallowplastic dish Create amazing soap sculptures with your friends by using three simple ingredients and your mom’s permission! INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, get this experiment approved by your parent. For this experiment, you have to use soap, which if put

You will need: Large see-through glassjar Water Kebab stick Jelly sweets (or anysweets which are softenough to be punctured) Try this fun experiment at home as a gamewith your friends, and learn about refractionof light which creates an optical illusion. INSTRUCTIONS Fill the glass jar with water and place a long kebab stick into the

You will need: A shallow dish Water Mirror Torch or sunlight White paper Looking at the seven coloured hues in the skymakes us all happy. But how and why dorainbows actually occur? Understand the sciencebehind them by conducting this experimentrather than reading it theoretically. INSTRUCTIONS Take the shallow dish andfill it with water. Submerge half

You will need: Thick marker pen Palm-size white paper Clear/Transparent glass Water You don’t need to have fancy gadgets or years of practice to become a magician. Sometimes all you need to perform a magic trick is a strong foundation in science. Try this simple experiment and amaze all your friends, that too without any

You will need: Olive oil Sunflower or normalcooking oil 2 clear glasses Green laser pointer We all love glow in the dark objects, but why do they glow? Understand why fluorescent objects glow, by simply conducting this experiment using a few household products. INSTRUCTIONS Pour olive oil into a clear glass till it is half

You will need: Large shallow container Clear nail polish Water Old newspaper Black construction paper Who doesn’t love a rainbow? But these beautifuloccurrences in Nature disappear just as quicklyas they appear. Follow this experiment tocapture the rainbow on paper permanently. INSTRUCTIONS Fill the container with water about half way. Next, place the black construction paper

You will need: A can of regularsweetened soda (i.e.Coke or Pepsi) A can of diet soda(preferably of the samecompany, i.e. diet Cokeor diet Pepsi) A large bucket of water Next time, you run out of games to play, challenge your friends to answer this question and find out not just how many were right but

You will need: A clear glass Water Square piece of cardpaper or cardboard(palm-sized) Conduct this simple experiment to defy the laws of gravity by applying some simple laws of physics. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, this experiment can getmessy fast. So, conduct it over thekitchen sink or outdoors. Fill a glass with water almost all theway to the

You will need: Tea bag (unused) Matchsticks Non-flammable surface Display a bit of pyro techniques with this experiment and show off to your friends how an everyday object, like a tea bag, can be made into something unique. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, prepare your tea bag to become a rocket. Carefully remove the staple and thread holding

You will need: Plastic bottle Uncooked rice Pencil Use friction to create an amazing magic trick with simple household ingredients and some practice. INSTRUCTIONS Take an empty dry plastic bottle and fill it till the brim with uncooked rice grains. Keep tapping the bottle in between while filling it with rice so as to remove

You will need: A clear glass Water Some coins Saucer or plate Challenge your friends into trying to raise the water level in a glass higher than the glass itself. When they don’t know how to do so, pull this neat little trick. INSTRUCTIONS This experiment can get messy, so place a large plate or

You will need: Plastic bottle Needle Bucket Small stool Water Conduct a simple yet totally fun experiment to see how gravity works and what it must be like with no gravity in outer space. INSTRUCTIONS Take a plastic bottle and ask an adult to make a small hole on the side of the bottle with