
Demonstrating The Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Electric Circuits are an essential topic that cover the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, the flow of current and the concept of voltage. In...

Kinetic Energy Demonstrated With Newton's Cradle & Colliding Steel Spheres
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Centripetal Force Demonstrated With a Twirling Tray
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A Better way of Demonstrating Rotational Inertia
Subscribe to the CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when our next blog is released. Featured Products A Better Way of Demonstrating Rotational Inertia Have you ever struggled to describe Rotational Inertia to your students? Even worse, have you ever struggled...

Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction & Interference...That's COOL!
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Principia Mathematica: Let's Revisit Newton's Laws

Calories From a Heat Pack
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Five Demonstrations for the First Day of Class!
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Three Right Hand Rules of Electromagnetism
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The Physics of a Roller Coaster Loop
Click here to subscribe to our CoolStuff Newsletter and get notified when the next blog is released. Featured Products The Physics of a Roller Coaster Loop Each year millions of people will visit amusement parks in order to ride some...