A physics video claims rubber bands don t act like springs.
Rubber band physics experiment.
Numerous laboratories and classroom demonstrations address how the tension of rubber bands increases with tem perature1 6 or to measure mechanical properties of rubber bands at room temperature 7 8 however few of these experi.
Ity to students these factors make the lowly rubber band an almost ideal material for a thermal physics experiment.
Everybody knows that when you apply a force to a spring or a rubber band it stretches.
Joerg loves rubber bands and making awesome and sometimes deadly slingshots.
A physicist would ask how is.
Dot physics blogger rhett allain tests the notion with a few custom contraptions.
Welcome to the guide to shooting rubber bands.
In this video he attempts to repeat derek muller s from veritasium experiments where he drops a stretched slinky.
The physics of shooting by tim morgan rubber bands for energy from science buddies this activity brought to you in partnership with science buddies.