Course Detail
Units:
0.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Course Attribute:
University Connected Learning
Description
Ever wonder how an airplane flies or a rocket works? In this class you will learn about forces and the laws of motion, inertia, gravity, friction, air pressure, adhesion and cohesion, sound, and buoyancy. Design and 'blast off' a bottle rocket and build your own spaceship that glides. Experiment with groove tubes, expanding gases, dancing raisins, and giant soap bubbles. Make a paper helicopter, homemade thunder, a clay boat float, simple musical instruments, a balancing acrobat, flying ping pong balls?and MORE. Come have a lot of hands-on FUN while learning some of the most fundamental principles of physics.