SCIENCE WORKSHOP: STATICS.

In this workshop you will learn the basic principles to achieve the balance of the bodies. For a body to be in equilibrium, it is necessary to know that the set of forces adds up to zero. 

 Objective:

    -  To know the laws of statics: forces, pressure...

Methodology. 

With a series of questions and a few small indications, you will have to overcome the challenge that is proposed.

1.- You have a bottle full of water and a ping pong ball. How would you tip the full water bottle without spilling the water? (YOU ARE STUDYING ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE).

 2.- You have to cross a river and you have many profiles, but you cannot use any type of connection such as ropes, screws, etc. How would you make a bridge to cross the estuary with these profiles? (YOU ARE STUDYING BALANCE).

 

3.- How would you get a paper ball located on the neck of a lying bottle without touching the ball or the bottle? (YOU ARE STUDYING PRESSURE)

4.- You have a soda can inside a cup. How would you put the can in a basket without touching it? (YOU ARE STUDYING PRESSURE)

5.- You want to balance a soda can on an edge and you only have water. How would you do it?

(YOU ARE STUDYING CENTER OF GRAVITY AND BALANCE). 

6.- You want to move a ping pong ball from one place to another without touching it and you only have one cup to do it. How would you do it knowing that you can not put the cup sideways? (YOU ARE STUDYING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE)

7.- You want to hold an object outside of a glass with a playing card. How would you do it if you can only use water? (YOU ARE STUDYING SURFACE TENSION OF LIQUIDS).

8.- How would you stick the paper (in the figure) on the ground without touching it with a soda straw?

(YOU ARE STUDYING FLOOR EFFECT).

9.- How would you cross a potato with a simple soda straw holding it with only two fingers (index and thumb)? (YOU ARE STUDYING PRESSURE)

10.- We have a newspaper, a ruler and we want to pass a tennis ball to another table by bouncing on the ruler, but the ruler cannot rest on the table more than 10 cm from the table. How would you do it? (YOU ARE STUDYING PRESSURE).

11.- How would you remove a coin that is on a credit card, which is on a bottle without grabbing it and without the coin falling? (YOU ARE STUDYING THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION AND REACTION).

12.- You have a bill trapped between two bottles as in the figure. How would you remove the bill without dropping the bottles and without grabbing the bill? (YOU ARE STUDYING INERTIA)

13.- You have two glasses and a sheet of paper. How would you hold a third glass between the two glasses using just th sheet of paper? (YOU ARE STUDYING EFFORTS AND PROFILES)

14.- You have two matches stuck making a triangle and you place another third match making a pyramid. How to catch the three matches using another match? (YOU ARE STUDYING BALANCE)

15.- How would you remove the sheet of paper without dropping the coins in the figure without grabbing the sheet of paper? (YOU ARE STUDYING 1st AND 3rd LAW OF DYNAMICS)

16.- How would you hold a ping-pong ball in the air with a hair dryer not perpendicular to the ground? (YOU ARE STUDYING THE VENTURI EFFECT).

17.- You have a glass full of water and a sheet of paper and you have to overturn the glass without spilling the water. How would you do it? (YOU ARE STUDYING ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE).

18.- Imagine that you have to support a statue between three pillars with only three profiles with the length of said profile without using points, ropes, or any other element, as you can see in the figure. How would you do it? (YOU ARE STUDYING STRUCTURES).