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Feather Drop
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This video shows how steel balls and a feather fall in air and in a good vacuum. The motion is well illuminated and captured clearly in the video, and arrows help make clear the locations of the objects as they fall. A physicist explains what is happening.
http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Motion, Forces, and Energy
- Applications of Newton's Laws
= Friction
- Motion in One Dimension
= Gravitational Acceleration
- Informal Education
- Lower Undergraduate
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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Record Cloner: Metadata instance created November 29, 2012 by Ed Lee
Record Updated: Nov 29, 2012 by Ed Lee
Last Update
when Cataloged:		 November 1, 2012
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AIP Format
(Science and Technology Facilities Council, Near Swindon town, 2012), WWW Document, (http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html).
AJP/PRST-PER
Feather Drop (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Near Swindon town, 2012), <http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html>.
APA Format
Feather Drop. (2012, November 1). Retrieved April 15, 2026, from Science and Technology Facilities Council: http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html
Chicago Format
Science and Technology Facilities Council. Feather Drop. Near Swindon town: Science and Technology Facilities Council, November 1, 2012. http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html (accessed 15 April 2026).
MLA Format
Feather Drop. Near Swindon town: Science and Technology Facilities Council, 2012. 1 Nov. 2012. 15 Apr. 2026 <http://www.backstagescience.com/videos/feather_drop.html>.
BibTeX Export Format
@misc{ Title = {Feather Drop}, Publisher = {Science and Technology Facilities Council}, Volume = {2026}, Number = {15 April 2026}, Month = {November 1, 2012}, Year = {2012} }
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