Falling Cup with Ball Model

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Falling Cup with Ball Model

written by Wolfgang Christian

The Falling Cup with Ball model shows a mass attached to the inside of a cup with a light spring. The cup is held upside down, with the mass hanging out of the cup, then released from rest. What happens when the cup is released?

The mass will extend the spring, like a parachute, due to air pressure pulling on the cup.
The mass will be pulled up into the cup by the spring?
The cup will fall with the mass in its original position?

The Falling Cup with Ball model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double click the ejs_mech_newton_FallingCupWithBall.jar file to run the program if Java is installed.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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Published: September 1, 2009
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General - Motion in One Dimension = Gravitational Acceleration = Velocity - Newton's Second Law = Force, Acceleration	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license. Additional information is available.
Rights Holder:: Wolfgang Christian
Keywords:: free fall, weightless
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created September 1, 2009 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 6, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: September 1, 2009
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