Jumping Disk
WHY? question_guy
This is Bernoulli's Principle: Faster moving air exerts a lower pressure than the air that is not moving. The air that is trapped under the coin has more pressure than the faster moving air that you blow over the coin, and it lifts the coin up. .
ASSESSMENT: Can the student communicate what they observed?

question_guy
two This is Bernoulli's Principle: Faster moving air exerts a lower pressure than the air that is not moving. The air that is trapped under the coin has more pressure than the faster moving air that you blow over the coin, and it lifts the coin up. .

two The student is able to communicate that blowing across the top of the coin changes pressure.

two The student is able to communicate that the coin jumped due to blowing across the top of the coin.

two The student is able to communicate that the coin jumped.


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