Circle of Pong

If floating were easy, everyone would do it! How does the Coanda Effect work? A video from a fascinating physics playlist shows how balanced upward and downward forces float a ping pong ball in a stream of air.

A blow dryer and ping pong balls are all you need to demonstrate the amazing properties of air flow. In this demonstration, Spangler has a three year old boy as his assistant. Together, they make ping pong balls, a beach ball, and a roll...

In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity. [4:34]

We upgrade our ping pong ball launcher (created in an earlier video) to make it safer, more accurate and more reliable. Includes ongoing explanation of the design and re-design processes and the rationale behind each change made.

This woodworking project shows you how to build an adjustable projectile launcher intended to launch ping pong balls. [10:27]

This project shows you how to build a ping pong and test an adjustable ping pong ball launcher. [10:26]

An activity where students demonstrate elastic potential energy and gravitational potential energy by looking at the travel height of a ping pong when dropped vs a ping pong dropped with a "dropper popper".

Check out this ping pong ball explosion demonstration which happens as a result of liquid nitrogen expanding quickly. [4:14]

This brief video highlights the projectile (ping pong ball) launcher. [1:40]

With this project you'll send ping pong balls flying through the air with a rubber-band powered catapult. This catapult makes it easy to reproduce the launch angle, and to measure the amount of force applied to the projectile. Armed with...