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A very beautiful experience can be done with a dry stick. True, it does not work right away and requires some training.

Pick up a thin, dry stick about one meter long. Glue two paper rings together. Ask two friends to hold these rings on the blades of table knives, as shown in the picture. Insert the ends of the stick into the rings.

Now take another stick, heavier, and hit it in the middle of the hanging stick. Don't be afraid to damage the paper rings. They are more likely to remain intact, the harder you hit. The knives will not cut the paper, and the hanging stick will be broken!

Dry stick experience

You can practice so much that this experiment will work out with rings not from plain paper, but from tissue paper and even with hair loops!

The reason is the same - inertia. The hanging stick seeks to maintain a state of rest. A push with a sufficiently sharp impact does not have time to spread. The stick breaks before the shock reaches its ends.

Author: Galpershtein L.Ya.

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