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DCS# 1G20.38

EINSTEIN TOY



APPARATUS
Einstein toy
JLS


DESCRIPTION
It is difficult to get the balls into the cup, unless you drop the whole thing -- in free fall the rubber bands pull the balls in nicely every time.  This illustrates the principle of equivalence.  (Eric Rogers gave such a toy to Einstein.)
-JLS
NOTES
Joe took his home, but it's easy to make one.  See, for example:  http://www.exploratorium.edu/nobel/nobel_activity.pdf or Freier and Anderson, Fl-5.