What would happen if one put a slinky on an escalator?
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It would probably go for hours and hours just about to set a very exciting new world record.  Guiness Book would be on hand with media and the slinky's family and friends.  In the last minutes of a day long adventure for the slinky, a group of teenage girls on cell phones would walk up to the escalator.  As if anticipating what would happen next everyone starts running, seeminly in slow motion, towards the girls to stop them from getting on the escalator.  No one would make it in time and the girls, completely disregarding everyones work, run straight into the little slinky stopping it in it's tracks.  The poor guy is so devastated all his work is lost that he doesn't even noticed he is approaching the top of the escalator.  Suddenly he is partially sucked in.  Building maintenance comes out to rescue him, but after hours of work they just couldn't bring him out in one piece.  They had to amputate.  The poor little guy spends the rest of his existence as the slinky that you can only get to go down one stair before it flops over and stops.  It's sad really.
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My friends & I like to make this move on the rollercoaster, right at the spot where the camera is. \n\nWe take a teacup glued to a saucer & a pot, one will hold the cup while the other pours tea out of the pot\n\nOr try hands of cards glued together and pretend to be playing...\n\nFun pics.\n\nIf you are asking about making a toy rollercoaster move- the only thing I can suggest is "Gravity: It's The Law!"
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you will have to be in one point in the building to hear that the object will sound like a "musical scale going" down as it drops... but since objects on free fall accelerate, you would hear the 'musical scale going down" only at a very short time...\nso when you listen, listen carefully...
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With no gravity, if I pushed the pendulum bob, it would travel around the fulcrum forever until some other force stopped it or until the friction stopped the motion, or the string wound itself up. \n\nIn the simple pendulum, there gravity provides a restoring force. \n\nIf I did not push the plumb bob, then if I just pulled the plumb bob back, it would stay where I left it, and not oscillate. However, as said above, some debris might strike it (a very low probability event) and cause it to move.
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Play with it when its soft.
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A quick history (short, therefore not boring)\n\n\n\nThe Slinky has been used as a toy by millions of adults and children around the world. It was invented in 1943 by Richard James and it was first marketed in 1945. The Slinky was originally made near the Philadelphia area, but shortly thereafter it was moved to Hollidaysburg, PA where it has remained for the last 40 some years. The Slinky toy can not only be used for entertainment, but it can also be used in physics classes to demonstrate wave properties, forces, and energy states.\n\n"Richard James invented the Slinky by accident. He was trying to develop a spring that could help keep sensitive ship-board instruments steady at sea. He knocked some of these experimental springs off a shelf, and was amused by the way they "walked" down, rather than just falling." from The Learning Kingdom who sited this set of pages for their Cool Facts Award on April 8, 1997. We rocommend you visit the Learning Kingdom! \n\n\n\n To visit to Bob Barrett's Homepage\n Return to Slinky homepage
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Assuming you design it so the people don't reach terminal velocity, and you reverse the acceleration safely at the bottom, it just gives you a few more seconds of free fall.  Calculate the fall time and compare it to the fall time for a more traditional amusement ride.  Not enough difference to be worth implementing.
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The one that is stretched tightly would probably be more likely to break.   The lack of tension would cause the rope to reach its breaking point sooner.
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if you step on it it might just posobly die
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1. Put it underneath the trampoline\n    a. jump in it\n    b. do belly flops on it\n    c. do seat drops on it\n2. Make a jumping course through it\n3. Play tag\n4. Try to avoid it, but don´t really try\n···the best is the trampoline···
560225
Who watches an escalator when it is operating?  Why would you watch it when it wasn't operating?
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You could tie a long string or ribbon on it and let it go.  At some point, the balloon will stop rising.  Cut the string just where it touches the floor.  Neutral bouyancy achieved!
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DO NOT do that!  It would be dangerous (creates a fire hazard), and one of the protective devices (fuse or circuit breaker) would probably trip under load regardless.
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i think it can freeze the motors inside and damage them, if it frezes then you would not be able to move them
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Flipping over wouldn't be a problem; the asker is building a magnetic monopole on the ping-pong ball.  \nIs this possible?  Check the ref.website and find "Monopole Attempt".  They say that the other pole would leak out through the spaces between the magnets.  \nSomewhere I heard there's only room for one monopole in the universe.  \nWould the first person to do it be a monopolist?
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The only way you are going to know for sure is to try it.\n\nIt will be interesting to make some predictions about what will happen. Will it be smaller, less bouncey, more squashy, etc.? And Why.
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It depends on the acceleration of the elevator.\n\nIf the elevator acceletation is same as the earths gravity then weight will be zero.