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In a lab full of fancy science equipment, Wadsworth and colleagues could test this idea using a uniaxial press to apply a constant speed to a carafe full of coffee and water rather than its normal use to test soil compaction.

With the idea that this is the perfect home-brewed science, the team developed the equation. The researchers calculate that the force is 32 N. Admittedly, this Newscriptster had not yet had enough coffee to work through the complex math when we talked, but Wadsworth was well into his day and well into his caffeine.

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Learn about acceleration and calculate Barbie's final velocity. Have students identify how this experiment illustrates Newton's Second Law of Motion. What popular toy does Lorie Gifford use to teach her class principles of physics?

What do the teams of students have to do with their dolls? What is the objective of each team's project? What do the students learn from this activity? Do you think this is a good way to illustrate some of the principles of physics?

Point out to students that all objects accelerate toward Earth at a rate of 9. This means that for every second that the object falls, the object's downward velocity increases by 9. Have students find the velocity of Barbie falling at each second. What is Barbie's final velocity? What is mass? Inform students that Newton's Second Law of Motion states: "The acceleration of an object depends on the mass of an the object and the amount of force applied.

Ask: How do you think Barbie's mass affects the acceleration?