Title

Physics in a Glitter Ball

Authors

Walter Trikosko, Stephen F Austin State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

Maui Toys' Water Bouncer (Fig. 1) is a water‐filled ball containing glitter. Buy one and put it on your desk and students can't keep their hands off of it. Pitch the ball in the air giving it a quick spin. When you catch it you will see a sparkling vortex. Twist the ball around different ways and the angular momentum of the fluid keeps the axis of the glitter vortex fixed in one direction.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3543588

Comments

This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in

Trikosko, W. (2011). Physics in a Glitter Ball. The Physics Teacher, 49(2), 110–111. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3543588

‌and may be found at https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3543588

Repository Citation

Trikosko, Walter, "Physics in a Glitter Ball" (2011). Faculty Publications. 5.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/physicsandastronomy_facultypubs/5