{"id":1672,"date":"2024-09-02T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:37:57","slug":"pop-corn-and-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2024\/09\/02\/pop-corn-and-density\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop corn and Density"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0You will need:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A plastic container with a lid<\/li>\n<li>Unpopped pop corn<\/li>\n<li>A large marble<\/li>\n<li>A ping pong ball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1673\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/09\/popcornfroen-vaexa-din-egen-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/09\/popcornfroen-vaexa-din-egen.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/09\/popcornfroen-vaexa-din-egen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Implementation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Put the ping pong ball at the bottom of the container.<\/li>\n<li>The fill the container about 2\/3 of the way with corn. \u00a0Make sure that the ping pong ball stays at the bottom. \u00a0Then place the marble on top.<\/li>\n<li>Put the lid on and shake it up! \u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter if you shake it up and down or side to side\u2026 Just shake! \u00a0It won\u2019t take much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ta da! \u00a0The marble has turned into a ping pong ball!<\/p>\n<h2>The Science<\/h2>\n<p>The ping pong ball is much less dense than the corn, so it quickly makes its way to the top of the corn. \u00a0The marble is more dense than the corn, so it sinks down into the corn. \u00a0This is the same concept as the ping pong ball floating in water \u2013 the ball is less dense than the water, so it floats. \u00a0Everyone expects a ping pong ball to float in water, but the way it behaves in the corn is really fascinating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0You will need: A plastic container with a lid Unpopped pop corn A large marble A ping pong ball Implementation Put the ping pong ball at the bottom of the container. The fill the container about 2\/3 of the way with corn. \u00a0Make sure that the ping pong ball stays at the bottom. \u00a0Then place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2024\/09\/02\/pop-corn-and-density\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dPop corn and Density\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}