A graduate student, foreground, is greeted by a person playing the role of a store employee, background, in a simulated shoplifting experiment in Takamatsu, Oct. 22, 2025. (Mainichi/Masahiko Sasaki) ...

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A suspended apparatus used to minimize friction during the experiment. The heavier brass cylinder and lighter ping-pong ball collide repeatedly against the transparent wall, reproducing 31 collisions ...

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For this project I show how to make make a pendulum wave, an interesting science/physics experiment where a series of pendulums is measured so that each one moves slightly faster than the one before ...

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