Objects in Microgravity #1--"Cork Ball in Water" Behavior
1,590 views · Published 25 December 2018 · 1:17 · Indexed 2 October 2026
Channel: Portland Community College · 2018 · Education
This video shows the behavior of a cork ball in water in free fall and therefore under near-zero gravity conditions. In this video, the experiment is played back in real-time/100% speed and then twice at slowed-time/20% speed. Toby Dittrich is a physics instructor at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon and has conducted a variety of experiments in cooperation with the Dryden Drop Tower laboratory and facility. The DDT is 31.1m (102 ft.) in height and provides approximately 2.1 seconds of micro-gravity conditions inside the drop box. The experiments generally consist of objects being "dropped" in the DDT that are recorded by a high-speed videocamera in the drop box. For more information about the DDT, go to: https://www.pdx.edu/dryden-drop-tower/ For Toby Dittrich's entire "Drop Tower Physics" playlist, go to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRfHZ9wXKs6eiIsULzz-lx20a3Ryq0sHk This video produced by the Video Production Unit at Portland Community College: https://www.pcc.edu/video-production Michael Annus: Producer and editor
