When you drop a Slinky, what falls to the ground first: the top, the bottom, or everything all at once? Derek Muller, who created the popular YouTube channel Veritasium, first took on this puzzling ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Mike Wheatland of the University of Sydney explains the gravity-defying physics of a falling Slinky. Mike Wheatland is an associate professor of physics at the ...

And now, for your Monday morning moment of zen, Slinkys in slow motion. Whether it’s dropped from eye level, or from the roof of a building, the bottom of a fully extended slinky will appear to hover ...

What happens when your kids won’t give you a turn on the Wii? Simple. You take their LEGO bricks and their slinky and do some physics. I will keep this simple. Basically, I created a slinky holder out ...

It's a childhood toy that we have probably all seen - but watch it in slow-motion, and the Slinky appears to defy the laws of physics. Veritasium.org, a site which wants to share the wonders of ...

What happens if you hold a slinky at the top end, let it extend, and then drop it? Here’s a video setting up the problem: OK, so what do you think? Now watch this video to get the answer: Were you ...

In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Sydney's Mike Wheatland examines the gravity-defying physics of a falling Slinky. Wheatland is an associate professor of physics at the University of ...

Slinky’s, one of the cosmos’ perennial enigmas, has one amazing propert you’ve probably never noticed. But that’s okay. Our mortal eyes aren’t quick enough to notice—but this slow-mo camera is. It ...

Explore the phenomenon of acceleration due to gravity with the slinky collapse in this engaging science blog explanation. Were you correct? I'm proud to say I figured out what would happen, and even ...