Mirjam Sophia Glessmer

Dropping slinky

The spring first pulls together, and only then falls to the ground.

I saw this video of a falling slinky from Veritasium some time ago and ever since wanted to film it myself, so here we go:

To understand why it falls the way it does, go look at Veritasium’s explanation.

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