Advanced Search
Ballistic Pendulum
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: The Alan Nursall Experience
- Grade Level: General
- Subjects: Science and Nature
- Produced By: Exploration Production Inc.
- Year: 2011
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 4m 34s
Add to Cart Request Free Online Full Length Preview
Add to Wish List/Quote Builder
Email a friend Share on Facebook
Other products from this series
Colour Changing Liquids
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan does a little magic using the pH scale and clock reactions.
Vibrobots
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how to build cool critters with your cellular phone.
Vibration and Sound
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how vinyl records and record players create sound.
Echo
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how to measure distance with a stopwatch.
Forest Fires
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates the most effective way to put out a forest fire.
Crash Rescue
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan shows us the specialized tools and safety precautions used by firefighters when they respond to an accident involving hybrid vehicles.
Tidal Bore
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan offers up a tidal twist to river rafting in Nova Scotia.
Lobster Traps
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan explores the art of building lobster traps.
Pyrotechnic Pumpkin Carving
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how a science guy carves a pumpkin - with explosive results!
Purple Haze
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan performs some Rock N Roll Science with exothermic reactions.
Electric Rainbow
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan recreates a natural phenomenon via electrochemistry.
Turtle Sex
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes on a quest to collect a sperm sample from a Blanding's turtle.
Fundy Tide
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates what causes tides and why the Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world.
Bad Taste
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan shows us how our other senses affect our sense of taste.
Laser Beam Guitar
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan rocks out as Paul Langois plays a photonic guitar that turns laser light into music.
Backyard Rink
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan uses science to figure out the best way to build a backyard rink.
Thermal Dynamics
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan shows us why the snow coaches on the Athabasca Glacier now use rubber tires instead of steel tracks.
Switchable Solvents
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes to Queen's University to learn how green chemistry can make a difference in cleaning up pollution.
Will It Float?
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan is at the University of Toronto where he's dropping the ball on density... Literally!
Bimetallic Strip
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan shows you how fusing two metals together can influence your everyday life.
Cake, Bread and Whipped Cream
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates different ways we can get bubbles into food.
Sap and Syrup
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan heads to Horton Tree Farm to learn the science behind making maple syrup.
Aerodynamics
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how air affects moving objects.
Humpty Dumpty's Shell
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how Humpty Dumpty could have survived his fall, if he had fallen the proper way.
Flying Carpet
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan wows the crowd with his magic flying carpet, otherwise known as a hovercraft.
Goldilocks
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan uses thermodynamics to prove the story of the three bears and their porridge.
Rapunzel's Hair
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan conducts an experiment to test the tensile strength of human hair.
Defying Gravity
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan performs some magic tricks at Magnetic Hill, including rolling cans uphill.
Smart Teacher
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan tries out an educational game that adjusts its skill level depending on the player's reactions.
Sno-Moto
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan helps with the conversion of a dirtbike into a snow machine.
Tablelands
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan ventures to Gros Morne National Park to explore some unique landscape.
East Coast Orientation
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan shows tourists at Cape Spear how to create a working compass out of household objects in mere seconds.
Anodising
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates what you get when you mix one of the world's strongest metals with soda pop.
Magnetic Hill
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan is in Moncton, New Brunswick, to explain why cars appear to coast up the famous hill.
Navy Weapons
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes out to sea onboard HMCS Montréal to learn more about the weapons on the frigate.
Big Backup
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan uses geometry and physics to explain why it's easier to back up with a long trailer than it is with a short trailer.
Acetylene Cannon
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan is back at Whittamore's Farm to demonstrate how to turn your garbage can into a rocket
Bottle Rockets
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan is back at Whittamore's Farm to show off his upgraded bottle rocket.
Hydrogen Explosion
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan takes one of his favourite experiments to Whittamore's Farm where he can kick it up a notch.
Nitro Dragsters
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes to the dragstrip to see what kind of explosive fuel launches these 8000-horsepower machines down the track.
Top Fuel Launch
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes to the dragstrip to measure the power generated by the launch of an 8000-horsepower Top Fuel Dragster
Top Fuel Engine
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes to the dragstrip to see how the drivetrain of an 8000-horsepower Top Fuel Dragster is assembled.
SNOLAB
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan goes deep underground to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory to see where neutrinos are captured and studied.
Snow Plow
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan gets behind the controls of a snow plow and learns the proper techniques for building a road from scratch.
Tire Traction
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan demonstrates how tires work and how traction is improved by means of treads.
Rig Skid
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan gets instructions on regaining control of a rig that has spun out on black ice with packed snow.
Navy Engineers
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan visits the engine rooms of the HMCS Montréal and learns how to clean an oil centrifuge.
Navy Rescues
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan participates in 'man overboard' and 'fire' rescue drills onboard the HMCS Montréal.
Navy Promotion
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan gets promoted to ordinary seaman in the Royal Canadian Navy.
MIG Welding
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan receives instructions in the art of metal inert gas welding while explaining the science and chemistry behind it.
Pendulum
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan explains why the pendulum is one of the greatest mechanical advances in history, and he gives a demonstration of a pendulum and its kinetic…
Making Beer
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan visits a brewery to learn about the chemistry involved in making beer.
Titanic Cold Water Dunk
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
In an experiment designed to imitate the conditions under which the Titanic passengers might have found themselves, we learn about muscle function…
Tree Harvesting
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2011
Alan visits a tree harvesting operation and learns about selective logging.
Oyster Biomechanics
By Exploration Production Inc. - 2012
Alan shucks some oysters to see what makes an oyster an oyster
Related Products
Operation Ouch! - S06E01
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab to explain what is happening when you crack your knuckles. They then head outside to demonstrate just how much force…
Operation Ouch! - S06E02
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab for some explosive experiment to illustrate what happens in your eustachian tube when your ears pop. In Operation…
Operation Ouch! - S06E03
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab with a homunculous to explain what sensory neurons are, where they are, and what they do. In Operation Takeover, the…
Operation Ouch! - S06E04
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab with a set of cow's lungs to show you why and how you cough. In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the…
Operation Ouch! - S06E05
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab to conduct a terrific tooth testing test to demonstrate why you have different types of teeth in your mouth. In…
Operation Ouch! - S06E06
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab with the Dr. Xand Patented Eyebrow Eliminator to demonstrate why humans have eybrows. In Operation Takeover, the…
Operation Ouch! - S06E07
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab to demonstrate how brain's neuroplasticity, grey matter, white matter all come into play when you are learning new…
Operation Ouch! - S06E08
By Serious Lunch Ltd - 2017
The Doctors head into the lab to demonstrate how your blood flows through valves in a one-way system throughout your body. In Operation Takeover…