Wrecking Ball Science - Swinging Bowling Ball - Cool Science Experiment

Why is Steve asking our engineers if he can hang a 16 bowling ball from the ceiling? It's a lesson in the Laws of Motion... and Becky Ditchfield is the subject.
About Steve Spangler Science...
Steve Spangler is a celebrity teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. Spangler is probably best known for his Mentos and Diet Coke geyser experiment that went viral in 2005 and prompted more than 1,000 related KZbin videos. Spangler is the founder of www.SteveSpanglerScience.com, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of science toys, classroom science demonstrations, teacher resources and home for Spangler's popular science experiment archive and video collection. Spangler is a frequent guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show where he takes classroom science experiments to the extreme. Check out his pool filled with 2,500 boxes of cornstarch!
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Additional Information:
On the education side, Spangler started his career as a science teacher in the Cherry Creek School district for 12 years. Today, Steve travels extensively training teachers in ways to make learning more engaging and fun. His hands-on science boot camps and summer institutes for teachers inspire and teach teachers how to prepare a new generation for an ever-changing work force. Over the last 15 years, he has also made more than 500 television appearances as an authority on hands-on science and inquiry-based learning.
On the business side, Spangler is the founder and CEO of Steve Spangler Science, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of educational toys and kits and hands-on science training services for teachers. The companys unique business strategies and viral creations have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Wired and TIME Magazine where online readers voted Steve Spangler #18 in the Top 100 Most Influential People of the Year for 2006 (what were they thinking?). You'll find more than 140 Spangler created products available online at SteveSpanglerScience.com and distributed to toy stores and mass-market retailers worldwide.
Spangler joined NBC affiliate 9News in 2001 as the science education specialist. His weekly experiments and science segments are designed to teach viewers creative ways to make learning fun. His now famous Mentos Geyser experiment, turning 2-liter bottles of soda into erupting fountains, became an Internet sensation in September 2005 when thousands of people started posting their own Mentos explosions on KZbin.com.
As founder of SteveSpanglerScience.com, Spangler and his design team have developed more than 140 educational toys and science-related products featured by mass-market retailers like Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R' Us, Discovery Channel Stores and over 1,400 independent specialty toy stores. His educational science catalog and on-line business offers more than a thousand science toys and unique learning resources. Recently, Spangler has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, WIRED, the History Channel, Food Network and TIME Magazine where on-line readers voted Steve Spangler #18 in the Top 100 Most Influential People of the Year for 2006.
His recent appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres Show have taught viewers how to blow up their food, shock their friends, create mountains of foam, play on a bed of nails, vanish in a cloud of smoke and how to turn 2,500 boxes of cornstarch and a garden hose into a swimming pool of fun.

[@RJSelvan]

I've seen this so many times on your show and in my physics classes but I never get tired of it. Good stuff Steve. Request. Do some stuff with a vandergraph generator. This is about the time where people are starting to do electricity in they classes.

[@stefstuf2]

2:21 'Oh I tried to kiss it!' I LOVE THIS LADY!!

[@ianco100]

I wish i could meet you in person steve spangler! I Love science and love how you create experiments!

[@JadeGreenKitty]

Love these!!! Once again though.... why didn't they do all of these experiments back when I was in school? (the 70's) I think the teachers would have been able to "grab" a lot more children into the field of Science!! :) Well done Mr. Spangler :)

[@warriorkyle1]

Awesome!!!!

[@MrNintendo]

that feeling that you know the ball won't hit the laddy but you think it may hit her

[@StephenKearsey]

Is it normal to flinch just watching this? lol

[@nick9150]

i love SpanglerScienceTV!

[@ThePokeCardCollector]

Will you do something on this news program about the Leidenfrost Effect? That would be awesome for you to do!! :)

[@Italian_Rock]

hmm didnt i already watch this kind of..am i that big of fan? hahaha

[@Kamstriv]

HAHAHAHHA I could not stop laughing watching her face!!!

[@TheDreamingStars]

cool

[@WierdAzzNorm]

@SpanglerScienceTV, Can you do a video on Gallium? Gallium is similar to Mercury but not dangerous at all, so could you please do a Gallium vid?

[@magicbeaver321]

ahhahahahahaha "oop, i tried to kiss it." (at the end)

[@DST426]

Did she enjoy having the ball in her face? LOL Anyway, that's awesome! I'm so going try this, but my face is going to be behind a metal wall...

[@gravemakerX]

i would run if i saw that comming.

[@infernape425]

you did this the other day with the other newscaster and first

[@C0nv3rsE]

that chick have guts, no kidding about it

[@TheHumanSuitcase]

I wanna try this so bad! But I think it would take 50 tries before I stop flinching

[@BlackMasterJoe89]

She did it better than the last guy, he backed up!

[@PureInsanity]

This is the tenth time he did this experiment

[@chickenoncheese]

finally someone who trusts him

[@thunderbird1]

hello spanglerscience...we meet again!

[@FlamingFruitcake]

watch her sneeze

[@suprguy]

finally some tristan him not like that old man before

[@mmshinyy]

thats soo scary

[@Wozzup1223]

He's already done this...

[@Roshkin]

I tried this in my physics class, but I flinched. :(

[@Lowensteiner]

2:20 spits the ball ?????????????

[@amberjohnson7347]

My school did this'

[@MrTjom96]

And ironically enough you´re not first :)

[@mandm4693]

wait but if you put 100 dollars in a bank account you get more later, intrest

[@HelloSWD]

why arent you my teacher?

[@AnySub]

I hate people comment with "first" soo.... first :D !

[@05you2]

First comment! This is my first first comment ever!

[@WhiteCloudsBlueSkies]

sorry

[@ilobdell]

You accidentally a word.

[@4l3XuS]

she was trying to kiss it....

[@wwfmbc3]

change the intro

[@8BIGNIC8]

i am drunk

[@TehDoylee]

hurr first