This is a video of the tablecloth trick, which I was able to do on a boring Saturday morning. I set up my experiment using some of my parent's dishes and my sister's pink blanket. I was able to pull my sister's blanket out from under a plate and saucer with coffee cup. This is because of Newton's first law. Newton's first law states that any object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by a net force and vice versa. This is also known as inertia. When I began my experiment, the inertia of the plate and saucer allow the tablecloth to be pulled from under it without taking the two objects with it. Because both objects are at rest, they have a tendency to remain at rest because they do not have a net force. I thought that it was really cool that we can apply what we learned in physics to different tricks we see in real life. Now, I know the true causes of the tablecloth trick.
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