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The Tablecloth Trick Instructional VideoThe Tablecloth Trick Instructional Video
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The Tablecloth Trick

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You might not be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but you could certainly pull a tablecloth out from under a place setting! Display inertia and Newton's first law of motion for your future physicists or magicians by performing this trick. The dinnerware at rest, will stay at rest.

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newton's laws of motion, sir isaac newton, force, friction, inertia

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force, inertia, newton's laws of motion, friction, science

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