Toy Concept 3: The Spinning Ball
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What is the Physical Principle underlying the toy?
- Introduce Centrifugal Force to the child
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What age grou pis the tou designed for?
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How does the toy work/ how does the child play with the toy?
- There are three balls in the cup. First, you just hold the handle, and start to spin it. The faster you spin it the higher the balls will go. And the goal of the game is to let these three balls to go into the three different holes. Of course, if you spin it to hard, the ball would fly out and hit someone. And that's not good. Sounds fun huh? Get one for your child now!
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Carnegie Mellon University
Bert Chou, Feb 7, 2008