Scale #3: Falling Fruit and Buoyancy

So, size matters… except when it doesn’t!! A great way to demonstrate this contradiction (or either concept, separately) is to make fruit explode. We like to do this by dropping it from a considerable height. We also can show this with buoyancy — does it matter how much mass you have of the same material? Tags: Little Shop of Physics, Colorado State University, Brian Jones, Physics, K-12