Soap Powered Boat Experiment
In Atal Tinkering Labs ATL | No commentThe movement of the soap powered boat has combination of three principles. Surface Tension 1) All liquids have a little thing scientist call surface tension! Water molecules are strongly attracted to each other and stick close together. This creates a strong but flexible “skin” on the water’s surface, which is able to support small insects and materials like our paper boat on their surface. 2) Isaac Newton’s third law of motion says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The movement of the soap provides a ‘pushing force’ backward into the water surface as the…