{"id":910,"date":"2013-01-20T08:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?page_id=910"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:13","slug":"puzzler-6-bottle-and-coin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp2-3-science\/term-2-puzzlers\/puzzler-6-bottle-and-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzler #6. Bottle and Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The video clip below, taken from Youtube demonstrates a well-known party trick.&nbsp;A coin is placed on a card and placed over the mouth of a bottle. &nbsp;Watch the video to see what happens when the card is flicked away with a finger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Dime in a bottle trick,..\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYOvqfvKnj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the question is: Why did the coin drop into the bottle and not fly off with the card?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 25.55555534362793px\">Newton&#8217;s first law of motion, inertia, motion, rest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video clip below, taken from Youtube demonstrates a well-known party trick.&nbsp;A coin is placed on a card and placed over the mouth of a bottle. &nbsp;Watch the video to see what happens when the card is flicked away with a finger. And the question is: Why did the coin drop into the bottle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2538,"parent":891,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-910","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-eG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions\/4143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}