This morning, I was at the "new" dog park, assisted with the excellent minion that I like to call "daddy". Our experiment consists of 3 Hi bounce balls (extremely good for stoopidly high bounces that make mum swear) and a rather large storm drain with a gapping hole on the side.
Anyhow, the whole experimental procedure is as follows:
- Make the minion throw the ball for an innocent game of fetch
- Retrieve the ball a few times, so the minion becomes relaxed and throws the ball further
- When the perfect long throw arrives, catch it (easy...) and rush towards the storm drain before the minion's interception
- Drop the ball in the gapping hole on the side of the storm drain
- Look down to check if the ball floats or sink and tadaaa
- Last but not least make sure that the assistant concur with the result of the test
Obviously every good scientific study requires multiple replication of the experiment, so I carried out this three times... :P
I do apologise for the lack of pictorial illustrations, the minion was too busy avoiding the drops of rain... but I whipped up this little drawing for better understanding...
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| scientific hypothesis and experimental design |
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| experimental procedure and observations |
And just so you know, when the ball goes into the big hole, the Hi bounce ball floats but then disappear... dunno where?!
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