

String (2 pieces of string each 2+ feet long).JUMP TO SECTION: Instructions | Video Tutorial | How it Works Supplies Needed In addition to a short demo video of the experiment, below you’ll find everything you need to try it yourself including the science of why it works, other ideas to test the concept, and more simple air pressure experiments to try.īe sure to hypothesize what you expect to happen to the ping pong balls before you conduct the experiment and let us know if you were right!

This simple air pressure experiment is fascinating and might leave you scratching your head and wondering how it works, but the good news you won’t have to wonder for long! Air is all around us, but because we can’t “see” it, we often don’t realize it’s power and how it affects objects.
