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Quickly bring your finger down
hard on the end of the dollar bill.
It will whip out with your finger,
leaving the coins behind!Objects that aren’t moving, like the
coins in this trick, will stay still
unless they are pushed or pulled.This is because of something called inertia.
The coins are pulled a little bit by the dollar bill,
but it moves so quickly that they’re not pulled
for long enough to topple them off the bottle.3
The bill
slides away,
but the coins
don’t move!Move your
finger down as
fast as you can.SCIENCE
PART...
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Magicians use the principle of
inertia to pull tablecloths out
from under plates and bowls!HI
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