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Beakman sings a song about Isaac Newton and inertia and pretends to be Newton to explain his Laws of Motion. To demonstrate the Laws of Motion, Beakman does an experiment where he has eggs on cardboard tubes resting on a piece of cardboard over cups. He asks what would happen if the broom moves the cardboard. He hits the cardboard only, the tubes and cardboard are moved, and gravity pulls the eggs down into the cups.
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