Can I lift a bottle of sand with a

chopstick?
Done by:samagna Kiran
  1) Enough sand to fill a medium sized plastic bottle.
 2) Pencil or chopstick
Materials  3) Funnel to fet sand into the bottle
required  4) Medium sized plastic or glass bottle.
 5) A scoop to get sand to the funnel.
  1)Pour sand an into a bowl for easy access.
 2) Fill sand into the bottle into the bottle.
 3) Scoop Sand and pour into funnel that is already
placed in the opening of the funnel.
 4) Bang the bottle gently on the table to settle the sand.
 5) Continue until mostly full.
Procedure  6) Place the chopstick into the bottle.
 7) Work it into the Sand, gently banging the bottle to
get the chopstick worked well into the sand.
 8) Once worked into the Sand grab the chopstick and
try lift the bottle.
 9) Observe the wonder.
  I am able to pick up the bottle of
Conclusion Sand.
  Friction is a force we experience every day. We can’t see it.
So we tend not to notice it.
 Friction is the force that opposes the movement of one
substance against another. In this case, we had Sand and a
chopstick. As the sand sits in the bottle, there are air
pockets around most grains, which prevents friction. As we
push the chopstick into the bottle, the grains of sand settle
Analysis close to one another eliminating most of the air pockets.
Once this happens, the frictional force overwhelms the sand
and so the sand will push against the chopsticks. In fact the
grains are pushing so forcefully, they create a force that
causes the chopstick to become stuck enabling me to pick up
the bottle of sand .