Zero G Experiments on Earth: The Bremen Drop Tower

In Bremen, Germany, there s a tower more than a hundred metres high: it s called the Fallturm, or the Drop Tower. If you want a costeffective way to test an experiment in microgravity and your project can survive some pretty strong deceleration then this might well be a good place for you. And then there s the Thank you to all the team at the Drop Tower More info: This video has an error: I oversimplified the calculations for freefall and ended up quantising them. Yes, the speed increases by 10m, s, but that doesn t mean it travels 10m in the first second. It d travel 5m, then 15, then 25, and so on. Several physicists reviewing that script didn t notice the error, either All corrections on this channel can be found at Behind the Scenes on the Park Bench: DoP, Camera: Matt Gray unnamedculprit Editor: Michelle Martin mrsmmartin I m at on Twitter at on Facebook at and on Snapchat and Instagram as tomscottgo