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Go to topicScreen shot from "Whoosh bottle, Newton's laws and rockets - classroom demonstration video, VP01".
This video, part of a new series of ESA teaching resources called "Teach with space", shows an experiment that can be performed by teachers in the classroom to demonstrate Newton's laws, especially action-reaction, and their application to rocketry.