anti-inductive situations: forum for week of 17 October

I'm not sure if this is a good example. When you drop a ball down a spiral tube and let it slide out at the bottom end, it may not be intuitive (especially for a child that has not taken a course in physics) that the ball does not continue to spiral in a circular motion, but follow a straight path tangent to the point where it is released from the end of the tube.

I suppose another example could be that it is not intuitive for someone to think that when dropping a lead ball from the top of a very tall building that the ball would reach a terminal velocity in which it no longer accelerates. The person may think that the ball will continue to accelerate until it reaches the ground.